The current ABS 2026 In-Person Meeting program is listed below. Please be sure to reference this page regularly as program changes are expected up until the meeting.
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Wednesday, July 15 |
| Time | Caprice | Pavillion | Rosewood | Rookwood | Salon H & I |
| 9:45 am - 12:00 pm | Symposium: Cultural evolution of vocal communication: behavioral mechanisms and outcomes (1) | Genetics and genomics of behavior | Applied behavior and cognition | Behavioral plasticity | Sensory pollution |
| 9:45 | Introduction
H. Williams | Genetic Architecture of Canine Behavior in a Population of Retrievers (Canis lupus familiaris)
G. Gnanadesikan, E. Bray, N. Snyder-Mackler, L. Switzer, N. Stetson, M. Toll, S. Hargrave, D. Horschler, L. Douglas, T. Block, B. Kennedy, K. Levy, M. Watowich, E. MacLean | Innovative Problem-Solving in Cornish Cross Hens
S. Prasad-Shreckengast, M. Campbell | Small, but mighty hummingbirds: high repeatability and accuracy of flight muscle capacity
É. Gagnon, J. Ríos-Orjuela, L. Pilon, P. Hentschel, A. Dansereau, P. S. Segre, R. Dakin | Artificial light at night alters flight trajectories of insects in the field
K. Otter, S. Fabian, J. Theobald, Y. Sondhi |
| 10:00 | Using Computation To Accelerate Research on the Cultural Evolution of Vocal Communication
M. Youngblood | Hot or not: Decoding the molecular and behavioral secrets of hive thermoregulation
M. Majoe, K. Tobin, C. Cook | Development and Validation of an Efficacious, Modifiable, Reinforcement-based Protocol to Crate Train Dogs
K. Berry, M. Waite, P. Artley, G. Groskreutz | Does the Right Crowd Matter? Social Niche Matching Alters Aggression in Drosophila melanogaster
G. Jayasinghe, J. Saltz | Why are animals attracted to deadly artificial light at night?
K. Ighalo, R. Dukas |
| 10:15 | A single-cell atlas of paper wasp brains highlights Kenyon cells as drivers of social behavior
C. Behrens, M. Sheehan | Pharmacological and Behavioral Interventions Do Not Alter Performance on Canine Impulse Control Tasks
E. Furlong, F. Öster, R. Singer, M. Robinson, B. Antle, K. Judy, J. Whorton | Juvenile exposure to conspecific song, but not novel noise, affects female cricket mating behavior
T. Bowers, S. Gershman | Foul Air, Foul Alarm: Air Pollution and Acoustic Antipredator Responses in Passer domesticus
K. Ronald, N. Gonzalez-Pech, E. Comer, J. Wenderski, J. Bergstrom, L. Hanlon |
| 10:30 | Echoes of a Pandemic: Soundscape Perturbations and the Cultural Evolution of Bird Song
E. Derryberry, G. Derryberry, R. Simberloff, A. Luo, D. Luther, M. Blum, J. Phillips | Evidence for repeated evolution of cave traits in the Mexican tetra Astyanax mexicanus
M. Enriquez, S. Choy, J. Kowalko, S. McGaugh | Aggression in Dogs During Grooming: Causes and Solutions
D. Roldugina | Jumping Is Mediated by Different Leg Use Strategies Across Body Size in Jumping Spiders
S. Hanson, E. Fewell, B. Jacobs, S. Tuerke, E. Weisman, J. Ramos, Z. Eslick-Persyn, L. Thompson, D. Elias | Polluted preferences: How anthropogenic volatile organic compounds influence pollinator behavior
T. Shaible, O. Peterson, S. McCabe, T. Holifield, G. Hood, A. Russel |
| 10:45 | Genomic underpinnings of behavioral courtship display elements in hybridizing Selasphorus hummingbirds
N. Najar, A. Brelsford, C. Clark, B. Myers, D. Rankin | Effects of exercise and physiological parameters on odor detection performance
L. Rothkoff, E. Aviles-Rosa, J. Schultz, M. Maughan, E. Best, N. Hall | Male-Female Dynamics and Syntactic Flexibility Influence Courtship in Habronattus pyrrithrix Spiders
A. Madabhushi, A. Kuebel, A. Spoelker, C. Baldhoff, G. Vidhya, R. Shome, T. Campbell, A. Khan, N. Morehouse | Behavioral responses to anthropogenic noise pollution in the Thai Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis)
J. Galante, S. Woragool, K. Somsiri, S. Poindexter |
| 11:00 | Inherited biases shape the cultural evolution of bird song
D. Lahti | Seasonal and Sex-Dependent Plasticity in Visual Signals and Sensory Transcriptomes of the Monarch Butterfly
D. Kutcherov, G. Hirzel, J. Goodlin, E. Westerman | Comparing and validating methods to measure dogs’ olfactory thresholds
C. Lambert, G. Cupp, S. Kane, A. Medrano, P. Prada-Tiedemann, E. Aviles-Rosa, N. Hall | Insights From a Multi-Year Study of a Population of Free-Living, Isogenic Mice
M. Zipple, M. Sheehan | The effect of sensory pollutants on mixed-species chorus dynamics
A. Ospina-Larrea, A. Bustos, J. Shin, X. Bernal |
| 11:15 | Functional Characterization of a Gustatory Receptor In Mate Choice and Activity Patterns In a Butterfly
K. Farfan-Pira, D. Ernst, E. Westerman | Sniffing Out Stress: Can structured olfactory enrichment reduce chronic stress in companion dogs?
A. Tananaeva, M. Udell | Severe Wildfires Alter Behavior-Performance Relationships in a Ground-nesting Songbird
J. Johnson, A. Sih, T. Hahn | Quiet the noise: Signal detection in noise varies among urban and rural soundscapes.
A. Velez, C. Schwartz, T. Haslett |
| 11:30 | Cultural Evolution of Complexity
H. Williams | Evolutionary biology of sociability: using genetic screens in fruit flies to study mammalian sociability
J. Rosenbaum, V. Sugunanavalan, J. Renstrom, S. Li, K. Choe, R. Dukas | Rethinking Self-Control Training in Dogs: Does Choice Enhance Performance?
R. Singer, E. Furlong, J. Grooms, S. Drake | Sex-specific tuning and plasticity of sensory systems
P. Suriyampola, J. Norris, S. Snyder, R. Preston, E. Martins | A Mechanistic Framework for Noise Effects on Animal Communication
L. Gath, M. Rhodes, K. Fowler-Finn |
| 11:45 | Gene expression correlates of social information in Drosophila melanogaster
J. Saltz, M. Hutchins, K. Hughes | Evaluating Emotional And Cognitive Domains In Dogs With And Without Chronic Pain
M. Ferrans, M. Creamer, L. Arbeeva, M. Enomoto, K. Moore, S. Mahs, V. Woods, S. Carter, K. Smith, F. Keefe, B. Hare, B. Lascelles, M. Gruen | Recovery and/or regeneration: Navigation in a nudibranch sea slug after injury
C. Tait, S. Gerges | Auditory Looming and Intensity Response to Noise Stimuli in a Cetartiodactyl
D. Adcock, D. Nowacek, B. Southall, S. Parks |
| 12:00 | Neural targets of male ejaculate proteins on female post-mating behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster
S. Potdar, T. Makhmudova, A. Schenck-Davis, S. Delbare, A. Jain, Y. Hafezi, M. Wolfner, A. Clark | Comparing Canine Detection Thresholds in Indoor vs. Outdoor Environments
M. Bower, L. Rothkoff, A. Da Fonseca, N. Hall, E. Aviles-Rosa | Sexual Selection on Social Plasticity Differs Between Alternative Types in Wild Fish Species
M. Molinari, S. Marsh-Rollo, S. Alonzo |
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Wednesday, July 15 |
| Time | Pavillion | Caprice | Rosewood | Rookwood |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Symposium: The Legacy and Impact of Zuleyma Tang-Martinez's 50 Years of Contributions to the Animal Behavior Society (1) | Symposium: Cultural evolution of vocal communication: behavioral mechanisms and outcomes (2) | Social behavior | Behavior and ecology |
| 1:30 | | Cultural evolution in birdsong through the lens of cooperation and conflict
N. Creanza, J. Yang, K. Snyder | Invasion Without Exclusion: Coexistence and Behavioral Interactions of Fox and Douglas Squirrels
C. Frausto, P. Nonacs | Session Pause |
| 1:45 | Does it matter who’s missing? Behavioral responses to partner versus peer social disruption.
S. Becker, P. Verzola-Olivio, C. McLean, K. Greening, V. Patel, M. Elson, N. Prior | Biotic and abiotic influences on dusky damselfish aggression
K. Wolfe, K. Donoho, C. Livingston, D. Varley, L. Wassink |
| 2:00 | Social partner choice impacts cooperation and fitness in Paper wasp nest-founding queens
E. Laub, N. Pinter-Wollman, E. Tibbetts | Range Wide Effects of Climate Variation on Salamander Migration Timing
S. Earl, A. Lackey |
| 2:15 | Influence of entrance on pollen patterns within the honey bee nest.
P. Prathibha | Diet as a potential mechanism for natal habitat preference induction
K. Mabry, M. Strom |
| 2:30 | Conclusions and future directions
D. Lahti | Linking Social Structure to Social Learning in Discoid Cockroaches (Blaberus discoidalis)
G. Weyman-Heller, D. Dubose, B. Rawlings, G. Vale, C. Legare, M. Monfils, D. Proctor, S. Brosnan | The influence of diet on signal reliability in a weapon-bearing insect
J. Yan, C. Salerno, N. van Meer, C. Miller |
| 2:45 | First experimental demonstration of reciprocity in food-sharing vampire bats
G. Carter | Effects of temperature on cleaner goby interaction with clients
L. Wassink, K. Wolfe, K. Donoho, C. Livingston, D. Varley |
| 3:00 | Incidental cooperation and social environment drive diverse male life histories
A. Rodrigues, R. Kilner, S. Stearns | Extreme Climate Conditions Disrupt Multimodal Sensory Behavior and Underlying Pathways
E. Martins, C. Romero-Diaz, K. Lapidario, A. Ayan, C. Gabor, S. Snyder, T. Nguyen, J. Norris, M. Suarez Rodriguez, E. Zemke, K. Mahlstede, A. Farn, B. Harvey, P. Suriyampola |
| 3:15 | End of Session | A landscape approach for quantifying the ecological causes and consequences of Common Tern aggression
K. Garlick-Ott, J. Smith, D. Lyons, G. Patricelli, E. Hull |
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Wednesday, July 15 |
| Time | Pavillion | Rosewood | Rookwood | Caprice | Salon H & I |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Symposium: The Legacy and Impact of Zuleyma Tang-Martinez's 50 Years of Contributions to the Animal Behavior Society (1) | Behavior in education | Mathematical modeling of behavior | Communication systems | Aggression, fear, and pain |
| 4:00 | | Write It to Win It: How Handwritten Notes and Second Chances Improve Success in Introductory Biology
C. Voorhees | Data processing decisions affect detection of individual variation in parrot calls
G. Smith-Vidaurre, B. Coppinger, M. Honore, E. Hobson | Drivers of Choice Overload in Gray Treefrogs
J. Tanner, T. Chou, C. Hemingway | Linking weapon quality and consistent individual differences in aggression in a weapon-bearing insect
C. Salerno, J. Yan, N. van Meer, P. Hahn, C. Miller |
| 4:15 | Ethical scicomm in today's world: training for animal behavior students and instructors
K. Hicks, B. Garramon-Merkle, R. Swenson, M. Balgopal, V. Schutte, D. Broder, R. Tinghitella | Hearing Through the Habitat: Predicting Functional Communication Range in Parids
S. Sawant, T. Freeberg, J. Lucas, K. Sieving | Cues in the mist: scent-marking behavior in Andean bears and temporal overlap with free-ranging dogs
V. Lopez Velasco, J. Cepeda Duque, C. Aguelo Henao, J. Astwood Romero, E. Valencia, R. Ortiz, D. Rodríguez | Anti-predator behavior in a group of flag-waving bugs
U. Somjee, J. Rubin, M. Ryan, J. Havird |
| 4:30 | Using Bias as a Catalyst for Connection: How to Unite Science, Subject, and Story Using a Spider Centric Lens
T. Walls, D. Elias | Understanding factors advancing breeding phenology in urban birds
C. Villalona, M. Abolins-Abols | Rapid Darkening by “Client” Fish Increases the Responsiveness of Cleaner Shrimp
D. Chang, A. Karnish, S. Ratchford, E. Caves | Female-female aggression benefits nestlings during the incubation stage in Northern House Wrens
C. Krieg |
| 4:45 | RAGs to Riches(?): Using AI Research Assistants to Generate Ethograms
P. Midford, A. Clark | Social Uncertainty Influences the Balance of Quantity and Quality of Cooperative Relationships
C. Hartman, A. Salles, G. Carter | Reversible plasticity in the communication system of the cricket Gryllus rubens.
O. Beckers | Do shrimp feel pain? Behavioral and neurochemical evidence for nociceptive integration
J. Gibbs, M. Hughes, M. Ruscio |
| 5:00 | Sub-communities increase the social efficiency of collective fanning in the European honeybee (Apis mellifera)
C. Lambert, J. Dubeck, Z. Nelson, C. Cook | Vocal performance and the social function of complex song in the Bachman’s sparrow
H. Gonzembach, R. Anderson | The Effects of Posterior Manipulation on Fear in Canis Familiaris.
K. Kleyman |
| 5:15 | Group Dynamics of V-shaped Geese Flocks
L. von Leitner | Listening for Risk and Opportunity: Social Acoustic Signals and Feeder Foraging in a Bird Community
P. Chen, K. Sieving | Cooperation vs. Conflict: Effects of Social Context on Division of Labor in a Flexibly Social Bee
B. Jones, S. Ploessl, E. Cardona, E. Cecil |
