News
Increase in amount of travel awards
October 5th, 2011AMS Student Member Travel Awards for SICB 2012
Late-breaking news!
Amount of travel awards increased by 50%. The amount of each of the six available awards has been increased from $100 to $150. If you are a student presenter of either an oral or poster session at SICB, Charleston, January 3-7, 2012, check http://amicros.org/?page_id=415 for application instructions.
AMS 2011 Summer Student Research Awards
August 7th, 2011Caroline Harper
Brown University
Project title: The Morphology of the Brush-Like Papillae in a Nectar-Feeding Bat, Glossophaga soricina.
Fredrick Larabee
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Project title: Comparative study of ant mandible mechanical properties and performance.
Nathan Farrar
University of Alberta
Project title: Visualizing the structure of primary cilia in the osculum of the demosponge, Ephydatia muelleri.
AMS Annual Best Contributed Paper Award
August 7th, 2011A certificate and monetary prize will be awarded for the Best Contributed Paper presented orally by a student at the Annual Meeting (SICB/AMS). Current students or graduates who have received a degree not more than 12 months prior to the meeting are eligible to compete for the awards. The work presented must be original and must be carried out principally by the student presenting the paper. Membership in AMS is not a requirement.
AMS Summer Student Research Awards
April 29th, 2010Shanna Hanes
Department of Biology, Auburn University
Project title: Elevated autophagic activity during hyperthermic stress in the tropical sea anemone, Aiptasia pallida: a novel bleaching mechanism
Joey Pakes
Department of Integrative Biology, UC-Berkeley
Project title: Investigation of chemosymbionts in the anchialine cave crustaceans Speleonectes c.f. tulumensis (Remipedia) and Typhlatya sp. (Eumalacostraca).