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#SENSORIUM2019 Conference

Midwestern Sensory Biology Conference, held at the University of Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaing, on Oct. 26-27, 2019

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Please save the date for Oct. 26 (noon) to Oct. 27 (noon) 2019 to join us for #SENSORIUM2019 ! Featuring a public keynote presentation by Prof. Cassie Stoddard of Princeton University. 

We are on Twitter!! 
@Sensorium_2019

Registration is FREE and OPEN. Please complete the Registration Form here: https://tinyurl.com/Sensorium2019 

Funding for the conference is supported by a grant for regional meetings from the American Society of Naturalists. Thank you ASN! If you're not a member yet, please join the Society here, publishers of The American Naturalist.

Our conference is sponsored by the Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior and by the School of Integrative Biology, as well as the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) at the University of Illinois.

We are kindly supported and hosted by the beautiful Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. 

Additional generous support for the public presentation portion of this event is provided by the Olga G. Nalbandov Lecture Funds at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.
DETAILED PROGRAM (For Abstract Book, Click here. The Password was emailed to you earlier).
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Day 1: Saturday, October 26, 2019

12:00noon    Registration, BUFFET LUNCH (open to the public)    Beckman Atrium
1:00pm    Session 1: NALBANDOV LECTURE, Prof. MC Stoddard, Princeton University    Beckman Auditorium

2:00pm    Refreshments    Beckman Atrium

2:30pm    Session 2 
2.30    Vanderelst D   Robotics models of bat echolocation
2.45    Samuel JA*, Matter SF, Rollmann SM    Changing volatile profiles may facilitate mate location and choice in the butterfly Parnassius smintheus
3.00    Abolins-Abols M*, Hauber ME   Glucocorticoid control of egg rejection in American robins
3.15    Lucas JR*, Goller B, Baumhardt P, Lovko N, Fernandez-Juricic E    Wind turbines and the auditory system of golden and bald eagles
3.30    Fuller RC* and Mitchem LD    The Applications of Aquatic Sensory Ecology
3.45    Eliason CM*, Maia R, Parra JL, Shawkey MD    Signal evolution and morphological complexity in hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae)
4.10    Kendzel MJ* and Guerra PA     Gravity Mediated Body Orientation in Monarch Butterflies
4.25    Luro AB*, Hauber ME      Visual acuity and egg spatial chromatic contrast predict egg rejection behavior of American robins
4.40    Goté JT, Butler PM, Zurek DB, Buschbeck EK, Morehouse NI*    How Jumping Spiders Retain High Visual Performance Across Development
4.55    Goller B*, Fernandez-Juricic E    Visual system properties of Anna’s hummingbirds (Calypte anna)

5:10-6:00pm    Poster Session 1, Refreshments    Beckman Atrium


Day 2: Sunday October 27, 2019

8:30am    Breakfast    Beckman Atrium
9:00am    Session 3: PLENARY LECTURE, Matt Toomey, University of Tulsa    Beckman Auditorium

10:00am    Session 4
10.00    Elke K. Buschbeck*, Jenni Hassert and Madeline Owens    Establishment of correctly focused eyes may not require visual input in arthropods 
10.15    Strickland LR, Windsor D, Caceres CE    Exploring color variation with predators and chemistry
10.30    Fialko K*, Price T    Achromatic signaling in dark, dense environments — case study of Horonis fortipes.
10.45    Gray SM      Muddy waters: Fish behavior and vision in the Anthropocene
11.00    Pak A, Ryu E, Li C, Chubykin AA*    Perception of illusory contours in mouse visual cortex
11.15    Fernandez-Juricic E*, Werner SJ, DeLiberto ST, Baumhardt PE     Birds use achromatic cues linearly and chromatic cues non-linearly to avoid distasteful food 

11:30am    Poster Session 2, Refreshments    Beckman Atrium

12:30pm    Adjourn  

Poster presentations (*presenter): 

Antonson ND*, Hauber ME, Mommer BC, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM    Physiological Responses of Host Parents to Rearing an Avian Brood Parasite: An Experimental Study
Bethany L. Williams*, Tiffany L. Atkinson, Richard C. Oldham, Taylor K. Hrabak, Lauren M. Pintor, Suzanne M. Gray    Linking vision, color signals, and mate choice in an African cichlid
Chaney M*, Baumhardt P, Goller B, Harris D, LaTour C, Lunn R, Trapp R, Fernandez-Juricic E    Are birds visually constrained from seeing buildings in front of them? Implications for bird-window collisions
Harris D*, Blumenthal A, Fernandez-Juricic E    Can lasers injure the avian eye when used as bird-deterrents?
HJ Tiarks*, SM Gray    Testing the role of turbidity on the visual sensitivity of an African cichlid fish
(Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae)
Hood KE*, Hurley LM    Suppression of male courtship by female calls is resistant to increase in auditory midbrain serotonin
Hrabak TK*, Nieman CL, Gray SM    See no evil, smell no evil: Predator avoidance in the face of harmful algal blooms
Kim CR*, Hauber ME    Self-Referent Egg Rejection in American Robins
LaTour C*, Chubykin A, Fernandez-Juricic E.    A Tool for Probing Avian Retinal Physiology and Circuitry
Lawson SL*, Enos JK, Hauber ME    The type of threat to the nest predicts defense responses in hosts of avian brood parasites
Li D*, Zhang Z, Hauber ME    Egg-spot matching of the oriental reed warbler by parasitic common cuckoos: effects of host nest availability and egg rejection
Milam OE*, Marsat G    Mapping the electric shadow of conspecifics in the early electrosensory pathway
Nathan J.*    Exploring Eye Morphology of Danaus plexippus
Rathore S*, Lavin R, Cook T and Buschbeck E    A comparative analysis of eye development in arthropods
Scharf HM*, Suarez A, Reeve HK, Hauber ME    The Evolution of Conspecific Acceptance Threshold Models
Stuart SH*, Wcislo WT, Robinson GE   Brain transcriptomic differences associated with colony defense in the stingless bee, Tetragonisca angustula
Sung JY*, Morehouse NI    Selection for Distinctiveness in Chinese Opera Masks
Taiyelolu Owoyemi* Kehinde Owoyemi*, Gaston Risi , Chance Bainbridge, Andres G. vidal -Gadea    High throughput analysis of magnetic orientation using the nematode C.elegans
Trapp R*, Fernandez-Juricic E    What social cues do animals pay attention to? An eye-tracking approach.

  
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Stay tuned for more information. Here's a link to last year's SENSORIUM conference!! 
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