Hi and Welcome!
The 2014 conference, our 15th, of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology will be held in New York City, USA, sponsored by CABI: the CUNY Animal Behavior Initiative, the Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York,
and New York University.
We hope that you can join us to continue the society's tradition of high quality science presented in a fast-paced conference setting by diverse participants.
This will also be a chance to catch up with friends and collaborators, and to meet brand new and smart ones, all the while exploring our home, New York City!
We are continuing to develop this web site, so please check in with us again and again!
NEWS UPDATES (subject to confirmation):
* The ISBE Travel Grants for 2014 have been announced! If you applied and have not yet received an email yet about the outcome, please contact Dr Walter Koenig, treasurer of ISBE. Thanks!
*The Animal Behavior Society annual meeting (Princeton: abs2014.princeton.edu) is now accepting abstract submissions. First come, first serve for talks!
*Double-blind peer-reviews are on their way! Thanks to everyone who is taking part in the process. You will hear from us before April 30!!!
*Frog Satellite Symposium website is now live! Attend for free if you're registered for ISBE2014.: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mbee//OFS/Frog_Symposium/Welcome.html
* We've reached 975 registered participants!!! Thank you all for completing the registration. If you have NOT yet heard from us at least via mass email (ChimpMail server), please email us right away (we've been correcting some mis-typed email addresses recently on the registration form).
* We have 922 abstracts submitted before the deadline!! Well done, ISBE2014!! Now we begin the peer-review process. If you're an ISBE member, and would like to volunteer to read and rate 10 abstracts, please send us an email!
* Confirmed! NYC scientist, Nobel-winner Prof. Martin Chalfie, of Columbia University, will give welcoming remarks at ISBE2014!
* Abstracts!! Abstract submission is now over. The abstract submission window was Feb. 1-March 15, 2014 (midnight, NYC time). We updated our registration refund policy so that you can get a full refund (minus administrative fees) until April 30, at which point you will know 1. whether you received an ISBE Travel Grant and 2. you were accepted for a talk or a poster presentation. The application deadline for the ISBE Travel Grants has now passed.
* March 1: we are now at capacity with dorm rooms; if you have not yet registered, we will no longer be accepting new requests for dorm-based accommodations. If you had registered before Feb. 28, you'll get a dorm room if you asked for it. There may be sporadic spaces available, due to cancellations, and we ask you to indicate your interest in these on the updated registration form, but there are no guarantees (we have already 100+ people on the wait list). If you'd still like to stay in a nice(!) and very economical, hostel-style facility (very!) near the Hunter campus (i.e. 15 min walk across Central Park), please read about the conference-rate on our F.A.Q page, and consider staying at the YMCA on Central Park West: http://www.ymcanyc.org/westside.
* For those interested in hotel accommodations, ISBE has partnered with the fantastic St. Giles/Tuscany Hotel and is offering a discounted rate if you book it through July 1st, 2014. Please reserve your room here using the promo code "ISBE" at checkout. The discounted rate is subject to availability and only applicable during the conference dates, July 31st-August 6th.
* The ISBE Travel Award Application is now closed. Those who applied all received an email confirming the receipt of their application (on March 1), as the deadline for the application was February 28, 2014 (midnight, NYC Time). This was 2 weeks earlier than our separate Abstract submission deadline (March 15)! The successful applicants will hear about the outcome of their application (well) before April 30. If you have any questions about the Travel Awards, please contact Prof. Walt Koenig, Treasurer of ISBE, directly: wdk4@cornell.edu
* We have updated our Daycare/Child attendance information, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.) page.
* ISBE2014's evening at the Museum! Join us for a screening of Mammas! and Q&A with Isabella Rossellini on Aug. 4, Monday evening at the American Museum of Natural History, co-hosted by the Linnean Society of New York.
* Symposia--we have many and they are exciting; consult our Program page for details!
* HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2014!!!
* Would you like to stay longer in the New York region? Consider attending the Animal Behavior Society's annual meeting at Princeton University: August 9-14, 2014: http://abs2014.princeton.edu . Special registration rates are available for ISBE participants, even if you're not a member of ABS. Unfortunately, we cannot assist with you with dormitory housing before/beyond our conference days. Fees for ABS:
* Registration is now OPEN!! Please register at our regular registration fee (available until April 30, 2014)! Registrants will be placed on a wait list for dormitory style housing at NYU's downtown campus (click for a brief description). Please visit our registration page for more details about costs, payment options, and refund rates.
* We welcome our new sponsors of the conference: Oxford University Press' Oxford Journals, Princeton University Press, and the University of Chicago Press; also, Wiley Press; please read others' and submit your own papers in CURRENT ZOOLOGY, Frontiers in Zoology, in Brain, Behavior and Evolution, in the new journal Coevolution, Royal Society Publishing (UK), and in ISBE's own society journal Behavioral Ecology!
* We have secured the site of the opening reception on the evening of Thursday, July 31, 2014: 7-9PM after hours @ Central Park Zoo.
* Our final reception and banquet is planned take place in the evening of Tuesday, August 5, 2014. We will update you here about the site of this celebration, soon; most likely we will be at the Great Hall of City College of New York!
* ISBE 2014 welcomes conference co-chair Dr James Higham and the sponsorship of New York University. Our poster sessions will take place in the penthouse glass and mirror suite on the NYU campus in historic Greenwich Village on Friday and Saturday evenings.
* We are delighted to announce that the following scientists have agreed to deliver keynote lectures at ISBE2014:
Prof. Thomas Seeley, Cornell University,
Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Tibbetts, University of Michigan,
Prof. Karen Strier, University of Wisconsin, member of the USA National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Sarah Pryke, Australian National University,
Prof. Juan Carlos Reboreda, University of Buenos Aires,
Prof. Ruth Mace, University College of London;
and ISBE's 8th W. D. Hamilton Memorial Lecturer:
Prof. Marlene Zuk, University of Minnesota
Thanks, Mark Hauber and the ISBE 2014 Conference Committee.
The 2014 conference, our 15th, of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology will be held in New York City, USA, sponsored by CABI: the CUNY Animal Behavior Initiative, the Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York,
and New York University.
We hope that you can join us to continue the society's tradition of high quality science presented in a fast-paced conference setting by diverse participants.
This will also be a chance to catch up with friends and collaborators, and to meet brand new and smart ones, all the while exploring our home, New York City!
We are continuing to develop this web site, so please check in with us again and again!
NEWS UPDATES (subject to confirmation):
* The ISBE Travel Grants for 2014 have been announced! If you applied and have not yet received an email yet about the outcome, please contact Dr Walter Koenig, treasurer of ISBE. Thanks!
*The Animal Behavior Society annual meeting (Princeton: abs2014.princeton.edu) is now accepting abstract submissions. First come, first serve for talks!
*Double-blind peer-reviews are on their way! Thanks to everyone who is taking part in the process. You will hear from us before April 30!!!
*Frog Satellite Symposium website is now live! Attend for free if you're registered for ISBE2014.: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mbee//OFS/Frog_Symposium/Welcome.html
* We've reached 975 registered participants!!! Thank you all for completing the registration. If you have NOT yet heard from us at least via mass email (ChimpMail server), please email us right away (we've been correcting some mis-typed email addresses recently on the registration form).
* We have 922 abstracts submitted before the deadline!! Well done, ISBE2014!! Now we begin the peer-review process. If you're an ISBE member, and would like to volunteer to read and rate 10 abstracts, please send us an email!
* Confirmed! NYC scientist, Nobel-winner Prof. Martin Chalfie, of Columbia University, will give welcoming remarks at ISBE2014!
* Abstracts!! Abstract submission is now over. The abstract submission window was Feb. 1-March 15, 2014 (midnight, NYC time). We updated our registration refund policy so that you can get a full refund (minus administrative fees) until April 30, at which point you will know 1. whether you received an ISBE Travel Grant and 2. you were accepted for a talk or a poster presentation. The application deadline for the ISBE Travel Grants has now passed.
* March 1: we are now at capacity with dorm rooms; if you have not yet registered, we will no longer be accepting new requests for dorm-based accommodations. If you had registered before Feb. 28, you'll get a dorm room if you asked for it. There may be sporadic spaces available, due to cancellations, and we ask you to indicate your interest in these on the updated registration form, but there are no guarantees (we have already 100+ people on the wait list). If you'd still like to stay in a nice(!) and very economical, hostel-style facility (very!) near the Hunter campus (i.e. 15 min walk across Central Park), please read about the conference-rate on our F.A.Q page, and consider staying at the YMCA on Central Park West: http://www.ymcanyc.org/westside.
* For those interested in hotel accommodations, ISBE has partnered with the fantastic St. Giles/Tuscany Hotel and is offering a discounted rate if you book it through July 1st, 2014. Please reserve your room here using the promo code "ISBE" at checkout. The discounted rate is subject to availability and only applicable during the conference dates, July 31st-August 6th.
* The ISBE Travel Award Application is now closed. Those who applied all received an email confirming the receipt of their application (on March 1), as the deadline for the application was February 28, 2014 (midnight, NYC Time). This was 2 weeks earlier than our separate Abstract submission deadline (March 15)! The successful applicants will hear about the outcome of their application (well) before April 30. If you have any questions about the Travel Awards, please contact Prof. Walt Koenig, Treasurer of ISBE, directly: wdk4@cornell.edu
* We have updated our Daycare/Child attendance information, please visit the Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.) page.
* ISBE2014's evening at the Museum! Join us for a screening of Mammas! and Q&A with Isabella Rossellini on Aug. 4, Monday evening at the American Museum of Natural History, co-hosted by the Linnean Society of New York.
* Symposia--we have many and they are exciting; consult our Program page for details!
* HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2014!!!
* Would you like to stay longer in the New York region? Consider attending the Animal Behavior Society's annual meeting at Princeton University: August 9-14, 2014: http://abs2014.princeton.edu . Special registration rates are available for ISBE participants, even if you're not a member of ABS. Unfortunately, we cannot assist with you with dormitory housing before/beyond our conference days. Fees for ABS:
- $325 ISBE registrant from non-US institution
- $125 Student ISBE registrant from non-US institution
* Registration is now OPEN!! Please register at our regular registration fee (available until April 30, 2014)! Registrants will be placed on a wait list for dormitory style housing at NYU's downtown campus (click for a brief description). Please visit our registration page for more details about costs, payment options, and refund rates.
* We welcome our new sponsors of the conference: Oxford University Press' Oxford Journals, Princeton University Press, and the University of Chicago Press; also, Wiley Press; please read others' and submit your own papers in CURRENT ZOOLOGY, Frontiers in Zoology, in Brain, Behavior and Evolution, in the new journal Coevolution, Royal Society Publishing (UK), and in ISBE's own society journal Behavioral Ecology!
* We have secured the site of the opening reception on the evening of Thursday, July 31, 2014: 7-9PM after hours @ Central Park Zoo.
* Our final reception and banquet is planned take place in the evening of Tuesday, August 5, 2014. We will update you here about the site of this celebration, soon; most likely we will be at the Great Hall of City College of New York!
* ISBE 2014 welcomes conference co-chair Dr James Higham and the sponsorship of New York University. Our poster sessions will take place in the penthouse glass and mirror suite on the NYU campus in historic Greenwich Village on Friday and Saturday evenings.
* We are delighted to announce that the following scientists have agreed to deliver keynote lectures at ISBE2014:
Prof. Thomas Seeley, Cornell University,
Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Tibbetts, University of Michigan,
Prof. Karen Strier, University of Wisconsin, member of the USA National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Sarah Pryke, Australian National University,
Prof. Juan Carlos Reboreda, University of Buenos Aires,
Prof. Ruth Mace, University College of London;
and ISBE's 8th W. D. Hamilton Memorial Lecturer:
Prof. Marlene Zuk, University of Minnesota
Thanks, Mark Hauber and the ISBE 2014 Conference Committee.
