22nd ANNUAL ANIMAL BEHAVIOR CONFERENCE AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

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The 22^nd Annual Animal Behavior Conference will be held at Indiana University on March 26-28, 2015. The conference will open on Thursday, March 26, at 2 PM with a symposium entitled “Every Signal Thing: Mechanisms and Evolution of Animal Communication.” This symposium will feature keynote speaker James Hare from the University of Manitoba. The keynote speaker for the main conference on Friday, March 27, will be David Crews from the University of Texas at Austin. This year the conference will also feature a special symposium on the mechanisms of social behavior to celebrate the life and career of IU Professor of Biology Jim Goodson. This symposium will be on Saturday, March 28. Invited speakers for this exciting day of talks include Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Andrew Bass, Hans Hofmann, Rick Thompson, Steven Phelps, Rosemary Knapp, Alexander Ophir, Paul Forlano, David Kabelik, and Aubrey Kelly.

We welcome attendees to contribute presentation or poster abstracts, with special encouragement to undergraduate presenters. The deadline to submit an abstract is February 25, 2015. Registration for the Animal Behavior Conference is FREE.

For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/conference/index.php