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Plenary Lectures

Peter Aerts - The Promise of Basic Mechanics in Functional and Ecological Vertebrate Morphology

Frietson Galis - The Conservation of Body Plans Through Internal Selection

Susan Herring - Mechanical Loading and the Mammalian Skull

David Kingsley - How is Morphology Encoded in the Genome?

Olivier Rieppel - Breaking Organisms Into Parts: Similarity, Stereotype, and Homology

Lawrence Witmer - Fleshing Out the Past: The Problem of Anatomical Novelty in the Fossil Record

Symposia

Adhesion in Vertebrates -- Mechanisms and Biomimetic Implications
(Organized by W.J.P. Barnes)

Evolution of Developmental and Reproductive Patterns in Mammals
(Organized by K.K. Smith & U. Zeller)

Evolutionary Origin of Neural Crest and Placodes
(Organized by G. Schlosser & C.V.H. Baker)

Inferring Function and Behavior in Extinct Vertebrates
(Organized by D.M. Henderson and E. Snively)

Integrated Mechanical Investigations of Fish Swimming
(Organized by R.G. Root and J.H. Long)

Integrating Approaches to the Study of Terrestrial Locomotion
(Organized by S.M. Reilly & N. Stevens)

Linking Genes and Morphology
(Organized by F. Galis and J. Jernvall)

Making Headway -- Craniofacial Development in Model and Non-Model Vertebrates
(Organized by L.P. Hernández)

Mechanistic Approaches to Evolutionary Developmental Biology
(Organized by M.L. Zelditch)

Molecular and Morphogenetic Evolution of Specific Organs
(Organized by B. Fritzsch and S. Kuratani)

Morphology and Paleobiology of Mesozoic Birds
(Organized by A. Elzanowski and A. Chinsamy-Turan)

Phylogenetic Approaches in Comparative Vertebrate Morphology
(Organized by T. Garland)

Respiration and Locomotion: Coupled Systems in Vertebrate Evolution
(Organized by S.F. Perry & D.R. Carrier)

Stem Groups and the Assembly of Vertebrate Body Plans
(Organized by P.C.J. Donoghue & M.A. Purnell)

The Ontogeny of Performance in Vertebrates
(Organized by A. Herrell & A.C. Gibb)

Poster Symposia

Morphology and Life Habits of Past and Present Giant Vertebrates
(Organized by R.A. Fariña and S.F. Vizcaíno)

Mechanisms and Tradeoffs in Vertebrate Burrowing
(Organized by B. Moon and J.C. O'Reilly)

Venom Delivery in Snakes
(Organized by B.A. Young and K.V. Kardong)

Morphological Transformations During the Transition to Dry Land
(Organized by Z. Rocek and J.A. Clack)

Workshops

Finite-element Analysis of Vertebrate Skulls
(Organized by C. Ross)

Fish Teeth Wet Lab
(Organized by H. Evans)

Application of Advanced Imaging Technologies to Vertebrate Morphology
(Organized by T. Cranford)

Teaching Comparative Anatomy
(Organized by A.P. Russell and H.I. Rosenberg)