Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section Trainee-Driven Featured Topic

Featured Topic — Sunday, April 22, 2018 — 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM — Convention Center, Room 25C
Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section — Chair: Dane Crossley — Co-Chair: Michael Tift

This session will be comprised of talks selected from the group of trainee abstract submitted to the comparative and evoluationary physiology section. 

Speakers

• Active NH4+ excretion via Na+/NH4+(H+) exchange in the highly ammonia tolerant hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
  Alexander Michael Clifford — University of Alberta


• Evolutionarily-Conserved Mechanisms of Nutrient Acquisition in the Primordial Vertebrate, the Pacific Hagfish
  Alyssa Weinrauch — University of Alberta


• Crude oil impairs heart cell function in the mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus)
  Rachael M Heuer — University of Miami


• Paralytic hypo-energetic state facilitates anoxia tolerance despite ionic imbalance in adult Drosophila melanogaster
  Jacob B Campbell — Arizona State University


• Incomplete Caspase Signaling During Hibernation In The Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus lateralis
  Michael D. Treat — University of Nevada, Las Vegas


• Noradrenergic tuning, not simple rate effects, produces temperature-sensitivity of the respiratory network in bullfrogs
  Mauricio Vallejo — Wright State University


• COCHAIR
  Michael Tift —