Symposia Organized

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  • Birds versus Mammals: Functional Morphology and Evolution. Organized with Andrei V. Zinoviev for the 27th International Ornithological Congress, Vancouver, BC, 19-26 August 2018
  • Satellite Meeting of the Working Group Psittaciformes. Organized by Juan F. Masello, Igor Berkunsky, Noelia Volpe, Cristina Miyaki, Patricia Escalante, Bonnie Zimmermann, Erica Pacifico, Dianne Brunton, Luis Ortiz Catedral, Rafael Mounzon, Adrián Di Giacomo, Eliana Montenegro, Nathaniel Annorbah, Avinandan, Michael Braun, Donald Brightsmith, Carlos de Araújo, Soledad Díaz, José A. Díaz-Luque, Rob Heinsohn, Roelant Jonker, Martín Lezama-López, Rowan Martin, Craig Symes, José L. Tella, Jörn Theuerkauf, Thomas White Jr., Sam Williams, and Dominique G. Homberger for the 27th International Ornithological Congress, Vancouver, BC, 19-26 August 2018
  • Realistic and Testable Models in Comparative Anatomy: Creative Uses of 3D/4D Imaging Techniques. Organized with Michelle L. Osborn for the Annual Meeting, American Association of Anatomists, San Diego, CA, 23 April 2018
  • Avian Anatomy Summit Meeting to plan and organize the Working Group Avian Morphology (WGAM) for the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU). Organized by Dominique G. Homberger. Dept. of Biological Sciences, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.
  • Evolutionary Morphology of Birds: New Methods and Concepts. Organized with Andrei V. Zinoviev for the 26th International Ornithological Congress, Tokyo (Japan), 18-24 August 2014
  • Complex Functional-Morphological Adaptations of Birds to Flight. Symposium (dedicated to Walter J. Bock and Evgeny N. Kurochkin in honor of their contributions to the evolutionary biology and history of birds). Organized with Andrei V. Zinoviev for the 25th International Ornithological Congress, Campos do Jordão (Brazil), 22-28 August 2010
  • The Evolutionary Morphology of the Vocal Apparatus of Land Vertebrates. Symposium (with funding from the American Association of Anatomists). Organized with Roland Frey for the 9th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM-9), Punta del Este (Uruguay), 26-31 July 2010
  • Teaching the Next Generation of Avian Biologists. Round-Table Discussion. Organized with Elizabeth Höfling for the 24th International Ornithological Congress in Hamburg (Germany), 13-19 August 2006
  • Bird Trade: Conservation Strategy or Extinction Catalyst? Round-Table Discussion. Organized with Steven R. Beissinger for the 23rd International Ornithological Congress, Beijing (China), 11-17 August 2002. [Published in the IOC Congress Proceedings in Acta Zoologica Sinensis, 52 (Supplement ): 46-47 (2006)]
  • Development and evolution of the integument and its appendages. Organized with Cheng-Ming Chuong for the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Jena, Germany, 21-26 July 2001. [Published as "Development and evolution of amniote integuments" in Journal of experimental Zoology,298B (1): 1‑180 (2003)]
  • Synthetic evolutionary morphology – the contributions of Walter J. Bock. Organized with J. Matthias Starck and Gart A. Zweers for the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Jena, Germany, 21-26 July 2001.
  • The Evolutionary Origin of Feathers. Organized with Paul F. A. Maderson for the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Denver, CO, January 1999 [Published in American Zoologist 40 (4) 2000]
  • Skeleto-muscular Systems of Birds: Answers to Old Questions Through Innovation and Integration. Organized for the 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban, South Africa, August 1998. [Published in Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress (N. Adams & R. Slotow, eds). 1999. University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa].
  • The UN Conference on Women in Beijing: Successful Strategies for Implementation of the Platform for Action. Organized for the Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Baltimore, February 1996. [Available on tape #AS6156 from AVEN (Audiovisual Education Network, Inc. 1-800-810-TAPE].
  • Avian feeding mechanisms: Their ecological and evolutionary significance. Organized for the 21st International Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria, August 1994. (Published as extended abstracts in Journal fürOrnithologie, 135, 1994)
  • Comparative morphology of birds. Organized for the 19th International Ornithological Congress, Ottawa, Canada, June 1986. [Published in Acta XIX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologicus (H. Ouellet, ed.), 1988. University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa]
  • Questions, explanations, models and tests in morphology: The interaction between hypotheses and empirical observations. Organized with Walter J. Bock for the annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Division of Vertebrate Morphology, Baltimore, MD, 29 December 1985. [Published in American Zoologist, 28 (1) 1988]