SOTAB was formed in the 1970's by a committee of biologists from colleges and universities across the state of Georgia. Their primary goals were the sharing of information and incorporating the most current knowledge into their curriculum.
Here is a selection of past meeting themes:
2007: Neuroscience & Behavior and Cell Signaling
2006: The Role of RNA in Contemporary Biology and The Blurring Interface of Human and Animal Health
2005: Prions and Conservation Biology
2004: Landscape Ecology and Bioinformatics
2003: Forensic Entomology and Emerging & Re-emerging Infections
2001: Pollination Biology and Darwin: 2001
2000: Plant-Animal Interactions and Neurological Interactions
1999: Silent Spring Revisited and Life in the Universe-Where is it, how do we find it, and what do we care?
1998: Origins and Ethics
1997: The Cutting Edge of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Endocrinology: A Foray into Development, Ecology and Behavior
1996: Molecular Evolution, and Gene Expression and Regulation
1992: The Global Environment