We are honored to announce that Professor Terrie Williams will deliver the Schmidt-Nielsen Lecture at the IUPS 2025 Congress in Frankfurt.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen was President of the IUPS from 1980 to 1986. He is the founding editor of News in Physiological Sciences (now known as Physiology). He is regarded as the father of comparative physiology and integrative biology.
Professor Terrie Williams is a distinguished ecophysiologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she serves as a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and is affiliated with the Institute of Marine Sciences. She directs the Integrative Carnivore EcoPhysiology (ICE) Lab and the Center for Marine Mammal Research and Conservation.
Her lecture, titled “The Hunter’s Breath”, Prof Williams will be talking about the metabolic costs of being big and fierce in mammalian carnivores at the top of the food chain. Using lessons in allometry from Schmidt- Nielsen, she will explore how mammals were able to dominate both the land and seas via unique, highly efficient energetic pathways for capturing and processing calories.
Join us for this captivating session as Professor Terrie Williams brings Schmidt-Nielsen’s legacy to life—exploring the powerful physiology that allows Earth’s top predators to thrive on land and in the sea. Don’t miss this journey into the metabolic secrets of being big and fierce.
