Courses, Defenses & Events

April 15, 2025

IMPRS organised events in 2025

  • Selection Symposium: 10. - 12. March
  • IMPRS PhD retreat: 14. - 16. May, including a workshop “Job hunting basics for academia and beyond”
  • Working in Germany, Talk by Eva Maisel: 13. May
  • Data Analysis with R (course): starting in March
  • Scientific Writing (workshop): 3. - 4. July
  • Peer Review (workshop): 7. - 8. July
  • Welcome Week: 29. Sep - 2. Oct including a workshop on Project Management
  • Data visualisation with R (course): starting November

Upcomming Seminars

Scientific Writing (workshop)

2-tägiger Kurs
  • Start: Jul 3, 2025
  • End: Jul 4, 2025
  • Speaker: Brian Cusack, Science Craft
  • Dr. Brian Cusack comes from Cork, Ireland and received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007. During his Ph.D. Brian received the kind of mentoring that he continues to consider as the gold-standard for graduate students. After completing his first postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Brian conducted post-doctoral research in evolutionary genomics at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. In February 2012, together with Rick Scavetta, Brian co-founded Science Craft in Berlin. Since then Brian has provided high-level training workshops for more than a thousand researchers throughout Germany as well as in Norway and China.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT1201
  • Host: IMPRS
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
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Social and Ecological Pathways in the Evolution of Learning Strategies: Insights from Primates and Beyond

Rado Seminar by Saein Lee
  • Date: Jul 4, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Saein Lee
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Understanding how animals acquire complex behaviors requires bridging ecological, cognitive, and social perspectives. In this seminar, I will first share findings from my research on wild gibbons, where I examined how immature individuals balance asocial and social learning, and selectively choose ... [more]

Getting Published and Mastering Peer Review (workshop)

  • Start: Jul 7, 2025
  • End: Jul 8, 2025
  • Speaker: Brian Cusack, Science Craft
  • Dr. Brian Cusack comes from Cork, Ireland and received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007. During his Ph.D. Brian received the kind of mentoring that he continues to consider as the gold-standard for graduate students. After completing his first postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Brian conducted post-doctoral research in evolutionary genomics at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. In February 2012, together with Rick Scavetta, Brian co-founded Science Craft in Berlin. Since then Brian has provided high-level training workshops for more than a thousand researchers throughout Germany as well as in Norway and China.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: tba
  • Host: IMPRS
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
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Courtship complexity: insights from Neotropical birds

Institute Seminar by Lilian Manica
  • Date: Jul 8, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lilian Manica
  • Lilian Tonelli Manica is a professor in the Department of Zoology at the Federal University of Paraná and advise students at the Graduate Program in Zoology and Graduate Program in Ecology and Conservation of the same institution. She coordinates the Behavioural Ecology and Ornithology Lab, developing projects to understand the importance of immediate and evolutionary mechanisms in the production of bird behaviors. Her interests include sexual selection, communication, migration, mating systems and conservation. Her work explores, among other topics, cooperative displays in manakins, the relationship between parasitism and ornamentation, and environmental impacts on bird ecology.
  • Location: University of Konstanz + online
  • Room: ZT 702
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: dperez@ab.mpg.de
Courtship displays, driven by sexual selection, are fascinating behaviors across a wide range of animal taxa. Birds, in particular, serve as excellent study models due to their often multimodal sexual exhibitions, which involve various sensory modalities such as coloration, body movements, and ... [more]

Leveraging Movement Data for Vulture Survival and Conservation

Rado Seminar by Andrea Santangeli
  • Date: Jul 11, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrea Santangeli
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Vultures play a vital ecological role as obligate scavengers, yet they are among the most threatened bird groups worldwide, facing critical challenges such as poisoning, habitat change, and human-wildlife conflict. As highly mobile species, their survival depends on understanding how they interact ... [more]

Institute Seminar by Genevieve Finerty

Institute Seminar by Genevieve Finerty
  • Date: Jul 15, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Genevieve Finerty
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: afogato@ab.mpg.de
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Sensory processing and decision making in a social context: From odors to swarm motion in insects

Doctoral defense by Inga Petelski, supervised by Einat Couzin-Fuchs
  • Date: Jul 16, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Inga Petelski
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: XS306
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Quantifying adaptations of mammals to human-dominated landscapes

Doctoral defense by Claudio Monteza, supervised by Meg Crofoot
  • Date: Jul 16, 2025
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Claudio Monteza
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: P0603 + online
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The defensive behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera): individuality, social regulation, and neural mechanisms

Doctoral defense by Kavitha Kannan, supervised by Morgane Nouvian
  • Date: Jul 22, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kavitha Kannan
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT 702 + online
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From the PhD-Odyssey to Project Management

Welcome Week
  • Start: Sep 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 30, 2025 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Sabine Preusse, RaumZeit e.K.
  • Dr. Sabine Preusse received her PhD in theoretical astrophysics in 2005 after studying geophysics. After her doctorate, she became project manager for European research and development projects at the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Karlsruhe in the field of production technologies in 2006. In 2011, she started her own business, RaumZeit e.K. Coaching Beratung Training, focusing on proposal writing and project management of research and innovation projects. Since then, she has accompanied scientists and research groups individually and in teams as a trainer, coach and consultant. In her project management approach, Dr. Preusse transfers classical and agile project management approaches to the context of research projects. In doing so, she integrates her own experience with content and methods from her advanced training courses. She is a business economist (IWW), BDVT certified trainer and consultant, BDVT certified business coach and expert in controlling success. In addition, she has received further training in the areas of intellectual property, communication, free educational materials, video production for the dissemination of project results, among others.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: Y310 + Y311
  • Host: IMPRS
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
Doing a PhD is very much related to a hero’s story. Starting highly motivated defining the research topic, PhD-students soon encounter the first obstacles. However, like heroes they will meet someone, a mentor, who will get deeply involved in their training as a researcher. This may be a supervisor ... [more]
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