Courses, Defenses & Events

May 06, 2026

IMPRS organised events in 2026

  • 1st conference on multiple global change factors and plant invasions, 30. March - 2. April 2026 in Konstanz, website
  • IMPRS Symposium: 16. - 17. April, tba
  • IMPRS PhD student retreat: 18. - 20. May 2026, Tübingen
  • Data Visualisation Workshop: 12. June, U KN, M701
  • Grant Proposal Writing Workshop: 2. - 3. July 2026, U KN
  • Scientific Writing Workshop: 6. - 7. July 2026, U KN
  • Welcome Week: 5. - 9. October 2026, U KN / Möggingen

Please also keep an eye on the courses, workshops, and coachings offered via the Planck Academy (MPG) and the Konstanz Research School (KRS) at the U KN!

 

Upcomming Events, Seminars, Courses

Institute Retreat 2026

  • Date: Sep 22, 2026
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Pfarrheim Allensbach
Please save the date for the Institute Retreat (as usual, for institute members) on 22 September 2026, which will take place at Pfarrheim Allensbach, located directly on the beautiful shores of Lake Constance, right between Konstanz and Möggingen. With a primary focus on early-career researchers ... [more]

Evaluation of top-down camera trapping for detecting and counting bats emerging from roost boxes.

Rado Seminar by Paul Moser
  • Date: Sep 25, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paul Moser
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
To face current biodiversity declines, we need to extensively monitor wild animal populations. Wildlife monitoring relies on many different methods, all with their benefits and disadvantages. Among these, camera traps have become the primary tool to conduct wildlife monitoring due to their ... [more]

Counting Bats at Kasanka: Developing and Evaluating an Automated YOLO+TRex Video-Analysis Pipeline

Rado Seminar by Cara Rosien
  • Date: Sep 25, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Cara Rosien
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
How reliably can we count bats from videos of their evening emergence? At Kasanka National Park, Zambia, recordings of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) provide an opportunity to evaluate automated counting under challenging conditions. This talk presents the development and evaluation of a ... [more]

Habitat Geometry and the Development of Social Phenotypes in the Desert Locust

Doctoral defense by Madhansai Narisetty, supervised by Ahmed El Hady
  • Date: Sep 29, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Madhansai Narisetty (Maddy)
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT 1202
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Maximizing the success of media outreach

How to prepare for working with the media
  • Date: Sep 29, 2026
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carla Avolio
  • Media and Communications Officer, MPI-AB
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: cavolio@ab.mpg.de
Are you considering media outreach for your next paper? If you are, but are not sure what it's all about, this seminar will walk you through the basics. When do you start? How can you prepare? What happens when the emails start rolling in? Join MPI-AB media officer, Carla Avolio, for a step-by-step ... [more]

Welcome Week 2026

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