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

Rank and social context influence sleep in wild chimpanzees

Institute Seminar by Clara Hozer
  • Date: Jul 1, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Clara Hozer
  • Clara Hozer obtained her PhD at the National Museum of Natural History in France, under the supervision of Fabien Pifferi, where she investigated the links between circadian rhythms, aging, and survival in the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). She then pursued a first postdoctoral position focusing on sleep characteristics in the same species. Following this, she was awarded a Fyssen Foundation fellowship to study sleep in wild chimpanzees at the University of Neuchâtel, under the supervision of Klaus Zuberbühler, for a period of two years.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: nslania@ab.mpg.de
Sleep is vital for health and fitness, and its expression is shaped by ecological and social contexts that may either promote or disturb it. Most research, however, has focused on captive settings, detached from natural environments that can modify the balance between benefits and drawbacks of ... [more]

Cracking Capuchins: Investigation stone tool use by white-faced capuchin monkeys using camera traps

Doctoral defense by Zoë Goldsborough, supervised by Meg Crofoot
  • Date: Jul 1, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zoë Goldsborough
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: D0434 + online
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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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