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Assessment of the burden of wild animals during capture / Einschätzung der Belastung von Wildtieren beim Fang - Open discussion

Brain Huddle
  • Date: Mar 31, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Wolfgang Fiedler
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Möggingen, seminar room top floor
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
In the context of animal experiments, it is necessary to estimate the stress / burden on the animal in each individual test section. The assessment of the stress of wild animals during capture or removal from the nest is often subject of discussion. In order to be able to counter the sometimes ... [more]

Time- and self- management with Sabine Lerch

  • Start: Apr 18, 2023 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 19, 2023 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Sabine Lerch
  • www.science.sabinelerch.de
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
Why - Objectives Time can not be bought, stored or stopped. Every second that passes is gone forever. In this respect it should be seen as the most valuable of all resources and the only way to maximise its potential is to use it well. What “well” means in this context is a highly individual thing ... [more]

Institute Seminar by Jessica Rothman

Institute Seminar by Jessica Rothman
  • Date: Apr 25, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jessica Rothman
  • Dr. Jessica Rothman is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College, whose main areas of interest include nutritional ecology, and wildlife conservation. She serves as Director of the Human Biology Program and is a core member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
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Institute Seminar by Jan Gogarten

Institute Seminar by Jan Gogarten
  • Date: May 2, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jan Gogarten
  • Dr. Jan Gogarten is a postdoctoral researcher at Applied Zoology and Nature Conservation, University of Greifswald and the Helmholtz Institute for One Health. He is interested in the diverse communities of organisms that associate with primates, the ecological and evolutionary processes shaping them, and their impact on primate health.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
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NeuroDoWo 2023 Konstanz

  • Start: May 2, 2023 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 5, 2023 06:00 PM
  • Location: Konstanz
  • Contact: neurodowo2023@gmail.com
The NeuroDoWo has been organized by doctoral candidates for over 30 years under the patronage of the German Neuroscience Society. Our aim is to reach early career scientists from an as broad and diverse (neuro-) scientific background as possible, from Germany and abroad. The conference promotes ... [more]

Institute Seminar by Marco Gamba

Institute Seminar by Marco Gamba
  • Date: May 9, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marco Gamba
  • Dr. Marco Gamba is a Researcher in Zoology in the Department of Life Sciences And Systems Biology at the University of Torino. His long-time interest in sounds and music led him to a growing interest in bioacoustics and his current research on improving our understanding of Primate phonation and vocal abilities.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
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Navigating the human footprint: Linking animal behavior to functional connectivity in shared spaces

Institute Seminar by Kaitlyn Gaynor
  • Date: May 16, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kaitlyn Gaynor
  • Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor is a wildlife ecologist and conservation scientist, and her research draws on behavioral and community ecology to understand the roles that humans play in ecological systems. Kaitlyn is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Botany at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to joining UBC, Kaitlyn received her PhD from UC Berkeley and completed her postdoctoral research at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
Given the ongoing loss of biodiversity and the expansion of the global human footprint, it is critical and urgent to understand how human disturbance shapes ecological communities. The growing human footprint poses a particular challenge for large-bodied, wide-ranging terrestrial mammals, whose ... [more]

SEATRACK - Multi-species, multi-population tracking of seabirds on an ocean-basin scale

Institute Seminar by Benjamin Merkel
  • Date: May 23, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benjamin Merkel
  • Dr. Benjamin Merkel is a postdoctoral researcher at Akvaplan-niva. His research interests include the polar oceans, movement ecology, spatial analyses, population biology, species distributions, visualization of complex data, and computational modeling.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
Many seabird species undergo extensive seasonal migrations, often across large marine ecosystems or between marine areas under different national jurisdictions. Through the advances of electronic tracking and especially the application of Global Location Sensors (GLS or geolocator). It is now ... [more]

Institute Seminar by Antonio C. Costa

Institute Seminar by Antonio C. Costa
  • Date: May 30, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Antonio C. Costa
  • Antonio C Costa is a JRC Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics of ENS Paris, interested in the physics of animal behavior.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
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Institute Seminar by Gonzalo Polavieja

Institute Seminar by Gonzalo Polavieja
  • Date: Jun 13, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gonzalo Polavieja
  • Dr. Gonzalo de Polavieja is heading the Research Group 'Mathematics of Behavior and Intelligence' at the Champalimaud Foundation and Founder at Algebraic AI Inc. HIs interests are in trying to understand what happens between data and a model.
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de
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