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Wednesday 20th July, location Academy Building
| 14:00-18:00 | Registration & Information | | |
| 15:45-16:00 | Opening | | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Plenary 1 | Franjo Weissing | Reconciling mechanistic and functional perspectives on behaviour |
| 17:00-18:00 | Welcome drinks | | |
Thursday 21st July, location Oosterpoort
| 07:00 | Optional social event | Morning run through Groningen | |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Registration & Information | | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary 2 | Peter Kappeler | The evolution of primate social systems |
| 10:05-11:05 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Individual variation in genetics, physiology and behaviour | The social brain | Open |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Individual variation in genetics, physiology and behaviour | The social brain | Open |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Poster session | | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Individual variation in genetic, physiology and behaviour | Cultural evolution | There is no ‘I’ in welfare – the social dimension of animal wellbeing |
| 15:30-16:00 | Tea break | | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Individual variation in genetic, physiology and behaviour | Cultural evolution | There is no ‘I’ in welfare – the social dimension of animal wellbeing |
| 17:05-18:00 | Plenary 3 | Audrey Dussutour | Problem solving in slime molds: from decision making to learning |
| 18:30 | Optional social event | Dinner Lottery: meet other participants in restaurants | |
Friday 22nd July, location Oosterpoort
07:00
| Optional social event | Morning run through Groningen | |
| 08:00-17:30 | Registration & Information | | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary 4 | David Anderson | Neural control of innate social and defensive behaviors and their internal motive states |
| 10:05-11:05 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Animal Communication | The emergence of novel behaviours during social evolution | Open |
| 11:05-11:30 | Coffee break | | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Animal Communication | The emergence of novel behaviours during social evolution | Open |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Poster session | | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Animal Communication | Social influences on mate choice | Social foraging: from mechanism to consequence |
| 15:30-16:00 | Tea break | | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Animal Communication | Social influences on mate choice | Social foraging: from mechanism to consequence |
| 17:30 | Optional social Event | Pubquiz and/or treasure hunt in Groningen city center | |
Saturday 23rd July, location Oosterpoort
| 07:00 | Optional social event | Morning run through Groningen | |
| 08:30 – 17:30 | Registration & Information | | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary 6 | Joel Levine | Using Drosophila To Understand Social Groups |
| 10:05-11:05 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Endocrinology of social behaviour | Cognition | Dominance between the sexes in group-living animals |
| 11:05-11:30 | Coffee break | | |
| 11:30-12:25 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Endocrinology of social behaviour | Cognition | Dominance between the sexes in group-living animals |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | | |
| 13:30-14:05 | Surprise talk | | |
| 14:05-15:35 | Niko Tinbergen Prize from the German Ethological Society. | Chaired by Claudia Fichtel | |
| 14:15-14:45 | Niko Tinbergen award 1 | Lysanne Snijders | Social dynamics going wild – insights from novel technology and traditional observation |
| 15:00-15:30 | Niko Tinbergen award 2 | Manon Schweinfurth | Reciprocal cooperation in animals: does it exist? |
| 15:35-16:00 | Tea Break | | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Plenary 7 | Rose Thorogood | If “All of life is social”, how do social interactions influence the evolution of species interactions? |
| 17:05-17:30 | Closing ceremony and student prizes | | |
| 18:00 | Conference dinner | | |
ECBB 22 - All of life is social 