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Wednesday 20th July, location Academy Building
14:00-18:00 | Registration | | |
15:45-16:00 | Opening | | |
16:00-17:00 | Plenary 1 | Franjo Weissing | Reconciling mechanistic and functional perspectives on behaviour |
17:00-18:00 | | | |
Thursday 21st July, location Oosterpoort
8:00 | Registration | | |
09:00-10:00 | Plenary 2 | David Anderson | tba |
10:05-11:05 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Individual variation in genetics, physiology and behaviour | The social brain | Open |
11:05-11:30 | Coffee break | | |
11:30-12:25 | 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 |
Friday 22nd July, location Oosterpoort
08:00-12:00 | Registration | | |
09:00-10:00 | Plenary 4 | Peter Kappeler | The evolution of primate social systems |
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 |
17:05-18:00 | ASAB medal winner | Nicky Clayton | tba |
Saturday 23rd July, location Oosterpoort
09:00-10:00 | Plenary 6 | Joel Levine | tba |
10:05-11:05 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Endocrinology of social behaviour | Dominance between the sexes in group-living animals | Open: Cognition |
11:05-11:30 | Coffee break | | |
11:30-12:25 | Parallel Symposia | | |
| Endocrinology of social behaviour | Dominance between the sexes in group-living animals | Open: Cognition |
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 | tba |
17:05-17:30 | Closing ceremony and student prizes | | |
18:00 | Conference dinner | | |