Programme overview

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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