Events

Guidance cues for leukocyte migration in space and time

Biology seminar by Prof. Daniel Legler

Date: Jun 30, 2022
Time: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Legler
Prof. Daniel Legler, Immunology and Cell Biology, University of Konstanz
Location: M629 University of Konstanz
Room: M629
Host: University of Konstanz, department of Biology

Link to attend the seminars: https://tinyurl.com/2p86vusy [more]

Plasticity and Adaptation of Capuchin Monkeys examined through Behaviour, Microbes and Genes

Rado Seminar by Amanda Melin

Date: Jul 1, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker: Amanda Melin
University of Calgary
Location: Hybrid meeting
Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Adaptation to changing environments shapes the genetic and phenotypic diversity of organisms over evolutionary time. Animals also face changing environments throughout the course of their lifetime, and plasticity in behaviours, gene expression, and microbes helps them survive these short-term shifts. In my talk, I discuss adaptation and plasticity in a highly flexible, social primate, the capuchin ... [more]

CASCB talk: The self-assembling horde: building functional structures on the move by Simon Garnier

Date: Jul 4, 2022
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Speaker: Simon Garnier
Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Location: ZT 702 and Online
Room: ZT 702
Host: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

A defining characteristic of army ants is the mobility of their colonies that relocate their massive populations sometimes every day, in search of new hunting grounds. That nomadic lifestyle is met with many logistical challenges posed by the complex and unpredictable terrains of the tropical forests these ants inhabit. In response, they have evolved the ability to build temporary support ... [more]

Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)

Start: Jul 5, 2022
End: Jul 7, 2022
Location: Konstanz
Host: Wataru Toyokawa, Charley Wu; CASCB

The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) is designed to provide attendees (COSMOnauts) from diverse fields (e.g., psychology, economics, neuroscience, biology, computer science, etc…) and career stages (master, PhD, postdoc, and junior PI) with the computational skills required to tackle emerging challenges in understanding social learning and collective ... [more]

Institute Seminar - Ahmed El Hady

Institute Seminar by Ahmed El Hady

Date: Jul 5, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker: Ahmed El Hady
Location: Hybrid meeting
Room: VCC, University of Konstanz
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de

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Animal Behavior Course

Part of weekly lecture series which started 13th of April, every Wednesday at 11:45-13:15 in R 611

Date: Jul 6, 2022
Speaker: Iain Couzin, Alex Jordan, Michael Griesser
Location: Lecture
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: kanderson@ab.mpg.de

This course will explore the fundamental principles that underline the evolution and mechanism of animal behavior. Animal behavior naturally crosses scales and disciplinary boundaries. This course will integrate our understanding of behavior with information from neuroscience, evolution, physiology, genetics, and the biology of complex systems. [more]

Introduction in Scientific Writing

Start: Jul 7, 2022 11:47 AM
End: Jul 8, 2022 11:47 AM
Speaker: Brian Cusack
Science Craft
Location: MPI in Möggingen
Room: Seminarraum, Am Obstberg 1
Host: IMPRS
Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de

This two-day workshop enables life scientists to to write clearly and with impact! The participants learn how to construct a “take-home” message that tells the story of their research, choose words that communicate their science clearly, and structure their paper into a flowing narrative. [more]

The unnatural amino acid technology as tool to unravel the ubiquitin code

Biology seminar by Prof. Martin Scheffner

Date: Jul 7, 2022
Time: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Speaker: Prof. Miriam Unterlass
Prof. Martin Scheffner, Biochemistry, University of Konstanz
Location: M629 University of Konstanz
Room: M629
Host: University of Konstanz, department of Biology

Link to attend the seminars: https://tinyurl.com/2p86vusy [more]

CASCB talk: Neurogenetics of social affiliation in zebrafish by Johannes Larsch

Date: Jul 11, 2022
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Speaker: Dr. Johannes Larsch
Dr. Johannes Larsch, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich
Location: ZT 702 and Online
Room: ZT 702
Host: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

Many species live in groups and affiliate with conspecifics upon sensory detection and processing of social information. However, investigating sensory processing during social behavior is inherently difficult because in most cases, the mutual interactions between individuals and the resulting sensory experience are beyond experimental control.We investigate affiliation pathways in juvenile ... [more]

Getting Published & Understanding Peer Review

Start: Jul 11, 2022 11:47 AM
End: Jul 12, 2022 11:47 AM
Speaker: Brian Cusack
Science Craft
Location: MPI in Möggingen
Room: Seminarraum, Am Obstberg 1
Host: IMPRS
Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de

Learning to write and respond to reviewers' comments are vital skills for early-career researchers to master if they wish to become established scientists. However, these skills are often neglected, forcing researchers to learn them by trial and error. By learning to address reviewers' comments, young researchers not only increase their chances of getting their work published but also learn to ... [more]

Institute Seminar: When, who and what to copy - dynamic learning strategies in wild birds

Institute Seminar by Sonja Wild

Date: Jul 12, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker: Sonja Wild
Location: Hybrid meeting
Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de

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Animal Behavior Course

Part of weekly lecture series, every Wednesday

Date: Jul 13, 2022
Speaker: Iain Couzin, Alex Jordan, Michael Griesser
Location: Lecture
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: kanderson@ab.mpg.de

This course will explore the fundamental principles that underline the evolution and mechanism of animal behavior. Animal behavior naturally crosses scales and disciplinary boundaries. This course will integrate our understanding of behavior with information from neuroscience, evolution, physiology, genetics, and the biology of complex systems. [more]

Leadership skills

IMPRS workshop

Start: Jul 14, 2022 09:00 AM
End: Jul 15, 2022 05:00 PM
Speaker: Sabine Lerch
www.science.sabinelerch.de

2022-06-14 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:002022-06-15 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00 | This course was designed for young scientists to provide you with basic theoretical and practical knowledge concerning leadership. The word "leader" goes with "people." Leaders are expected to improve human performance, as well as to manage resources. Yet many professionals focus only on technical or scientific qualifications ... [more]

Glucocorticoid synthesis in colorectal tumors as an immune escape mechanism

Biology seminar by Prof. Thomas Brunner

Date: Jul 14, 2022
Time: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Brunner
Prof. Thomas Brunner, Biochemical Pharmacology, University of Konstanz
Location: M629 University of Konstanz
Room: M629
Host: University of Konstanz, department of Biology

Link to attend the seminars: https://tinyurl.com/2p86vusy [more]

CASCB talk: When, who and what to copy - dynamic learning strategies in wild birds by Sonja Wild

Date: Jul 18, 2022
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Speaker: Dr. Sonja Wild
Dr. Sonja Wild, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz
Location: ZT 702 and Online
Room: ZT 702
Host: Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

After finishing her BSc in Biology and MSc in Anthropology at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Sonja Wild moved to the UK to continue her studies with a PhD at the University of Leeds. Since 2019, Sonja has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB), University of Konstanz & Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell ... [more]

Institute Seminar - Gabriella Gall & Isabelle Laumer

Institute Seminar by Gabriella Gall & Isabelle Laumer

Date: Jul 19, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Speaker: Gabriella Gall & Isabelle Laumer
Location: Hybrid meeting
Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: all.science@ab.mpg.de

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Animal Behavior Course

Part of weekly lecture series which started 13th of April, every Wednesday at 11:45-13:15 in R 611

Date: Jul 20, 2022
Speaker: Iain Couzin, Alex Jordan, Michael Griesser
Location: Lecture
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: kanderson@ab.mpg.de

This course will explore the fundamental principles that underline the evolution and mechanism of animal behavior. Animal behavior naturally crosses scales and disciplinary boundaries. This course will integrate our understanding of behavior with information from neuroscience, evolution, physiology, genetics, and the biology of complex systems. [more]

Best paper award (BPA)

Biology seminar by Prof. Mark van Kleunen

Date: Jul 21, 2022
Time: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Speaker: Prof. Mark van Kleunen
Prof. Mark van Kleunen, Head of Department of Biology, University of Konstanz
Location: M629 University of Konstanz
Room: M629
Host: University of Konstanz, department of Biology

Link to attend the seminars: https://tinyurl.com/2p86vusy [more]

Good Scientific Practice - Avoid Research Misconduct

Date: Jul 22, 2022
Speaker: Michael Mende
Location: online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: michael.mende@uni-konstanz.de

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The Neurophysics of Locomotion (submodule: C. elegans locomotion in environments with different physical properties)

Summer School

Start: Aug 18, 2022
End: Aug 19, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Serena Ding, Group Leader Genes and Behaviour, MPI Radolfzell
Dr. Serena Ding, Dr. Monika Scholz (C. elegans module)
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: bkeeves@ab.mpg.de

Locomotion is intimately connected to the substrate on or in which it occurs. A swimmer in a liquid environment with drag needs to perform different strokes to effectively move its body than a walker on a hard surface. Using the roundworm C. elegans as a model, we will explore the interaction between the nervous system, muscular contractions and different substrates of locomotion in 2D and 3D ... [more]