Past Events

AI-enabled scientific discovery in natural world imagery

Institute Seminar by Sara Beery
  • Date: Jul 16, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sara Beery
  • Dr. Sara Beery is the Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor in the MIT Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making. She was previously a visiting researcher at Google, working on large-scale urban forest monitoring as part of the Auto Arborist project. She received her PhD in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech in 2022, where she was advised by Pietro Perona and awarded the Amori Doctoral Prize for her thesis. Her research focuses on building computer vision methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities, tackling real-world challenges including geospatial and temporal domain shift, learning from imperfect data, fine-grained categories, and long-tailed distributions. She partners with industry, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies to deploy her methods in the wild worldwide. She works toward increasing the diversity and accessibility of academic research in artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary capacity building and education, and has founded the AI for Conservation slack community, serves as the Biodiversity Community Lead for Climate Change AI, founded and directs the Workshop on Computer Vision Methods for Ecology, and co-leads the NSF Global Climate Center on AI and Biodiversity Change.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT1202 + online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: blair.costelloe@ab.mpg.de
Natural world images collected by communities of enthusiast volunteers provide a vast and largely uncurated source of data. For instance, iNaturalist has over 180 million images tagged with species labels, already contributing immensely to research such as biodiversity monitoring and having been ... [more]

Health Day for MPI-AB

  • Date: Jul 10, 2024
  • Location: Bücklestrasse 5a and Schwaketenbad
  • Contact: henkenhaf@ab.mpg.de
A fun program of activities, demos and lectures to promote health and wellbeing, for staff of the MPI-AB. Proudly supported by TK [more]

Restoring biodiversity – the key to preventing the next pandemic?

Institute Seminar by Lucinda Kirkpatrick
  • Date: Jul 9, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lucinda Kirkpatrick
  • I carried out my PhD at the University of Stirling investigating biodiversity differences and animal behaviour in response to management decisions in commercial coniferous plantations in the UK. While this focussed primarily on bat species, for my post doc and fellowship (FWO), I changed country, study species and study location to investigate how individual and population level drivers influence disease transmission in the multimammate mouse in Tanzania based at the EVECO group at the University of Antwerp, under Prof. Herwig Leirs. I have now joined Bangor University in North Wales as Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, alongside co-leading a large consortium of partners to investigate how restoration influences biodiversity recovery, individual behaviour and mechanisms of spillover risk. This project, funded by Horizon EU, has just started and will run for four years and is a bringing together of the landscape scale drivers of biodiversity I investigated with my PhD and the drivers and mechanisms of spillover risk which underpinned my post doctoral and fellowship work. In addition, in order to investigate some of these key mechanisms of spillover risk, I collaborated with colleagues in Engineering in UAntwerp to develop miniaturised proximity loggers, which we launched into a spin off company, IoSA BV, focussed on low power solutions to investigating key components of animal behaviour.
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: twild@ab.mpg.de
There is clear and growing evidence that anthropogenic impacts on our environment are impacting our quality of life. Spillovers of zoonotic diseases occur more frequently in degraded landscapes where contact between humans and wildlife increase. Restoration has been flagged as a key tool in our ... [more]

Effects of linear infrastructures on Animal movement - learning from across the world

Rado Seminar by Nilanjan Chatterjee
  • Date: Jul 5, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nilanjan Chatterjee
  • Location: Hybrid meeting
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: akoelzsch@ab.mpg.de
Anthropogenic Linear infrastructures are a major driver of habitat fragmentation and loss, disrupting animal movement and connectivity. It is essential to understand how these infrastructures alter ecological dynamics via their influence on animal behavioural strategies governing space use and, for ... [more]

A Global Perspective on Marine Megafauna Movement and Conservation

Institute Seminar by Ana Sequeira
  • Date: Jul 2, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ana Sequeira
  • Ana is interested in the development of models to assist understanding the marine environment, with a strong emphasis in supporting marine spatial planning and conservation. She has been involved in a range of global projects, and after securing highly competitive fellowships from Pew Trusts (Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation) and from the Australian Research Council (ARC DECRA) she is leading pioneering research as an adjunct research fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and as an Associate Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) in the Movement Ecology of marine megafauna (large, migratory marine vertebrates such as sharks, whales, seals, polar bears).
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ffrisoni@ab.mpg.de
Increasing marine protected areas is a necessary step towards reversing the loss of marine biodiversity, but despite the recent resolutions from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to protect at least 30 % of the ocean, there is no clear pathway for which areas should be elected for ... [more]

Getting Published and Mastering Peer Review

  • Start: Jul 1, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jul 2, 2024 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Brian Cusack, Science Craft
  • Who is you trainer: Dr. Brian Cusack comes from Cork, Ireland and received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007. During his Ph.D. Brian received the kind of mentoring that he continues to consider as the gold-standard for graduate students. After completing his first postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Brian conducted post-doctoral research in evolutionary genomics at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. In February 2012, together with Rick Scavetta, Brian co-founded Science Craft in Berlin. Since then Brian has provided high-level training workshops for more than a thousand researchers throughout Germany as well as in Norway and China.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT1201
  • Host: IMPRS
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
Peer Review is the foundation of the scientific method, providing quality control for published research findings. Yet more than 95% of researchers receive no training in this essential skill, forcing them to learn, by trial and error, how to engage in peer review as authors and reviewers. Science ... [more]

Introduction in Proposal Writing

  • Start: Jun 27, 2024 09:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 28, 2024 05:15 PM
  • Speaker: Dr. Babette Regierer and Dr. Brian Cusack, Science Craft
  • Dr. Babette Regierer joins Science Craft for the instruction of the Applied Proposal Writing workshop. Her 10 years of professional proposal writingand international teaching and consulting experience encompass 200 proposal consultations and active participation in writing more than 50 proposals. This has informed her design and teaching of proposal writing courses at Pearls – Potsdam Research Network. · Dr. Brian Cusack is a native English-speaking scientist with over 15 years of scientific writing, editing and publishing experience in high-ranking scientific journals. Dr Brian Cusack comes from Cork, Ireland and received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007. During his Ph.D. Brian received the kind of mentoring that he continues to consider as the gold-standard for graduate students. After completing his first postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Brian conducted post-doctoral research in evolutionary genomics at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. In February 2012, together with Rick Scavetta, Brian co-founded Science Craft in Berlin. Since then Brian has provided high-level training workshops for more than a thousand researchers throughout Germany as well as in Norway and China.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT1201
  • Host: IMPRS
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
This two-day workshop enables life scientists to write grants and fellowships that get their research funded! The participants learn how to view proposal writing as a competition in a marketplace of research ideas and as an instrument for career advancement, develop and sell a research idea by ... [more]

Fate of the Caribou: Movements, Memory and Coproduction of Knowledge

Institute Seminar by Eliezer Gurarie
  • Date: Jun 25, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eliezer Gurarie
  • Dr. Elie Gurarie is a professor of wildlife ecology at the State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle and has worked at the Universities of Finland, Maryland and Wisconsin, with a breadth of field experience in various mostly Arctic and sub-Arctic marine and terrestrial systems. He studies, broadly, the mechanisms by which animals navigate and thrive (or fail to thrive) in dynamic and complex environments. He combines spatial and movement ecology with population and community ecology, developing novel statistical and methodological tools and occasional theory, with an eye both on fundamental questions in ecology and highly applied problems in conservation.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ehurme@ab.mpg.de
Caribou and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) are perhaps the single most important terrestrial animal in the Arctic: an ecological keystone that is also of incalculable material and cultural importance to circumpolar Indigenous communities. Their migrations, spanning the northern edges of the boreal ... [more]

Introducing a new app for 3D visualization of bird flight in the environmental context

Rado Seminar by Dagmara Pasiak
  • Date: Jun 21, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dagmara Pasiak
  • Location: Hybrid meeting
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: enourani@ab.mpg.de
Understanding and visualizing animal movement, particularly through bird tracking data, is essential across various disciplines for benefits such as conservation planning and climate change monitoring. Traditional analysis tools like R, while powerful, fall short in offering interactive and 3D ... [more]

Understanding the evolution of social relationships: Lessons from comparative research

Institute Seminar by Delphine de Moor
  • Date: Jun 18, 2024
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Delphine de Moor
  • My research investigates the selective pressures and evolutionary fitness outcomes of social relationships. I combine broad-scale, comparative analyses of social structure across species with longitudinal analyses of social relationships within species, with a particular focus on macaques. I have a BSc and MSc in Biology from the University of Ghent, a PhD degree in Behavioural Ecology from the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center, and am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: gabriella.gall@ab.mpg.de
Dimensions of the social environment consistently emerge as some of the strongest predictors of fitness across a broad range of social mammals. This includes taxa spanning hundreds of millions of years of independent evolution and encompassing a highly diverse set of social relationship types. How ... [more]
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