Past Events

Social and Ecological Pathways in the Evolution of Learning Strategies: Insights from Primates and Beyond

Rado Seminar by Saein Lee
  • Date: Jul 4, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Saein Lee
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
Understanding how animals acquire complex behaviors requires bridging ecological, cognitive, and social perspectives. In this seminar, I will first share findings from my research on wild gibbons, where I examined how immature individuals balance asocial and social learning, and selectively choose ... [more]

Scientific Writing (workshop)

2-tägiger Kurs
  • Start: Jul 3, 2025
  • End: Jul 4, 2025
  • Speaker: Brian Cusack, Science Craft
  • 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
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Cracking Capuchins: Investigation stone tool use by white-faced capuchin monkeys using camera traps

Doctoral defense by Zoë Goldsborough, supervised by Meg Crofoot
  • Date: Jul 1, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zoë Goldsborough
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: D0434 + online
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Rank and social context influence sleep in wild chimpanzees

Institute Seminar by Clara Hozer
  • Date: Jul 1, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Clara Hozer
  • Clara Hozer obtained her PhD at the National Museum of Natural History in France, under the supervision of Fabien Pifferi, where she investigated the links between circadian rhythms, aging, and survival in the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). She then pursued a first postdoctoral position focusing on sleep characteristics in the same species. Following this, she was awarded a Fyssen Foundation fellowship to study sleep in wild chimpanzees at the University of Neuchâtel, under the supervision of Klaus Zuberbühler, for a period of two years.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: nslania@ab.mpg.de
Sleep is vital for health and fitness, and its expression is shaped by ecological and social contexts that may either promote or disturb it. Most research, however, has focused on captive settings, detached from natural environments that can modify the balance between benefits and drawbacks of ... [more]

The Field Trip exhibition

Works from the art-science exchange
  • Date: Jun 27, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Akademie Schloss Solitude
  • Host: Hemal Naik
  • Topic: Open day
  • Contact: hnaik@ab.mpg.de
The EAS "Field Trip" program is being exhibited at the "Open Solitude" event on Friday, June 27, 2025 at the international artist residency Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. [more]

Genomic Pillars of the Social Brain: Lessons from the Honey Bee

Institute Seminar by Gene Robinson
  • Institute seminar moved to MONDAY
  • Date: Jun 23, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gene Robinson
  • Gene E. Robinson (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1986) joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He holds a University Swanlund Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professorship, is director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), and former director of the University's Neuroscience Program. Robinson pioneered the application of genomics to the study of social behavior, has been honored with the Wolf Prize in Agriculture, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, and American Philosophical Society.
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: gkopp@ab.mpg.de
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Blackcap migration - adaptation in time and space

Institute Seminar by Miriam Liedvogel
  • Date: Jun 17, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Miriam Liedvogel
  • Miriam Liedvogel is Director of the Institute of Avian Research “Vogelwarte Helgoland” and Professor of Ornithology at Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg. She is fascinated by the phenomenon of bird migration and with her research asks, how this fascinating behaviour is controlled, coordinated and regulated on the molecular level? To address this question, she links careful behavioural observation and state-of-the-art tracking migration in the wild to carefully characterise migratory behaviour under controlled conditions as well as free flying birds, with whole genome sequencing and gene expression approaches to match genotype to phenotype. Her work is funded through the European Commission (Marie Curie Fellowship), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Feodor Lynen Fellowship), the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Max Planck Society (MPG). Miriam has been awarded various prices and fellowships, e.g. an award for outstanding supervision by the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg (UGO), the JED Williams Medal for her committee work. Besides regularly talking at both national and international scientific conferences, Miriam enjoys to communicate science to children and the general public.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: aflack@ab.mpg.de
Understanding the genetics of bird migration is a long-standing goal in evolutionary biology. Blackcaps Sylvia atricapilla are ideal for this work as different populations exhibit enormous difference in migratory behaviour and little else. We characterize (i) phenotype, population structure and ... [more]

Bat migration and Flight Dynamics

Rado Seminar by Edward Hurme
  • Date: Jun 13, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Edward Hurme
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
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The shrew as a model for brain shrinkage without neurodegeneration" - Practice talk for a conference presentation

Rado Seminar by Cecilia Baldoni
  • Date: Jun 6, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Cecilia Baldoni
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de
I'm preparing a 10-minute talk for the upcoming EMBO Workshop on unconventional vertebrate models in biomedicine. The workshop is targeted at researchers working with non-model species and those in biomedical fields (e.g. tissue regeneration, aging, stem cell biology). I’ll present how the common ... [more]

Sisters, mothers, and others: how kin shape the life-history of an asocial squirrel

Institute Seminar by Caitlin Wells
  • Date: Jun 3, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Caitlin Wells
  • Dr. Caitlin Wells, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. Caitlin is a conservation ecologist whose work integrates evolutionary ecology, animal behavior, and conservation genomics to predict the responses of wild vertebrates to environmental change. Caitlin works with birds (primarily waterfowl) and mammals (rodents, elephants, and primates) of conservation concern, primarily in the mountains and the tropics, with long-term work in Hawaii, the Rocky Mountains, and Uganda. She is currently the PI of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory’s long-term ground squirrel project studying social and reproductive behavior, accelerated aging, life histories, and phenological mismatch under climatic change.
  • Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: bbarrett@ab.mpg.de
Among mammals, the formation of matrilines – multigenerational female kin groups – is thought to be a key transition toward complex social living in primates, carnivores, and ground-dwelling squirrels. The costs and benefits of interactions with female kin have been well-identified for social ... [more]
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