Past Events

Good Scientific Practice - Avoid Research Misconduct

Date: Sep 26, 2023
Speaker: Michael Mende
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-7786
Location: University of Konstanz
Room: K7
Host: Chair Couzin, Michael Mende
Contact: michael.mende@uni-konstanz.de

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Doctoral defense by Duo Chen

Supervised by Mark van Kleunen

Date: Sep 25, 2023
Time: 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Duo Chen
Location: online

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Support international Conservation with your analysis Apps in MoveApps

Rado Seminar

Date: Sep 22, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Andrea Kölzsch, Anne Scharf, Kamran Safi and the EMAC23 workshop participants
Location: Hybrid meeting
Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: akoelzsch@ab.mpg.de

As our MoveApps platform for easy analysis of movement data is gaining more and more users of the world of animal conservation and management, we aim at motivating the community to equip it with useful Apps for relevant conservation use cases. In our workshop “Equip MoveApps for Conservation”, held ... [more]

IMPRS Bridge Funding

Date: Sep 15, 2023
Time: 11:59 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Konstanz
Host: IMPRS
Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de

The IMPRS bridge funding aims to enable IMPRS doctoral students without funding to finish their doctoral project. The IMPRS funding may be approved upon application for a maximum of six months and only covers salary (contract based on TVöD 13, 65%) but no travel, fees, equipment. This additional ... [more]

Doctoral defense by Lara Keicher

Supervised by Dina Dechmann

Date: Sep 8, 2023
Time: 03:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Lara Keicher
Location: University of Konstanz
Room: G0227

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From thermoregulation to movement, cardiovascular physiology and personality

Institute Seminar by Paul Schaeffer

Date: Sep 5, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Paul Schaeffer
Dr. Paul Schaeffer is an Associate Professor at Miami University interested in the study of muscle plasticity and its implications in organismal energy balance.
Location: MPI in Möggingen
Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de

While ectotherms generally are dependent upon external heat sources, thermoregulation can be very precise in some species and contexts. For some species, conformity to the external temperatures is the rule. For those species that do thermoregulate, there is very little known about the costs of this ... [more]

AniMove

Summer School

Start: Aug 7, 2023
End: Aug 18, 2023
Speaker: Martina Scacco, Hannah Williams
Location: University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada
Host: University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Contact: bkeeves@ab.mpg.de

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Umwelt

A nocturnal animal gathering

Date: Jul 28, 2023
Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Artists from India and Germany
Artists include fellows from Akademie Schloss Solitude and researchers from MPI-AB
Location: Kula Kulturladen Konstanz
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: hnaik@ab.mpg.de

Step out of the heat and into the cool of a laboratory where sound and science are recombined. On Friday 28th July, KULA club becomes a test tube of musical experimentation. Artists from Germany and India will reinterpret the sounds of science from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. [more]

Interconnectivity of non-breeding sites in White Storks

Rado Seminar by Chris Menne

Date: Jul 28, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Chris Menne
Location: Hybrid meeting
Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de

In my thesis, I aimed to find where stopovers are located, how they are connected, and where social information can flow. Subsequently, I built a network using the stopovers to identify which may be most important for social information flow and analyzed how they overlap in their temporal use. I ... [more]

Themes and Variations in Animal Behavior

Institute Seminar by Gordon Berman

Date: Jul 25, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gordon Berman
Dr. Gordon Berman is an Associate Professor of Biology at the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the intricate interactions that underlie the temporal ordering, control, and evolution of an organism’s movements, attempting to unearth general organizing principles that apply across species.
Location: University of Konstanz
Room: ZT1202 + online
Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Contact: jgraving@ab.mpg.de

Animal behavior consists of an intricate hierarchy of dynamics, from brief muscle twitches to stereotyped behaviors to longer-lived states like hunger, aggression, and parenting. How does an animal bridge these timescales to create complex sequences of actions? The approach that most researchers ... [more]