Past Events

AI workshop with Prof. Dr. Daniel Mertens

by ScientistsNeedMore Schiller & Mertens

Beginn: 18.04.2024 09:00
Ende: 19.04.2024 17:00
Ort: University of Konstanz
Raum: K7

Next Level Scientific Writing with AI [mehr]

Hierarchical statistical models in wildlife ecology

Institute Seminar by Rahel Sollmann

only online
Datum: 16.04.2024
Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
Vortragende(r): Rahel Sollmann
I studied biology at the University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, where I obtained my Diploma in 2006. I obtained my PhD from the Free University Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in 2011, with a dissertation on the ecology and conservation of jaguars in the central Brazilian Cerrado savannah. I spent the next 10 years in the USA, first as a post-doc in Dr. Beth Gardner’s lab at North Carolina State University (2011-2015), developing and applying hierarchical statistical models to questions of wildlife ecology and management. This was followed by a 1-year postdoc with the US Forest Service in Davis, CA, using HSMs to study the impact of fire and fire management on wildlife. In 2016, I was hired as an Assistant Professor for Quantitative Ecology at the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis. I stayed at UC Davis for five years, teaching introductory statistics and principles of sampling wildlife to undergraduates, and working with graduate students on applying HSM to different questions of wildlife ecology and conservation. In 2021 I moved to Berlin for my current position as Senior Scientist in the Department of Ecological Dynamics at the IZW, where I have been continuing my work on HSM in wildlife research.
Ort: online
Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Kontakt: cmonteza@ab.mpg.de

Knowing how many species or individuals occur at a given place and time is fundamental to many questions in wildlife ecology, conservation and management. Enumerating wildlife, however, is complicated by our imperfect and varying (with method, species, habitat, etc) ability to detect animals. In ... [mehr]

Addressing the biodiversity crisis through collaborations: the role of camera trapping

Rado Seminar by Fabiola Iannarilli

Datum: 12.04.2024
Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
Vortragende(r): Fabiola Iannarilli
Ort: Hybrid meeting
Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Kontakt: ddechmann@ab.mpg.de

Growing threats to biodiversity require timely information on the status of wild populations worldwide. Standardized, large-scale monitoring programs are critical to assess population trends and track progress toward the biodiversity and sustainable goals identified by several international ... [mehr]

Doctoral defense by Conor Heins

Supervised by Iain Couzin

Datum: 10.04.2024
Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 18:30
Vortragende(r): Conor Heins
Ort: University of Konstanz
Raum: ZT1204

This doctoral thesis delves into the convergence of complex systems science, cognitive science, and statistical inference, to probe the phenomena of collective behavior—where autonomous entities such as cells, birds, or humans exhibit coordination that eclipses their individual capacities. Central ... [mehr]

Social mitigation of infection risk in animal societies

Institute Seminar by Matthew Silk

Datum: 09.04.2024
Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 11:30
Vortragende(r): Matthew Silk
I did my PhD and 2 post-doc contracts at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation and Environment and Sustainability Institute in Cornwall, UK. My PhD used social network methods to understand the social structure of a migratory geese. My post-docs then applied these skills at the interface of social behaviour, infectious disease and population ecology. I continued these research themes through a short post-doc with Nina Fefferman and at the University of Tennessee and a MSCA fellowship at CEFE in Montpellier. I have now just started as a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, with my research focused on the role of social networks in longer-term infectious disease dynamics.
Ort: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
Raum: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
Gastgeber: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Kontakt: gabriella.gall@ab.mpg.de

Infectious disease risk can represent a key cost of social interactions. Therefore, quantifying how individuals mitigate this risk, while maximising social benefits can help us understand how individual social behaviour evolves and scales up to group and population-level social structure and ... [mehr]

Career Day for Doctoral Researchers in Natural Sciences

Career Day for Doctoral Researchers

Datum: 25.03.2024
Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 13:00
Vortragende(r): Christine Ludwig and Anja Weidenmüller, Kilometer 1
Ort: University of Konstanz
Raum: M0629

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Orang-Utans und die Evolution der Intelligenz

Eine kostenlose, interaktive Veranstaltung im Konzil

Datum: 14.03.2024
Uhrzeit: 18:30 - 21:00
Vortragende(r): Maria van Noordwijk & Carel van Schaik; Caroline Schuppli
Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie
Ort: Konzil, Hafenstraße 2, 78462 Konstanz
Gastgeber: Max Planck Abteilung für Ökologie der Tiergesellschaften
Kontakt: events@ab.mpg.de

Begleite Max-Planck-Wissenschaftler in Konstanz auf einer Exkursion in den Regenwald, um die Evolution der Intelligenz zu erforschen. [mehr]

Lernen wie ein Orang-Utan

Eine kostenlose, interaktive Veranstaltung für Kinder im Alter von 5-10 Jahren

Datum: 14.03.2024
Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
Vortragende(r): Orang-Utan-Forscher
Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie
Ort: Konzil, Hafenstraße 2, 78462 Konstanz
Gastgeber: Max-Planck-Abteilung für die Ökologie von Tiergesellschaften
Kontakt: events@ab.mpg.de

Du denkst, Schule ist schwer? Versuche zu lernen wie ein Orang-Utan. Treffe Wissenschaftler aus Konstanz, um zu entdecken, was Orang-Utans in ihrer Dschungelschule lernen. [mehr]

IMPRS Faculty Retreat

Faculty Retreat

Datum: 01.03.2024
Ort: Reichenau Mohren