Programme

7. Thementagung der Ethologischen Gesellschaft
New Perspectives in Behavioural Development

Münster, 23.-25.02.2012 (Lecture Hall Badestraße 9)

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Thursday, 23.02.3012

17:00 Registration desk opens

18:15 - 18:30 Welcome to Münster

18:30 - 19:15 Plenary lecture by John Capitanio
Individual differences matter! Some (surprising) causes and consequences of variation in biobehavioral organization in rhesus monkeys

19:30 Welcome reception (Lecture Hall lobby)

Friday 24.02.2012

09:00 - 09:45 Plenary lecture by Sylvia Kaiser
The modulation of behavioural profiles by the social environment during early phases of life

09:45 - 10:05 Gudrun Illmann
Do sows respond to neonatal sibling competition during nursing?

10:05 - 10:25 Susanne Waiblinger
Effects of social environment during the first 12 weeks of life on challenge responses of primiparous dairy cows

10:25 - 10:45 Rebecca Heiming
Living in a dangerous world decreases maternal care: a study in serotonin transporter knockout mice

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break (Lecture Hall lobby)

11:15 - 11:35 Stefanie Finger
Paternal care vs. mate guarding in Campbell’s dwarf hamster Phodopus campbelli

11:35 - 11:55 Anja Günther
Development of personality in a precocial rodent: The importance of early environment

11:55 - 12:15 Mirjam Knörnschild
Development of courtship behaviour in the greater sac-winged bat, Saccopteryx bilineata

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 13:50 Nikolaus von Engelhardt
Effects of day length during early development on zebra finch maturation & behaviour

13:50 - 14:10 Nayden Chakarov
Sex allocation is independent of fitness predictors in common buzzards

14:10 - 14:30 Tim Ruploh
The social environment at adolescence shapes sexually relevant behavior of adult male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

14:30 - 14:50 Stephanie Lürzel
Social modulation of the stress response during adolescence

14:50 - 15:10 Nils Cordes
What influences risk-taking behaviour in wax moths?

15:10 - 15:30 Poster talks

15:30 - 16:30 Coffee break/Poster viewing (Lecture Hall lobby)

16:30 - 17:15 Plenary lecture by Barbara Taborsky
The adaptive value and evolution of developmental plasticity

17:15 - 18:30 Meeting of members “Ethologische Gesellschaft”

19:30 Conference Dinner (Café Uferlos)

Saturday 25.02.2012

09:00 - 09:45 Plenary lecture by Volker Stefanski
Early life matters: Consequences for behavior and immunity

09:45 - 10:05 Anni Hämäläinen
Seasonal age effect in glucocorticoid levels of free-living mouse lemurs

10:05 - 10:25 Neele Meyer
Modulation of inter-male aggression by central oxytocin

10:25 - 10:45 Philip Kohlmeier
Olfactory kin recognition in a songbird

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break (Lecture Hall lobby)

11:15 - 11:35 Tobias Krause
Are olfactory cues involved in nest recognition in two species of social estrildid finches?

11:35 - 11:55 Yvonne Würz
Zebra finch personality

11:55 - 12:15 Benjamin Zipser
"Personality" in laboratory mice: A way of understanding standardisation-resistant variability?

12:15 - 13:00 Plenary lecture by Helene Richter
Same same but different - Standardization and reproducibility in animal experimentation

13:00 Farewell