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googlemail.comBenjamin Zipser (*1983 in Freiburg i. Br.) gained his first experiences with behavioural biology during secondary school. He participated in the ethological class of the Freiburg-Seminar for Mathematics and Natural Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Immanuel Birmelin and investigated the cognitive abilities of domesticated animals (cats and dogs). After graduation he studied biology at the University of Muenster. He finished his Bachelor's thesis at the Department of Behavioural Biology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser in 2006 in which he investigated anxiety-like behaviour in mice and established a battery of ethological tests which he evaluated regarding validity, selectivity and consistency amongst the paradigms. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser, he finished his Master's thesis with the title "Maternal effects on dominance status and endocrinology of female domestic guinea pigs in dyadic interactions" at the Department of Behavioural Biology and graduated in February 2009. The project investigated the impact of the prenatal environment on the phenotype of female domestic guinea pigs and its adaptive relevance (maternal effects). In May 2009, he started his dissertation entitled "Shaping of Animal Personalities during Adolescence". In male domestic guinea pigs, the housing conditions during adolescence (pairwise with a female or in a mixed-sex colony) result in marked differences regarding aggression as well as courtship and sexual behaviour. The dissertation project aims at understanding whether these behavioural profiles are part of overall animal personalities that can be modified environmentally during adolescence and that are stable contextually as well as temporally into adulthood. The dissertation is integrated in the PhD program of the Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience (OCC) by which the project is currently funded. From April 2011 on the project will be funded by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Memberships Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft e.V. Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Publications |
