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2024

Graduate Meeting Behavioural Biology 2024

The next Graduate Meeting is planned for 16-18 October in Dummerstorf (near Rostock) at the FBN.

The meeting will be accompanied by two plenary speakers:

Dr Pizza Chow (University of Chester)

Problem-solving in wild squirrels

 Dr Katja Liebal (University of Leipzig)

Children’s attitudes towards other animals – a cross-cultural developmental approach

2023

Brief report: Graduate Meeting Behavioural Biology 2023

The joint Graduate Meeting of the Behavioural Biology Section of the German Zoological Society (DGZ) and the Ethological Society (EthoGes) took place in Bielefeld from 08.11-10.11.2023. The three-day programme included two excellent plenary talks, outstanding oral presentations by students and an exciting poster session.

The plenary talks were held by Dr Angela Stöger (Institute for Sound Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences) on communication and cognition in elephants and by Dr Antonino Calapai (Primate Centre Göttingen) on a new adaptive approach to cognitive training in captive primates. Young scientists – Master to Postdoc level – gave 16 exciting talks on various topics such as animal welfare, social behaviour, cognition and behavioural physiology. During the poster session, five interesting posters were examined and discussed in detail. In a joint workshop, all participants, including the two plenary speakers, additionally discussed questions relating to science and academic life. The event was closed with a guided tour of the Department of Behavioural Biology at Bielefeld University.

With over 30 participants in total, the Graduate Meeting of Behavioural Biology was a successful event. Thanks to grants from the DZG and EthoGes, the Graduate Meeting could be held without a participation fee.

Two presentation prizes were awarded to: Elena Groneberg (“Lefty or righty? Investigating behavioural lateralisation in rats”) and Annkatrin Pahl (“Dwarf goats show altruistic behaviour in a novel food giving paradigm”).

The poster prize went to Jana Deutsch (“Goats staring at video screens – behavioural responses of goats to images of familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics”).

Registration open for the joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG

You can register now! We are looking forward to your registration.

Here are some important key dates:
Abstract deadline: 15th of September
Registration (attendance without presentation) deadline: 13th of October

Joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG

This year’s graduate meeting will take place from 08.11. – 10.11.2023 in Bielefeld.

We cordially invite Bachelor and Master students, PhD students and early postdocs to present their results in the form of a talk or poster in an informal and friendly atmosphere and to discuss with their peers.

As guests, Dr. Angela Stöger (University of Vienna) & Dr. Antonino Calapai (German Primate Center Göttingen) will accompany this meeting.

There will be no registration fees. The conference language will be English. We will inform about the registration formalities and further details here soon.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

2022

30.11. – 01.12.2022 Virtual Graduate Meeting of the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG

Keynote speaker:

Mirjam Knörnschild

Tobias Krause

Anja Guenther

2019

23.10. – 25.10.2019 Joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön

Keynote speaker:

Prof. Dr. Heiko Rödel

Dr. Barbara Caspers

Prof. Walter Arnold

2017

11.05. – 12.05.2017 Joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG at the Institute of Animal Welfare & Animal Husbandry

Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Celle

Keynote speaker:

Marc Naguib

Lars Schrader

Wiebke Schuett

2016

03.-05.06.2016 Joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG at the Biological Station Gülpe (University of Potsdam)

Keynote speaker:

Julia Ostner

Tim Caro