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Seminars in Seewiesen

2009

17. December 2009: Information sharing at communal roosts: strategies of recruitment & defence of food bonanzas by ravens. Jonathan Wright, Professor of Ethology, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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3. December 2009: The avian midbrain: Cells, Circuits, Concepts. Harald Luksch, Chair of Zoology, Technische Universität München
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19. November 2009: Frog Calls and Cocktail Parties. Mark A. Bee, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
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11. November - 13. November 2009: Meeting for graduate students (PhD students), organized by the DZG Fachgruppe Behavioural Biology and the Ethologische Gesellschaft
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009: Mechanisms and evolution of chorusing interactions in acoustic insects and anurans, Michael D. Greenfield, IRBI, CNRS UMR 6035, Université François Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France
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Thursday, 16 July 2009: Sexual selection, male reproductive phenotypes, and sexual differentiation, Hubert Schwabl, School of Biological Sciences, Center for Reproductive Biology Washington State University
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Thursday, 30 April 2009: Genetics and movement, Yoshan Moodley, Konrad Lorenz Institut, Vienna

Tuesday, 28 April 2009: Causes and consequences of avian personality: integrating Tinbergen’s four questions, Kees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Heteren
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009: Insights into Elaboration, Innovation, and Speciation in Australian Bowerbirds using some principles of visual physiology, John A. Endler, Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, UK and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Australia
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009: Genotype-phenotype correlations in the great reed warbler, Bengt Hansson, Dept of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
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Thursday, 26 March 2009: MHC genes as small dishes on a Swedish Smorgasbord, Helena Westerdahl, Department of Molecular Population Biology, University of Lund, Sweden
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Friday, 20 March 2009: Sexual Selection and Communication in Túngara Frogs: Brain, Behavior and Evolution, Mike Ryan, University of Texas
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Thursday, 26 February 2009: Alternative mating tactics and mating system evolution, Bryan Neff, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, Canada
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Thursday, 12 February 2009: Mystery of the circannual clock, Gerald Lincoln, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
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Thursday, 22 January 2009: Smelly posts, loud calls, and erect penises: signalling identity and its consequences in complex social systems, Heribert Hofer, Nicole Burgener, Marion L. East, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin
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2008

Thursday, 18 December 2008: Pleistocene genomes, past migrations and red-haired Neanderthals: ancient DNA in the 3rd millenium , Michael Hofreiter, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Thursday, 11 December 2008: The Neurobiology of the Naked Mole-Rat: Adaptations to Extreme Environmental Challenges , Thomas Park, Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Thursday, 4 December 2008: The cognitive architecture of a mini brain, Martin Giurfa, Research Centre on Animal Cognition, CNRS - University Paul Sabatier
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Thursday, 20 November 2008: Possible mechanisms of memory consolidation during sleep, Steffen Gais, Emmy-Noether-research group in the department of General and Experimental Psychology, LMU Munich
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Thursday, 6 November 2008: Predation risk, body mass and the health of species, Johan Lind, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution / Department of Zoology, Stockholm University
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Thursday, 30 October 2008: The coevolutionary arms race between social parasites and their hosts, Susanne Foitzik, Department Biologie II Behavioral Ecology (Verhaltensökologie) LMU Munich
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Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008: Auf großer Reise - Über die Zukunft der Tierwanderungen, Martin Wikelski, Universität Konstanz / MPI für Ornithologie
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Friday, 17 October 2008: Symposium for Mark Konishi: Owls and Songbirds
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Thursday, 9 Oct 2008: The Global Diversity, Ecology and Function of Birds, Walter Jetz, Biological Sciences - University of California San Diego
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008: Cooperation, coordination and cognition in a social mammal, the Bechstein’s bat, Gerald Kerth, Department Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH
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Monday, 07 April 2008: Seeing the world through the nose of a bird: the sensory ecology of procellariiform seabirds, Gabrielle Nevitt, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis
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Thursday, 7 February 2008: Learning about Sounds in Animals, Peter Slater, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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Thursday, 24 January 2008: Competition, Interference and Predation, Jana Eccard, Department of Animal Behavior, University of Bielefeld
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Thursday, 17 January 2008: How the songbird brain listens to its own songs, Richard Hahnloser, The Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), Zurich/Switzerland
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Thursday, 10 January 2008: The evolution of patience: temporal preferences in primates, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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2007

Thursday, 13 December 2007: The evolution of microendemism on Madagascar, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Biozentrum Grindel, Universität Hamburg
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Thursday, 6 December 2007: Rapid large scale evolutionary divergence in morphology and performance associated with the exploitation of a novel dietary resource in a lizard, Anthony Herrel, University of Antwerp
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Thursday, 22 November 2007: Parent-offspring conflict and co-adaptation: the behavioural ecology and quantitative genetics side of the same coin, Mathias Kölliker, Zoological Institute, Evolutionary Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Thursday, 15 November 2007: Who’s who? Vocal signatures under social and environmental constraints in birds, Nicolas Mathevon, Jean Monnet University and Institut universitaire de France
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Thursday, 8 November 2007: Living with the past: long term effects of early developmental stress in songbirds, Marc Naguib, University Bielefeld
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Thursday, 25 October 2007: Sleep, synaptic homeostasis, and cortical synchronization: A large-scale model of thalamocortical circuitry, Sean Hill, Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne/Switzerland
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Thursday, 11 October 2007: The evolution of sperm design and function, Simone Immler, Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, University of Sheffield
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Thursday, 27 September 2007: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of songbirds to study neuronal plasticity and auditory processing, Annemie Van der Linden, University of Antwerp
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Friday, 6 July 2007: Climate change - What is it all about?, Maiken Winter, Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology
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Thursday, 21 June 2007: Phantom feedback, mirror neurons and brain pathways for vocal learning, Richard Mooney, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University
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Friday, 20 April 2007: Plastic social structures in a small mammal: friends, enemies and kin, Jean-François Le Galliard, Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France
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Thursday, 22 March 2007: Olfactory Evolution in Arthropods, Bill S. Hansson, Dept of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena
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Friday, 22 March 2007: Predator use of prey cues: Learning and flexibility in a frog-eating bat, Rachel Page, Dept. Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Thursday, 15 March 2007: To live in polluted soil Genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying evolution of metal tolerance in springtails, Nico M. van Straalen, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Monday, 12 March 2007: Group signature and "dear enemy" effect: The territorial song of the skylark Alauda arvensis, Thierry Aubin, E. Brieffer and F. Rybak, Bioacoustics team, NAMC CNRS UMR 8620, University Paris Sud, France
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Thursday, 22 February 2007: Demography, behaviour and conservation: how magpie robins, guillemots, and virtual birds link it all together, Hanna Kokko, Dep. of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Thursday, 25 January 2007: Sensory and cognitive ecology of insect-eating mammals – background and plans of the Sensory Ecology Group, Björn Siemers, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen
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Friday, 19 January 2007: Mechanisms of maternal hormone transfer to avian eggs and implications for hormone-mediated maternal effects, Nikolaus v. Engelhardt, Behavioural Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Thursday, 11 January 2007: Genetic differences between migratory and nonmigratory blackcaps – From behaviour to genes , Francisco Pulido, Netherlands Institute of Ecoloy (NIOO-KNAW), CTE, Heteren
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2006

Monday, 18 December 2006: Der wilde Osten / The wild East, Dietmar Nill, Naturphotograph / Nature photographer, Mössingen
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Thursday, 14 December 2006: Vocal evolution: the interplay between selection and mechanisms, Carel ten Cate, Behavioural Biology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Thursday, 7 December 2006: Lateralization of Spatial Cognition in Birds, Helmut Prior, Allg. Psychologie I, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
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Thursday, 23 November 2006: Cognitive Ecology of Foraging by Flower Bats: Knowing Where and Knowing When: York Winter, University of Bielefeld
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Thursday, 16 November 2006: Following the path of stable isotopes in tropical rainforest ecosystems: Christian C. Voigt, Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin
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Thursday, 9 November 2006 and Friday, 10 November 2006: Final Workshop of the Gwinner Department
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Thursday, 12 October 2006: Scientific Information Resources of the MPS: Benjamin F. Bowman, Information Retrieval Services for the Bio.-Med. Section of the Max Planck Society, Martinsried/Munich
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Thursday, 5 October 2006: The sixth sense: the power of bats’ echo imaging: Lutz Wiegrebe, Neurobiology, Biocentre, University of Munich
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Thursday, 28 September 2006: Diversity and functional significance of echolocation in neotropical bats: Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm and STRI, Panama
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