Grand Challenges in “EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES” Symposium

This year, our Grand Challenges Symposium focuses on the Evolutionary Ecology of Individual Differences. We proudly present the following talks:

THURSDAY, 13.10.16

13:45-14:00    Mark van Kleunen (U KN): Welcome address

14:00-15:00    Lucy Aplin (U Oxford): Cultured birds? Social networks and foraging traditions in parids.

15:00-15:40    Coffee (level A5)

15:40-16:00    Alfredo Sánchez Tójar (MPIO): Fitness consequences of individual dominance status in a passerine.

16:00-17:00    Clemens Küpper (U Graz / MPIO): Of fighting residents, emancipated females and sneaky transvestites: mating and parental care strategies in shorebirds.

18:00-20:00    Social Event & Conference Dinner (MPIO seminar room, Möggingen)

20:00-20:10    Mark van Kleunen (U KN): Best student paper award

20:10-20:30    Presentations of the best student papers

FRIDAY, 14.10.16

09:30-10:30    Jonathan Pruitt (U California, Santa Barbara): Keystone Individuals in Spider Societies: Some Pros and Cons. 

10:30-11:10    Coffee (level A5)

11:10-12:10    Alex Jordan (MPIO / U KN): Mechanisms of socially induced variation in individual behaviour.

12:10-12:30    Vivek Sridhar (MPIO / U KN): Modelling individual differences in a collective context.

12:30-13:45    Lunch (Mensa)

13:45-14:45    Pierre-Olivier Montiglio (McGill University): The role of individual behavioral variation in sexual selection: the case of water striders (Aquarius remigis).

14:45-15:05    Eli Jax (MPIO / U KN): Expression profiling of whole blood as a means of detecting an immune response in the mallard.

15:05-15:45    Coffee (level A5)

15:45-16:45    Damien Farine (MPIO): question and answer panel with the plenary speakers (PhD candidates only)