[ceevol] CEE Autumn Symposium 25 November: Human and Animal Behaviour

  • From: "Reuter, Max" <m.reuter@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:45:31 +0000

Dear all,

I am happy to announce the upcoming CEE Autumn Symposium "Bridging the Gap 
between Human and Animal Behaviour Researchers".

The symposium will take place in the Institute of Zoology's Huxley Theatre on 
Friday November 25th, from 10am-3pm. The programme is posted below and can also 
be viewed on the CEE website (http://www.ceevol.org.uk).

The symposium is organised by Ursula Paredes (ursula.paredes@xxxxxxxxxxxx).

Hoping to see you all there, Max




10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee Biscuits
10:30- Welcome to attendants
Session 1: A Positive example of cross-discipline collaboration to study 
behaviour
10:45 11:05 Multidisciplinary efforts to understand behaviour: David Skuse 
(UCL)–The GEBACO project on cooperative behaviour.

Session 2: Parallels between studies zoological and psychiatric approaches to 
understand animal emotion
11:10-11:35 Stuart Semple (Roehampton): Stress physiology in non-human primates 
from an evolutionary psychology point of view.
11:35-12:00 Cathy Fernandes (IoP-KCL): Genomic and Epigenomic rodent models for 
stress and emotion.

Lunch break
Session 3: New promises from non-model organisms for understanding emerging 
questions on animal behaviour 
1:15-1:40pm Chris Faulkes (QMUL):  Social evolution in cooperatively-breeding 
mammals. 
1:40-2:05 pm Seirian Sumner (IoZ): Molecular advances on insect sociality
2:05-3pm: Open discussion





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Max Reuter
                                         
Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment
Faculty of Life Sciences
University College London

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Department: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gee
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