Past seminars

Please find below a listing of the seminars we have enjoyed since 2008.

When	Time	Description	Location
1 December 2017	14:00	Prof Emily Shepard (Swansea University), Life in fickle airscapes The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
24 November 2017	14:00	Dr Mark Whiteside (Pheasant Ecology & Cognition Group, University of Exeter): "The welfare of game birds destined for release into the wild: a balance between early life care and preparation for future natural hazards" The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer Room 105
3 November 2017	14:00	Dr Sabine Tebbich (University of Vienna), Behavioural changes in an invasive parasitic fly and its avian hosts, the Darwin’s finches The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
9 December 2016	14:00	Dr Elli Leadbeater (Royal Holloway) - What evolves in the evolution of social learning? A social insect perspective The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
25 November 2016	14:00	Prof. John McNamara (University of Bristol) - Towards a richer evolutionary game theory The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
18 November 2016	14:00	Dr Rene van Dijk (University of Sheffield) - seminar title tbc The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
11 November 2016	14:00	Dr Josh Firth (Edward Grey Institute, Oxford) - seminar title tbc The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
28 October 2016	14:00	Professor Jo Setchell (Durham University) - A resplendent mammal: Sexual selection and multi-modal signalling in mandrills The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Mood Disorders Centre G17
7 October 2016	14:00	Dr Jayden van Horik (University of Exeter) - seminar title tbc The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
18 March 2016	14:00	Dr Christelle Jozet-Alves - Visual cognition in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
11 March 2016	14:00	CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Dr Paloma Gonzalez Bellido - The time available for motion processing ultimately dictates the attack strategy of predatory flies The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Mood Disorders Centre
4 March 2016	14:00	Dr Sinead English - Long-term effects of the early-life and maternal environment: how common are they, and when are they adaptive? The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
26 February 2016	14:00	Dr Andy Radford - Cooperation and conflict in social birds The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
19 February 2016	14:00	Dr Alessandro Devigili - Sperm tales in guppies: a discovery journey from sexual to artificial selection The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
12 February 2016	14:00	Dr Erin Reardon - Fishes in extreme environments: life under The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
22 January 2016	14:00	Mr Mark Kingston-Jones - Behavioural Management of Captive Animals: Evolutionary, Mental and Physical Needs The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
27 November 2015	14:00	Dr Sean Rands - State-dependent social behaviour: modelling behavioural interactions informed by the physiology of the interactors The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 028
20 November 2015	14:00	Dr Tim W. Fawcett - Anticipating the future: evolutionary explanations for risk sensitivity, contrast effects and animal play The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
13 November 2015	14:00	Lucy Capstick - Factors predicting susceptibility of songbirds to nest predation by corvids. 2) Is predation of artificial nests affected by Magpie territory location? The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
6 November 2015	14:00	Dr Gillian Forrester - Hand and Mouth: What motor laterality reveals about the origins of human language The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
23 October 2015	14:00	Carolina Doran - Collective and individual flexibility in the nest-searching behaviour of ant colonies The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
9 October 2015	14:00	Dr Danielle Sulikowski - Foraging Cognition - Beyond adaptations of spatial memory The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
2 October 2015	14:00	Dr Christian Nawroth - From Primates to Goats: Farm Animal Cognition and Its Implications for Animal Welfare The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
3 April 2015	13:00	Josh Firth - seminar title to be confirmed The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
27 March 2015	13:00	Dr Rob Holbrook - The representation of three-dimensional space in fish The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
13 March 2015	13:00	Dr Ella Cole - Synchrony in phenology in space and time: Fine-scale tracking of environmental change in the great tit The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
6 March 2015	13:00	Dr Pau Carazo - The role of kin selection in the evolution of sexual conflict The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
27 February 2015	13:00	Dr Alessandro Macario - Ontogenetic environments and female mate choice in guppies, Poecilia reticulate The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
20 February 2015	13:00	Dr Jerome Micheletta - Communication and cognition in a socially tolerant macaque species The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
28 November 2014	13:00	Dr Seirian Sumner - seminar title TBC The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
21 November 2014	13:00	Dr Anna Wilkinson - seminar title TBC The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
14 November 2014	13:00	Dr Bibiana Rojas - seminar title TBC The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
24 October 2014	13:00	Dr Jeremy Niven - seminar title TBC The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
10 October 2014	13:00	Dr Lauren Brent - Social Network Based Insights into the Evolution of Animal Behaviour The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105
3 October 2014	13:00	Dr Dan Brooks - Using Genetic Algorithms to Understand Animal Cognition The Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour seminar series. All welcome. Full details	Washington Singer 105

When	Speaker	Title	Where
Friday 11 October 2019 14.00	Ian McLaren	Spatial Navigation in the Morris Water Maze: The Effect of “Inversion”	Washington Singer 105
Tuesday 15 October 2019 14.00	Gonzalo Urcelay	TBA Competition and facilitation in associative learning	Washington Singer 105
Friday 18 October 2019 14.00	Sarah Lane	Animal contests: Insights into injury and skills	Washington Singer 105
Friday 1 November 2019 14.00	Jeremy Niven	Finding a food source a social insect: From movement control to memory formation in the wood ant	Washington Singer 105
Friday 8 November 2019 14.00	Andrew King	The audience decides: exploring technological approaches to understanding social behaviour.	Washington Singer 105
Friday 15 November 2019 14.00	Christina Stanley	Social networks & captive welfare in Livingstone’s fruit bats	Washington Singer 105
Friday 13 December 2019 14.00	Robin Morrison	Multi-level society in Western Lowland Gorillas	Washington Singer 105

Friday 24 January 2019 14.00	Juliane Kaminski	Through a dog's eyes: Domestication and the dog-human bond	Washington Singer 105
Friday 7 February 2019 14.00	Paul Rose	24/7 Animal welfare- meeting the challenge of a positive quality of life in captivity	Washington Singer 105
Friday 14 February 2019 14.00	Matthew Silk	The behavioural and population ecology of endemic disease	Washington Singer 105
Friday 21 February 2019 14.00	Eleanor Caves	Vision and signaling behaviour in cleaner shrimp-client fish mutualisms	Washington Singer 105
Friday 28 February 2019 14.00	Shaun Killen	Fuel and Friends: Links between metabolic rate and social behaviours in fishes	Washington Singer 105
Friday 6 March 2019 15.00	Elodie Mandel-Briefer	The evolution of vocal expression of emotions	Washington Singer 105
Friday 13 March 2019 14.00	Sinead English	CANCELLED	Washington Singer 105
Friday 20 March 2019 14.00	Mike Mendl	TBC Animal welfare and cognition	Washington Singer 105

Date	Speaker	Title
09.03.10	J. Cresswell, University of Exeter	Neurotoxic agricultural pesticides and bees: lethal and/or behavioural impacts
02.03.10	S.E.G. Lea & C. Ryan University of Exeter	The effect of category structure on pigeons' category discrimination.
09.02.10	Kevin Laland University of St Andrews	Animal social learning and the evolution of culture
26.01.10	Malcolm Burgess University of Exeter / Natural England	The pied flycatcher as a model system: woodland management, colouration and adaptation to climatic change.
16.12.2009	Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge	Actions, habits and conflict: Reflections on the castaway's dilemma
15.12.2009	John Endler University of Exeter	Explorations on the Visual Signal Design of Great Bowerbirds
08.12.2009	Humphrey Sitters University of Exeter / International Shore Brid Project	Conservation conflicts in Delaware Bay: shorebirds, crabs, whelks and blue blood
01.12.2009	Tom Tregenza University of Exeter	Polyandry and sexual selection in lab and wild insects.
24.11.2009	Nichola Raihani, Institute of Zoology, London	The function of male aggression within pairs of cleaner fish (Labroides dimidiatus)
17.11.2009	Steve Simpson University of Bristol	Exploring the acoustics of coral reefs to understand fish behaviour
10.11.2009	Craig Sherman Deakin University, Australia	Fine-scale adaptation in a clonal sea anemone
03.11.2009	Almut Kelber Lund University, Sweden	How hawkmoths find flowers
9 March 2009	Alessandro Maccario University of Exeter	Early social environment and female mate preference
2 March 2009	Nick Royle University of Exeter	Stress and the structured family: Antioxidants mediate trade-offs during growth in red-winged blackbirds
23 February 2009	Bjoern Brembs Freie Universität Berlin	Learning the consequences: the neurobiology of state-dependent choice in Drosophila
16 February 2009	Kate Jones Institute of Zoology	Forecasting biodiversity loss
2 February 2009	Will Cresswell University of St Andrews	The non-lethal effects of predation risk
19 January 2009	Peter Vukusic University of Exeter	All Things Bright and Beautiful: Light and Colour Manipulation in Biological Systems
12 January 2009	Graham Martin Birmingham University	Through birds’ eyes: Some adventures and insights in sensory ecology
1 December 2008	Tom Bugnyer University of Vienna	Testing bird brains: social cognition in ravens
24 November 2008	Sasha Dall University of Exeter	Social sensitivity and the evolution of personality differences
17 November 2008	Walter Hödl University of Vienna	Visual signaling in frogs: an overlooked topic of amphibian behavioural ecology?
10 November 2008	Sarah Collins University of Plymouth	Sexual selection and the Human Voice
3 November 2008	Alex Thornton University of Cambridge	Social information transmission in meerkat societies
27 October 2008	Rob Honey University of Cardiff	Configural learning and memory: From neural networks to neural mechanisms
20 October 2008	Innes Cuthill University of Bristol	Camouflage: Biology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Art and War
13 October 2008	Jens Krause University of Leeds	Animal collective behaviour
6 October 2008	Matthias Laska Lingkoping University	Making sense out of scents – Comparative studies of olfactory performance