Past seminars
Past seminars
Please find below a listing of the seminars we have enjoyed since 2008.
When | Time | Description | Location | Add to Calendar |
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1 December 2017 | 14:00 | Prof Emily Shepard (Swansea University), Life in fickle airscapesThe 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 finchesThe 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 perspectiveThe 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 theoryThe 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 tbcThe 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 tbcThe 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 mandrillsThe 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 tbcThe 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 officinalisThe 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 fliesThe 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 birdsThe 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 selectionThe 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 underThe 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 NeedsThe 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 interactorsThe 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 playThe 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 languageThe 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 coloniesThe 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 memoryThe 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 WelfareThe 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 confirmedThe 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 fishThe 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 titThe 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 conflictThe 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 reticulateThe 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 speciesThe 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 TBCThe 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 TBCThe 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 TBCThe 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 TBCThe 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 BehaviourThe 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 CognitionThe 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 |
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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 |