Events: 7th International Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics of Wildlife
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Scientific Programme

 Preliminary programme: (click on separate date to open pdf-file per day)

Monday / 21.09.09

Tuesday / 22.09.09

Wednesday / 23.09.09

Thursday / 24.09.09

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 Main topics

  • Behavioural Ecology
  • Stress & Disturbance
  • Reproduction Biology
  • Conservation Genetics
  • Conservation Biology


Plenary Talks

  • Life History & Maternal Effects (Pat Monaghan, University of Glasgow, UK)
  • Stress & Disturbance (Marco Apollonio, Universita Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)
  • Reproduction Biology (David Wildt, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, USA)
  • Evolutionary Genomics in Conservation (Pierre Taberlet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
  • Conservation Biology (Eric Dinerstein, Director of Science WWF USA, Washington, USA)


Workshops

  • Evolutionary Genomics (Pierre Taberlet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France & Simone Sommer, IZW)
  • Communication in Mammals and Birds (Francesco Bonnadonna, Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Montpellier, France & Martin Dehnhard, IZW)
  • Welfare and Conservation (Eric Dinerstein, WWF-USA, Washington, USA & Marion L. East, IZW)
  • Stable Isotopes, Nutrition and Energetics (Carlos Martinez del Rio, University of Wyoming, USA & Sylvia Ortmann, IZW; Christian Voigt, IZW)
  • Behavioural Rhythms (Serge Daan, University of Groningen, The Netherlands & Anne Berger, IZW)
  • Research by, in, with and for zoos, aquaria and other ex situ-institutions (Kirstin Leus, EAZA & IUCN/SSC:CBSG Europe, Antwerp, Belgium)

The workshop "Non-Invasive Monitoring of Hormones" will take place in the week preceding the Conference
(14th - 18th September 2009). The workshop will be run by Martin Dehnhard, IZW; Rupert Palme, University of Vienna; and Michael Heistermann DPZ, Göttingen.