scientific programme
Special Focus
In 2008, the conference's special focus will be on Interspecific interactions. Surrounding the conference's special focus will be a number of thematic workshops ("Science Market") and general sessions.
Plenary Lectures
Plenary Lectures in relation to the special focus will be given by Louis Lefebvre (Montréal, Canada), Redouan Bshary (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Robert Poulin (Otago, New-Zeland).
Science market: workshops and symposia
A distinctive feature of the ECBB, the Science Market is for any topic that fits within the study or animal behaviour and may have various formats (round table discussion, film presentation, symposium, poster-discussions, discussion of grant application, workshops). We have reserved a number of rooms of various sizes for parallel sessions lasting for 2 to 3 hours. We ask for suggestions on the Science Market to be made ASAP to bruno.faivre@u-bourgogne.fr and gabriele.sorci@u-bourgogne.fr (subject ECBB Science Market). The deadline for submitting a proposal for the Science Market is 30 January. The selected organizers will then be asked to coordinate their session. Abstracts talks should be submitted for inclusion in the abstract book.
Workshops and symposia programme (as of today):
- - "Human - animal social relationships: functions and mechanisms" organized by Clive Wynne and Kurt Kotrschal
- - "Leadership and group decision making in animals" organized by Odile Petit and Richard Bon
- - "30th anniversary of the Ethological Society" organized by Redouan Bshary
- - "What's for dinner? Predator perception and cognition in the evolution of prey defences" organized by Candy Rowe and John Skelhorn
- - "The ecology of personality: current status and perspectives" organized by Denis Réale, Niels J. Dingemanse and Jonathan Wright
- - "Brain size and behaviour" organized by Sue Healy and Candy Rowe
- - "Parasite-mediated behavioural manipulation: from mechanisms to evolution" organized by Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot, Thierry Rigaud and Frank Cézilly
- - "New perspectives in aggression" organized by Bob Elwood
Spoken and poster papers
We are able to accommodate spoken and posters papers (size: 100 x 120 cm) related to the conference's special focus, or any other area of behavioural biology, within or outside the Science Market. Two poster sessions (with drinks) will be scheduled from 17h30 to 19h on two different days. See abstract submission page.
Scientific committee:
- Dr. Loïc Bollache
- Prof. Frank Cézilly
- Dr. FX Dechaume-Moncharmont
- Prof. Bruno Faivre
- Dr. Jérôme Moreau
- Dr. Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot
- Dr. Thierry Rigaud
- Dr. Gabriele Sorci
