International Student Course in Behavioural Biology 2021

Ethology meets Psychology in the light of Evolution

Organised by the Institut Francilien d'Éthologie (online only)
on 8 January 2021, from 10am to 6pm (CET)

Course Description

This online course is free of charge, and is offered to students and young researchers (Master students, PhD students, Post docs) in behavioural sciences and related disciplines. It will consist of talks by international senior researchers and of poster presentations by participating students. See conference programme below.

All students will receive a certificate of participation, including (if applicable) a certificate for their poster presentation.

Students are strongly encouraged to prepare and present a poster with the results of their research project.

The posters will be presented in virtual rooms and will be evaluated by a committee of international researchers. During this evaluation, you will have the chance to directly discuss with and to receive feedback from international experts in behavioural sciences.

For poster registration, only the title is needeed, no poster abstract is required (see registration form). Posters (in English) should be formatted in landscape (slide) format, so they can be easily displayed on a computer screen. Here is a poster format template for download. More details on the poster presentation will follow soon.

Registration is now closed

Due to the very high number of registrations, we have now reached the technical limit of our virtual conference organization. Thus, we unfortunately need to close the option for any further conference registrations.

All persons who have already registered should have received a confirmation mail by now, and will receive another email including a ZOOM link to connect to the conference on the 6/7 January 2021. This mail will also include details about how to connect to the virtual poster rooms.

Participants who will present a poster should send their posters as a pdf (see poster template) to
this email address until the 4 January 2021 the latest.

Programme

The online course will include plenary talks by international speakers in the morning session and in the late-afternoon session. Between these sessions, there will be poster presentations in different virtual rooms.

The conference programme can be downloaded here. More details are communicated by email to all registered participants

Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
Dr. Simone Pika	Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany	Gestural communication in non-human animals: The past, the present, and the future
Dr. Carla Aimé	LECD, Université Paris Nanterre, France	Exploring the evolutionary roots of musicality : a comparative and interdisciplinary approach
Dr. Rana Esseily	LECD, Université Paris Nanterre, France	Social categorization in children: how social cues guide prosocial behavior and cultural distance perception
Dr. Anindita Bhadra	IISER Kolkata, India	Dog's best friend? Lessons from free-ranging dogs in India
Dr. Nick Bos	Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Recognition of identity in social insects