scientific programme
Special Focus and plenary Lectures
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 in relation to the special focus will be given by Louis Lefebvre (Montréal, Canada), Redouan Bshary (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) and Robert Poulin (Otago, New-Zeland).
Programme (preliminary draft)
Regristration will open Thursday at 17h30, at the congress site (main hall of the "Palais des Congrès"), until 20h00. It will re-open Friday morning just before the conference. To avoid queuing, we encourage you to register on thrusday. Please note that the programm for "open talks" is not definitive yet. Precise time-table will be provided before June 15 (open talks are talks selected outside workshops)
Complete abstract book can be downloaded as pdf file 
| Thursday 17th July | 16h00 - 20h00 | registration at the congress site | 17h00 - 22h00 | ASAB council meeting |
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| Friday 18th July | 8h30 | registration | 9h00 | welcome | 9h30 | plenary 1 | 10h20 | coffee break | 10h45 | leadership and group decision making in animals | predator perception and cognition in the evolution of prey defences | open talks | 12h45 | lunch | 14h00 | leadership and group decision making in animals | predator perception and cognition in the evolution of prey defences | open talks | 16h00 | coffee break | 16h30 | leadership and group decision making in animals | predator perception and cognition in the evolution of prey defences | open talks | 18h30 | poster session |
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| Saturday 19th July | 9h00 | plenary 2 | 9h50 | tributes | 10h05 | coffee break | 10h30 | The ecology of personality: current status and perspectives | 30th anniversary of the Ethological Society | open talks | open talks | 13h00 | lunch | 14h00 | The ecology of personality: current status and perspectives | new perspectives in aggression | open talks | open talks | 16h00 | coffee break | 16h30 | The ecology of personality: current status and perspectives | new perspectives in aggression | open talks | open talks | 18h00 | free time / ASAB annual general meeting / SFECA annual general meeting | 19h00 | departure to banquet |
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| Sunday 20th July | 9h30 | plenary 3 | 10h20 | lecture Tinbergen price | 11h00 | coffee break | 11h30 | open talks | open talks | open talks | 12h45 | lunch | 14h00 | brains size and behaviour | human - animal social relationships: functions and mechanisms | parasite-mediated behavioural manipulation: from mechanisms to evolution | 16h00 | coffee break | 16h30 | brains size and behaviour | human - animal social relationships: functions and mechanisms | parasite-mediated behavioural manipulation: from mechanisms to evolution | 17h30 | end of the congress |
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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:
- "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
- - "The ecology of personality: current status and perspectives" organized by Denis Réale, Niels J. Dingemanse and Jonathan Wright
- - "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
- - "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. The deadline for submitting a proposal for the Science Market is 30 January. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th March. (See other important dates.) Abstracts will not be accepted without the registration fee. The duration of a spoken presentation is 12 min (+ 3 min for questions). Please, be sure that your Powerpoint is compatible with Windows XP (especially if your are using Windows Vista). Some computers will be available at the congress site in order to check your presentation.
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
