Nadine defended!!!
On August 7th 2018, Nadine Müller successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on the costs and benefits of scoiality in semi-free ranging Barbary macaques, investigating the links between Barbary macaque sociality, physiology and gastrointestinal parasites. She is the 2nd student of the SoHaPi group to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen. We wish her all the best for the future!
Annual SoHaPi Workshop in June 2018 (RKI Berlin)
From June 7-8, 2018, the SoHaPi 2 PIs and all available PhD students and Postdocs met at the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin). With pleasure we welcomed our three guest speakers Dr. Ben Dantzer, Prof. Dr. Emanuel Heitlinger and Dr. Andreas Berghänel, who gave us new insights into links of ecology and hormones in North American red squirrels, novel approaches and techniques in microbiological analyses, and new findings on pre-natal stress effects in chimpanzees, respectively.
Kickoff Retreat SoHaPi 2 in February 2018
On February 5 & 6, all old and new members of the research group met for a first retreat of the 2nd SoHaPi round in Uslar/ Volpriehausen. We introduced each other, discussed methods and aims and exchanged our impressions and experiences from the first round. After a joint dinner, we ended the first day with a great picture show of our different field sites. What a great start!
