SoHaPi 2 Retreat in November 2019 (RKI, Berlin)
The SoHaPi 2 crew met in Berlin for their 2nd retreat this year. The PhD students started off with a very interesting workshop on gender biases and networking given by Peter Kronenberg from NaturalScience.careers (http://naturalscience.careers/en/). On the second and third day, we had vivid discussions about microbiome analyses, communicated updates on the ongoing projects and welcomed our two invited guests, John Baines (MPI for evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany) and Beth Archie (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US). Prof. Baines gave an intriguing presentation on genetic and microbial risk factors for chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Prof. Archie presented her newest work on social integration and gut microbiomes from her long-term field site of the Amboseli Baboon Project.
The students at the workshop.
Beth Archie presenting her work in front of a highly interested crowd of SoHaPis.
John Baines giving insights into risk factors for chronic gastrointestinal diseases in humans.
SoHaPi I PhD student FILIPA PACIÊNCIA defended her thesis!!!
On November 4th 2019, Filipa Paciência successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled: "Behavioral determinants and consequences of the natural spread of a sexually transmitted disease in wild olive baboons". She is the 4th student of the SoHaPi group to receive her Ph.D.. We wish her all the best for the future!
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Visit from Daniel Blumstein in Göttingen
On September 20, 2019, Prof Daniel Blumstein from UCLA visited the SoHaPi group at the German Primate Center in Göttingen. He presented his long-term research on wild yellow-bellied marmots, a facultative social species, and talked about how to build from it to understand the evolution of sociality in other systems. Afterwards, the SoHaPi students got the chance to talk to him about career paths and to discuss some of their own results.
