SoHaPi 2 Retreat in June 2019 (German Primate Center, Göttingen)
In June, the SoHaPi 2 crew met in Göttingen for their retreat. This time, our meeting focused on gut microbiomes and we welcomed our two guests Katherine Amato (Northwestern University, Evanston) and Tuomas Aivelo (University of Helsinki, Helsinki). Thanks to our speakers, we got intriguing insights into the effects ecological, social and phylogenetic factors can have on gut microbiomes in humans and non-human primates; and we learned about host-parasite interactions in mouse lemurs and ticks and got introduced to the Helsinki Urban Rat Project (HURP). We also caught up on the progress of each PhD project, continued our discussion on measuring social bonds and made plans for future retreats.
 Katherine Amato presenting her work on gut microbiomes in humans and non-human primates. |
 Tuomas Aivelo giving a talk on parasite-host interactions in lemurs, ticks and rats. |
Post-doc position for our former SoHaPi PhD candidate Nadine Müller-Klein
Congratulations to Nadine on her first Post Doc position in the “Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics” Department at Ulm University, starting in April 2019!
Social Bond Meeting in Braunschweig (March 2019)
In March 2019, the SoHaPi 2 members met for a one-day get-together in Braunschweig, to discuss the difficult topic of measuring and comparing social bonds in different taxa. PhD candidate Virgile Manin presented the progress of his work on measuring social bonds in chimpanzees, which ended in a fruitful discussion. The meeting ended with a brief update on the progress in Project 8 (“Interactions of social organization and parasite and symbiont diversity”) by our Post Doc Jan Gogarten.
