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.
Conferences in February 2019
In February 2019, some of our SoHaPi students and PIs visited two conferences: the “14th Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft” in Hannover and the “16th conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie” in Göttingen. In Hannover, SoHaPi PhD candidate Katja Rudolph presented her newest findings on “The interplay of sociality, ecology, hormones and the gut microbiome composition of wild Verreaux’s sifakas” and won the “Gwinner Award” for the best student talk. CONGRATULATIONS KATJA! In Göttingen, SoHaPi PhD candidates Charlotte and Katja, and former PhD candidate Nadine Müller gave great presentations about their work. Charlotte spoke about "Determinants of parasite richness at the individual, group and population level in wild redfronted lemurs", Nadine focused on "Social and environmental transmission of gastrointestinal parasites in semi free-ranging Barbary macaques", and Katja presented her results "On the relationship among group size, health and ecology in a wild lemur population".