SoHaPi 2 Retreat in November 2018 (MPI Leipzig)
In November 2018, the SoHaPi 2 retreat took place at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. This time, we welcomed our three guest speakers James Higham (NY University, New York), Colin Chapman (McGill University, Montreal), and Malte Rühlemann (Kiel University, Kiel). Thanks to our guests, we gained new insights into behavioural endocrinology on the rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago, behavioural and ecological determinants of social organisations in red colobus monkeys and novel techniques to examine links between the gut microbiome and inflammatory diseases.
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.
