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Brian D Peer Professor of Biological Sciences at Western Illinois University “Battle for the nest: Coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts” Wednesday, March 1 @ 12pm in BPSB 122 (940 E 57th St)   ABSTRACT: Avian brood parasites … Continue reading →

Dorothy Fragaszy Professor of Psychology, Chair of Behavioral and Brain Science Program, University of Georgia “Hercules with a tail: Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys” THURSDAY, February 9 @ 12pm in BPSB 122 ABSTRACT: Wild capuchin monkeys living … Continue reading →

Comparative Behavioral Biology Presents Melinda Conners Postdoctoral Fellow, Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo “Shadowed by Scale: Behavioral niche partitioning between two albatross species revealed by fine-scale GPS data” Wednesday, January 25 @ 12pm in BPSB 122 ABSTRACT: As synchronous, colonial … Continue reading →

Comparative Behavioral Biology Presents Lydia Hopper Assistant Director, Lester E Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo The Interplay Between Agency and Memory in Primate Social Learning Wednesday, January 11 @ 12pm in BPSB 122 … Continue reading →

COMPARATIVE BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY PRESENTS:  TIMOTHY BRAWN University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, Organismal Biology and Anatomy  Department of Psychology, Neuroscience  on Wednesday, November 16  at 12pm  in BPSB 122 (940 E 57th St)  A bird’s-eye view of sleep dependent memory … Continue reading →

The Comparative Behavioral Biology Workshop Presents ADAM BROWN  University of Chicago Computational Neuroscience Wednesday, November 2nd at 12pm in BPSB 122 (940 E 57th St)  The Local Food Movement: Serotonin Facilitates Efficient Foraging in C. elegans ABSTRACT: Fast responses can provide … Continue reading →

The Comparative Behavioral Biology Workshop Presents GENE ROBINSON from the Department of Entomology and the Carl W. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  this Wednesday, October 19 at 12pm  in BPSB 122 (940 E … Continue reading →

I’d like to welcome everyone back for the 2016-2017 year with a MEET AND GREET  on Wednesday, October 5th  at 12pm in BPSB 122 (940 E 57th St)  We will provide FREE LUNCH, will share details about upcoming speakers, and … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Comparative Behavioral Biology Workshop! Wednesdays @ 12pm Biological Sciences Building, 940 East 57th St Seminar Room 122 This seminar series explores questions of behavior and biology from multiple disciplines spanning ethology, psychology, physiology, neuroscience, genetics, ecology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and more! Students and … Continue reading →

Don’t miss our FINAL COMPARATIVE BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY seminar of the year by: JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH from the Louis Calder Center & Dept of Biological Sciences at Fordham University “A Tale of Two Rodents: Evolution of deer mice and rats in New York … Continue reading →