The bulk of my lab will be at the annual Animal Behavior Society conference next week. Come check out our suite of talks!!
Elizabeth A. Hobson
Hobson Lab PI
Wed (26th) 1:30PM — Social behavior 2
“Social support and rank dynamics in parakeet groups”
Claire L. O’Connell
Hobson Lab PhD Candidate (website)
Wed (26th) 4:00PM — Social behavior 3
“Familiarity with social partners influences affiliative interactions but not spatial associations”
Preprint available: https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/7201/
Xavier Francis
Hobson Lab PhD Candidate
Fri (28th) 9:30AM — Social behavior 4
“Social information structures real-time aggressive decision-making in Monk Parakeets
Sanjay Prasher
Hobson Lab PhD Candidate
Fri (28th) 4:00PM — Social behavior 5
“Effects of foraging success on social network centrality in bobwhite quail”
Raleigh S. Bellard
Hobson Lab Summer REU Student (2023)
Fri (28th) 8:30PM — Poster Session 2 #F35
“Testing for variation in “fight style” across male Betta splendens aggression displays”
Michael Reichert
collaboration results (Reichert Lab Website)
This isn’t a lab member presentation, but it was a super fun collaboration led by Michael (and I’m counting it as my first “frog” paper!!):
Thurs (27th) 9:30AM — Communication 4
“Individual-group feedbacks and the role of perception in a simulated communication network”
Paper available: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0186
Emily DuVal
Collaboration results!
DuVal Lab | Fitzpatrick Lab | Servedio Lab
This also isn’t a lab member presentation, but it was a really amazing collaboration led by Emily, and my first foray into modeling sexual selection!
“Inferred Attractiveness: proposing a new generalized mechanism for sexual selection”
Friday (28th) 2:15PM — Sexual selection & sexual conflict 1
Link to the paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002269
