Spring 2026 Animal Behavior Graduate Group Seminar Series

Animal Behavior Graduate Group Seminar Series (Spring 2026)

Fridays at 12:10PM in Meyer Hall room 1131

Graduate students ANB 290 CRN: 30737

Undergraduate students NPB 190C CRN: 46973

For questions, contact Stacey Combes ([email protected]) or Felicity Muth ([email protected])

Date of SeminarSpeakerSpeaker InstitutionTitle of Talk
April 3, 2026Dr. William DeBelloUC DavisNocturnal hunting in barn owls
April 10, 2026Dr. Birte NielsonUniversities Federation for Animal Welfare, UKMaking sense of it all - the importance of olfaction and other modalities in ethology and animal welfare
April 17, 2026Dr. Robert DudleyUC BerkeleyThe Drunken Monkey: Is Human Attraction to Alcohol an Evolutionary Hangover?
April 24, 2026Dr. Annie MadsenUC San DiegoResilience of Animal Social Networks to Demographic and Environmental Change
May 1, 2026JP Calcitrai (Progress Talks)UC DavisCooperators in Competition: Models of Coalition Formation in Male Savannah Baboons
May 8, 2026Dr. Sarah BrosnanGeorgia State UniversityInequity and cooperation in non-human primates
May 15, 2026Yasmeen Ghavamian (Exit Seminar)UC DavisThe Big, Bold Wolf: The Behavior, Personality, and Risk-Taking of Human-Managed Northwestern Gray Wolves (Canis lupus occidentalis)
May 22, 2026Gretchen PecklerUC DavisCharacterizing and diagnosing subclinical mastitis in meat-producing ewes
May 29, 2026Dr. Carrie BranchUniversity of Western OntarioDoes variation in song or plumage provide information about the spatial cognitive abilities of food-caching birds?
Flyer of the Animal Behavior Graduate Group Spring 2026 Seminar Series