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 Seminar | Speaker | Speaker Institution | Title of Talk |
| April 3, 2026 | Dr. William DeBello | UC Davis | Nocturnal hunting in barn owls |
| April 10, 2026 | Dr. Birte Nielson | Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, UK | Making sense of it all - the importance of olfaction and other modalities in ethology and animal welfare |
| April 17, 2026 | Dr. Robert Dudley | UC Berkeley | The Drunken Monkey: Is Human Attraction to Alcohol an Evolutionary Hangover? |
| April 24, 2026 | Dr. Annie Madsen | UC San Diego | Resilience of Animal Social Networks to Demographic and Environmental Change |
| May 1, 2026 | JP Calcitrai (Progress Talks) | UC Davis | Cooperators in Competition: Models of Coalition Formation in Male Savannah Baboons |
| May 8, 2026 | Dr. Sarah Brosnan | Georgia State University | Inequity and cooperation in non-human primates |
| May 15, 2026 | Yasmeen Ghavamian (Exit Seminar) | UC Davis | The Big, Bold Wolf: The Behavior, Personality, and Risk-Taking of Human-Managed Northwestern Gray Wolves (Canis lupus occidentalis) |
| May 22, 2026 | Gretchen Peckler | UC Davis | Characterizing and diagnosing subclinical mastitis in meat-producing ewes |
| May 29, 2026 | Dr. Carrie Branch | University of Western Ontario | Does variation in song or plumage provide information about the spatial cognitive abilities of food-caching birds? |