[BERG] BERG seminar -- Lucie Rigaill

[Sharon Kessler]

Dear Bergers,

I'm delighted to announce that this week's BERG seminar, Wednesday April 5th, at 4pm online, will be Dr Lucie Rigaill from Université Rennes. The title of her talk is, "Multimodal sexual communication in Afro-Eurasian monkeys." The abstract, teams link, and schedule of future talks are below:

Abstract
Reproduction is a crucial activity for all animal species. Individuals have to find mating opportunities, defend partners, and mate at the appropriate timing to maximize their reproductive success while dealing with the cost associated with reproduction (e.g., production of gametes, physiological stress).To guide their mating decision, individuals exchange information about their attributes and status through multiple sensory modalities. I have been studying how primates strategically mate using sexual communication and especially ovulatory signals in several species of Afro-Eurasian monkeys (olive baboons, Japanese macaques, cherry-crowned mangabeys, humans). I will present some of my results on the role of female visual (skin coloration, swelling), auditory (vocalisation), and olfactory(vaginal secretion) modalities in ovulatory signalling and mating strategies.

Teams link:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MjI5NTVhOGItNWM0OC00NzEwLTgzMmItZThkZTM0NTNkNGNk@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%224e8d09f7-cc79-4ccb-9149-a4238dd17422%22,%22Oid%22:%22dacb6fde-865c-47ff-a870-36c7c8c5d0f3%22%7D

Future Talks
 April 12       16:00   Mike Radford    University of Aberdeen  TBA     In - person: C3A94
April 19th      16:00   Alexandra Horowitz      Barnard College Who is the dog? Online
April 26th      16:00   Pawel Fedurek   University of Stirling  Sound Recording Workshop        In - person: C3A94
May 3rd 10:00 AM        Cécile Sarabian University of Hong Kong Risk perception and potential applications in wildlife management and conservation      Online
May 10th        16:00   Arnaud Tognetti Karolinska Institutet    Identification of sickness: some past, current and future projects.    Online

Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sharon

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Sharon Kessler (she/her), PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
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Email: sharon.kessler at stir.ac.uk
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