Dear All, This Wednesday (4pm) we have a seminar led by Stephan Kaufhold (University of California San Diego) entitled "Navigating Social Risk and Resource Access: Social Distances and Pathogen Avoidance in Macaques" - abstract below. The meeting will be held online: please find a link to the meeting below. How primates navigate their environment depends not only on physical constraints but on the social landscape around them. In this talk, I present ongoing research on macaques at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in southern Texas. First, I present a study on social tolerance using a hybrid computer vision approach that shows how macaques' movement trajectories around food resources result from balancing social risk with resource access. I then discuss work on pathogen avoidance, examining how early rearing history and recent disease outbreaks shape pathogen sensitivity in macaques, highlighting the flexible and experience-dependent nature of the behavioral immune system. Link to the meeting: BERG research seminars | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F3816460052135%3Fp%3DxsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0&data=05%7C02%7Calejandro.sanchezamaro%40stir.ac.uk%7C1d41b35450fb453d81c108de88b5c931%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C639098511572364324%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lDade6ECR8DUoE6CmzlZ3lBNlHVUeGKdnHxOZAQJ0yU%3D&reserved=0<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F3816460052135%3Fp%3DxsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0&data=05%7C02%7Calejandro.sanchezamaro%40stir.ac.uk%7C1d41b35450fb453d81c108de88b5c931%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C639098511572400428%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=oEjJGM1KGME7wTLUokOXRQMWEoWvPb6RoI7yYEhQU7s%3D&reserved=0<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F3816460052135%3Fp%3DxsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0&data=05%7C02%7Calejandro.sanchezamaro%40stir.ac.uk%7C1d41b35450fb453d81c108de88b5c931%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C639098511572423884%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hRpBy%2FRmyetDzlXbsTLnjQITrZEDvtWQTacPdp0YLfs%3D&reserved=0<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F3816460052135%3Fp%3DxsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0&data=05%7C02%7Calejandro.sanchezamaro%40stir.ac.uk%7C1d41b35450fb453d81c108de88b5c931%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C639098511572442794%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xgwYIdhkN6q4yUEaN3apqWNMa%2FUWSBnfhAhNMDLQUHs%3D&reserved=0<https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3816460052135?p=xsEIefROgXSXlZHxc0>>>>> Best Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Alejandro Sanchez-Amaro Lecturer in Psychology Cottrell Building Room 3B144c, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling @ Colleagues and Students: Please let me know of any EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) -related issues that you would like me to bring to the attention of our Division's EDI Committee. [cid:d9b9c0c3-3204-4eb5-ad4a-a92513464926]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/2a25868e07e14f2d87f6b0b660fce268@stir.ac.uk?anonymous&ep=signature> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/2a25868e07e14f2d87f6b0b660fce268@stir.ac.uk?anonymous&ep=signature> ________________________________ Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
