POSTERS

1. New technology for automating behavioral measurements

Presenters:
P1.1 Gerald Kastberger (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria). The outflyer rate as a usable field method for verifying defense strategies in Western honeybees.
P1.2 Anton Cherepov (P.K.Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow, Russia). Automatic segmentation of mouse behavior during video tracking in home cages.
P1.3 Johann Delcourt (University of Liège, Liège, Belgium). A new automatic video multitracking system able to follow a large school.
P1.4 Almut Gerhardt (LimCo International, Ibbenbueren, Germany). The Multispecies Freshwater Biomonitor and its application in behavioural ecology, ecotoxicology and online biomonitoring.
P1.5 Azita Rasti (Biovitrum AB, Stockholm, Sweden). New photocell based behavioral observation boxes specially designed for mice.
P1.6 Konstantin Anokhin (with demonstration) (P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology RAMS, Moscow, Russia). Development of neurocognitive interface for animal video tracking system.
P1.7 Per Nielsen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden). Interpretation of behavioural data from a computer controlled milk feeder.
P1.8 James Heward (with demonstration) (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK). FlyTracker: real-time analysis of insect courtship.
P1.9 James Salierno (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA). Alterations in schooling, shoaling, and startle response behaviors in mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, resulting from exposures to the harmful algal bloom neurotoxins, brevetoxin and saxitoxin.
P1.10 Evelyn Schmelzer (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria). Use of image analysis to measure the impact of shimmering behavior in Giant honeybees on predatory wasps.
P1.11 Kamil Vlcek (Institute for Physiology, Praha, Czech Republic). Impairment in allocentric orientation and memory for the order of locations in different stages of Alzheimer's disease.
P1.12 Erik Decker (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tjele, Denmark). Measuring the behaviour of mink with permanent access to running wheels: the design of the wheels and a description of the digital video system.
P1.13 Tatyana Mukhina (with demonstration) (P.K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology RAMS, Moscow, Russia). Automated recognition of rat and mouse body landmarks using 2D kinematic model.
P1.14 Els van Poucke (presented by Annelies Van Nuffel) (Agricultural Research Centre, Merelbeke, Belgium). Determining minimal space requirements of group-housed rabbits based on their spatial distribution.
P1.16 Irina Zarayskaya (P. K. Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow, Russia). Interaction of developing mouse pups with environmental obstacles: behavioral patterns and sensorimotor strategies.
P1.17 Stuart Pope (University of Bristol, Langford, UK). The use of thermal imaging to score plumage condition in laying hens.


Last updated: 20 October 2005