Symposia and workshops

In addition to the posters and oral papers submitted individually and presented in general sessions, Measuring Behavior also has sessions organized around a particular theme in which the session chair invites the speakers. At MB2018 we distinguish:

• Symposia: Sessions organized around a specific topic and organized by a symposium chair. The symposium chair and the MB2018 program committee will oversee the paper blind review process and the accepted papers will be presented in the symposium.
• Workshops: Sessions dedicated to hosting interactive discussions about novel topics in Measuring Behavior organized by a workshop chair.

If you are presenting, you can download the guidelines here.

Wednesday 6th June

• Fish as model organisms in behavioral research organized by Erika Roman and Svante Winberg, Uppsala University
• Can we turn "Behavioural Tests" into "Behavioural Bioassays"? organized by Richard E. Brown, Dalhousie University
• New tools to analyze motor activity and movement organized by Wiktor Niewiadomski, Grazyna Niewiadomska (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Gernot Riedel (Aberdeen University)
• Measuring and influencing behavior using biological and neural measures in humans by Yale Benn, Manchester Metroplitan University
• Integration of traditional and neuroscientific techniques in the study of consumer behaviour: the contribution of Neuromarketing by Maurizio Mauri, University of Milan
• Sequence Analysis Approaches to Discovering Hidden Temporal Patterns in Behaviour by David Keatley, University of Lincoln
• What do rhythms in behaviour reveal about an animal's status? by Christina Umstätter (Agroscope) and Lucy Asher (Newcastle University)
• New technologies and software to advance the 3Rs and behavioural measurements in animal research by Kamar Ameen-Ali, NC3R, UK

Thursday, 7th June

• Rodent and human studies of social behavior and its dysfunctions organized by Christopher Pryce, University of Zurich

• From behavioral measurements to models that behave by Warren Mansell (University of Manchester) and Alex Gomez-Marin (Institute of Neuroscience, CSIC-UMH)
• Facial Expressions Analysis of Human and Animal Behavior by Moi Hoon Yap (Manchester Metropolitan University), Adrian Keith Davison (University of Manchester) and Daniel Leightley (King’s College London)

• Measuring zoo animal welfare by Sabina Brando, World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Switzerland

Friday 8th June

• Application of sensor technologies in animal breeding by Ellen Esther and Bas Rodenburg, Wageningen University & Research
• Measuring behavior in elite sport by Tom Allen, Sheffield Hallam University
• Monitoring and encouraging participation in sport and physical activity by Simon Choppin and John Kelley, Sheffield Hallam University

The full conference schedule is available here.