EFP 2026

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Panathénées room - MSH-SudSymposium 2

Cutting-edge technologies for primate research, monitoring, and conservation

Chairs: TBC

• S2-01 - Primate-targeted xenosurveillance: a non-invasive tool for health monitoring
  Gauthier RAWAY (Research Unit SPHERES, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium)

• S2-02 - Investigating the link between sociality, diet and microbiome in a wild primate using eDNA
  Judith SCHNEIDER (Laboratory for Conservation Biology (LBC), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)

• S2-03 - Integrating environmental and biologging technologies to reconstruct primate decision-making
  Felipe BUFALO (Laboratoty of Primatology, São Paulo State University (Unesp), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil)

• S2-04 - Optimizing nocturnal thermal-drone surveys for black-shanked douc langurs: calibration to ground distance sampling, gimbal-angle effects, and survey effort
  Eva GAZAGNE (Unit of Research SPHERES, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium)

• S2-05 - A new thermal lens on stress: facial blood‑flow dynamics in chimpanzees revealed by infrared thermography
  Perrine THEROUDE (Comparative Cognition Group, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom)

• S2-06 - Can seed dispersal persist without spider monkeys? Primate visitation at Virola trees
  Malika GOTTSTEIN (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France)

• S2-07 - Arboreal camera traps reveal spatiotemporal resource partitioning in an Atlantic Forest primate community
  Olivier KAISIN (Laboratory of Primatology, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil)

• S2-08 - Vocal activity patterns of threatened lemur species revealed through passive acoustic monitoring and deep learning
  Daria VALENTE (Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)

Auditorium - MSH-SudSymposium 3

Primate communication, primate linguistics, and the evolution of language: current advances and future directions

Chairs: TBC

• Introduction
  Maël LEROUX (Université de Rennes, Paimpont, France)

• S3-01 - Approaches to studying meaning in nonhuman animals
  Stuart WATSON (University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)

• S3-02 - Context matters: pragmatic competence in primate communication
  Joseph MINE (Centre d'Etude en Ethologie et Cognition (CEEC) - U.M.R 6552, University of Rennes, Paimpont, France)

• S3-03 - Syntax and compositionality in non-human primate vocal sequences
  Auriane LE FLOCH (Centre d’Etude en Ethologie et Cognition (CEEC), University of Rennes, Rennes, France)

• S3-04 - Importance and challenges of multimodality in primate communication research
  Angèle LOMBREY (Pathways to Language, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany)

• S3-05 - Computational approaches to communicative combinatoriality and hierarchy
  Elliot HOWARD-SPINK (Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zürich & NCCR Evolving Language, Zürich, Switzerland)

Roundtable

Moderators: Alban LEMASSON, Maël LEROUX & Florence LEVRÉRO

• Experts: Mélissa BERTHET, Elliot HOWARD-SPINK, Auriane LE FLOCH, Aurélie LE FUR, Angèle LOMPREY, Joseph MINE, Remo NIETSCHE, Nikhil PHANIRAJ, Stuart WATSON & Chiara ZULBERTI
• Panelists: Judith BURKART, Catherine CROCKFORD, Adrien MEGUERDITCHIAN, Katie SLOCOMBE & Simon TOWNSEND

Kouros room - MSH-SudSociality (1)

Chairs: TBC

• S-01 - A comparison of power structures across chimpanzee communities
  Gal BADIHI (German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany)

• S-02 - Wild chimpanzee groups increase social connectivity prior to risky collective action
  James BROOKS (Cooperative Evolution Lab, German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany)

• S-03 - Evidence for amotional contagion of anxiety in Barbary macaques
  Carina BRUCHMANN (Department of Behavioral Ecology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany)

• S-04 - Probing the relative importance of interdependence on proactive prosociality in captive common marmosets
  Rahel Katharina BRÜGGER (Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

• S-05 - Social influences on maternal care behavior in mantled howler monkeys
  Maud CZERWINSKI (Primate Behavioral Ecology Lab, Instituto de Neuro-etología, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico)

• S-06 - Why do baboon males associate with non-biological offspring?
  Axelle DELAUNAY (Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland)

• S-07 - What affects male mating success? Exploring male mating strategies in wild bonobos at LuiKotale (DRC)
  Francesca DECINA (Department of Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany)

Botany lecture hall - Botanic InstituteGenetics and genomics / Physiology, health, and disease (1)

Chairs: TBC

• GP-01 - Genetic and behavioural repertoires support olfactory communication in wild capuchin monkeys
  Amanda MELIN (Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

• GP-02 - Biased introgression of MHC class II alleles in the Alouatta palliata × A. pigra hybrid zone in Mexico
  Liliana CORTÉS-ORTIZ (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States)

• GP-03 - Inflammaging changes predict phenotypic aging in Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques
  Rachel NELSON (Department of Anthropology, Center for the Study of Human Origins, New York University, New York, NY, United States)

• GP-04 - Embracing aging complexity from within-individual heterogeneity to non-linear age-associated trajectories
  Baptiste SADOUGHI (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States)

• GP-05 - Behavioral effects on mammalian gut microbiomes
  Anka (Ann-Kathrin) POHLE (Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution - Social Microbiome Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)

• GP-06 - Mechanisms of cryptic female choice in the vaginal tract of a nonhuman primate species
  James HIGHAM (New York University, New York, United States)

• GP-07 - Microbes and their metabolism in wild tamarin monkeys: exploring the potential role in olfactory social communication
  Silvia CARBONI (Department of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada)

Botanic InstituteCoffee break

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Posters session

Broc-CaféPongo bingo: early career networking event