The 17th annual Genes, Brain & Behavior Meeting (IBANGS) was held in Uppsala late May this year. During a couple of warm spring days researchers from around the world gathered at Uppsala University to enjoy talks and learn about recent research findings within the topics of behaviour, brain and genetics.
Among the many symposia, two were of particular interest to us from CEAWS; ‘Oxytocin and social behaviour: from fish to humans’ and ‘Genetic and epigenetic regulation of stress-related behaviors’. Per Jensen, one of the founders of CEAWS, was an invited keynote speaker at the conference. Per filled the entire auditorium during his much appreciated talk on ‘Genetics and epigenetics of domesticated social behavior’. During the poster session of the meeting, CEAWS was well represented with a total of 7 posters (details below) dealing with stress, heritability and personality. It was overall an interesting and international meeting covering a broad range of topics of relevance to several of our members.
Posters presented by CEAWS members:
Hanne Løvlie -The relationship between cognition and personality is task- and age-dependent in the red junglefowl.
Johan Bélteky -The search for stress-sensitive time early periods in the precocial chicken.
Mia Persson -Heritability of human-directed social behaviour in beagles.
Ann-Sofie Sundman -Behavioural differences and the heritability of behaviour in two selection lines of golden and Labrador retriever.
Josefina Zidar -Early environmental enrichment generates stress resilience and more optimistic chicks.
Emelie Jansson -Is optimism affected by personality? A test of cognitive judgment bias in red junglefowl chicks.
Charlotte Rosher -Like father, like son: Do old male fowl show less aggression towards son’s mating opportunities?