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Latest news:
Deadline for nominations: Outstanding Young Investigator Award
A reminder that nominations for the 2009 Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator should reach the ASAB Secretary by Thursday 20th November 2008. Further details and downloadable nomination forms can be found on the Awards page.
Winter Meeting 2008
Maternal effects: Evolution, physiology & implications for health and fitness
The Winter 2008 ASAB meeting will be held on 4th and 5th December, London, UK.This year, the conference aims to bring together those with an interest in how maternal effects might act to shape the development, health and evolutionary fitness of animals and humans. Mothers can have a profound effect on their offspring’s physiological development by shaping the conditions in which their offspring start life, grow and develop. Several otherwise disparate fields of research currently share a common interest in understanding how such maternal effects on offspring fitness might arise, why they might be adaptive and what their implications are for human and animal health. This Christmas meeting aims to bring together people working on diverse aspects of maternal effects with the aim of stimulating and informing future work on all research fronts.
The ASAB Christmas Conference is one of three ASAB Conferences organised each year. Traditionally, the Christmas conference is open to all with an interest in the field. Registration is free and will be open throughout the conference. The meeting is always held at the Institute of Zoology meeting rooms, Regent’s Park, London on the first Thursday and Friday of December.
For further information and abstract submission details, please visit the dedicated conference web site.
ASAB/ New Scientist Science Writing Prize - deadline 9th November 2008
Can you convey the excitement of your research? Explain why studying animal behaviour is important in an entertaining and informative way? Then write about it for New Scientist and enter the ASAB Science Writing Competition.
The ASAB Science writing prize is aimed at encouraging research scientists to communicate about their work to a wider audience. Applicants should be able to write an article in the style that will entertain and inform readers of New Scientist and that captures the excitement and relevance of the scientific study of animal behaviour. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they are research active but there are no restrictions in terms of age, stage of career or previous publishing experience.
The competition call for entries is now open with a closing date of 9th November 2008. For further details and a downloadable application form, follow this link.
Forthcoming ASAB conferences
Easter meeting 2009 & Postgraduate workshop: Cardiff, UK.
Summer Meeting 2009: 2nd - 5th September, Oxford, UK. To celebrate the bicentenary of Darwin's birth, on the theme of: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
Further details will be forthcoming on the ASAB Meetings page.
New Membership Secretary
The Society now has a new Membership Secretary - contact details can be accessed via this link.
Please note that all queries concerning membership, delivery (or non-delivery) of the journal Animal Behaviour, etc. should be forwarded to the new Membership Secretary and no longer to Jenny Levitt of Granta Information Services, UK.
Coverage of the 2007 Summer conference
Articles in New Scientist about presentations at the ASAB Summer Meeting in Newcastle, 5th - 7th September 2007.
Obituary
E-Newsletter for ASAB Members
From May 2006 onwards, the ASAB Newsletter has been distributed in electronic form as well as hardcopy. We hope that as many members as possible will sign up for the E-newsletter. For further information, follow this link.
If you are an ASAB member, and have not yet completed the address form to update your contact details with a current email address and indicate whether you would like to receive the E-newsletter in future, please do so as soon as possible!
SciTalk - get involved!
Fiction-writers seek animal behaviourists! Despite having more than 150
scientists registered, each with their own exciting web-page, SciTalk - the resource to help novelists, playwrights and screen-writers write realistically about science and scientists - has almost no behavioural researchers 'on
the books'. Please help to remedy this - the collaborations with writers can be great fun! Go to www.scitalk.org.uk and read about some of the meetings that have taken place, then click on 'SciTalk Contributor' to make your preliminary registration - or email enquiries@scitalk.org.uk for further information.
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