🍾 Melanie Dörr @mela-doerr.bsky.social succesfully 🥂 defended her thesis "Engineering Coral Resilience: Functional Testing of Probiotic Bacterial Isolates in Aiptasia Under Thermal Stress", supervised by Christian Voolstra - Congratulations! 🎊

🎉 Congratulations to Kat Stewart 🎓 for succesfully defending her thesis "Factors influencing intergroup encounter dynamics in a wild bonobo 🐒 population: the untold story of risk, reward and the roots of warfare", supervised by Barbara Fruth 🥂

Come and visit the MaxCine Festival on 3. - 5. Oct 2025 in Möggingen! More information here: en.maxcine.de/festival

🎉 Congratulations to Inga Petelski 🎓, who successfully defended her thesis "Sensory processing and decision making in a social context: From odors to swarm motion in insects" 🪳🦗, supervised by @einatcouzin.bsky.social

Last week, Claudio Monteza successfully defended his thesis “Quantifying adaptations of mammals to human-dominated landscapes” under Meg Crofoot, Roland Kays, and Dina Dechmann - congratulations!🥂

🎉Congratulations to @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis “Cracking Capuchins: Investigation stone tool use by white-faced capuchin monkeys using camera traps” under @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social, ‬@bjjbarrett.bsky.social, Dina Dechmann, and Meg Crofoot (left to right) 🥂

Here are a few impressions from our IMPRS PhD student retreat last week at the Burg Wildenstein youth hostel, where we attended a "Job Hunting" workshop led by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir from Science/Life. We also enjoyed a hike and an origami session organised by Weihan and Anumit, respectively.

🎉 On Friday, Alexandra Schmidt 🎓 successfully defended her thesis "Unravelling the Past and Present: Marine Phytoplankton Population Dynamics in the face of the Anthropocene", supervised by Laura Epp, @ericcapo12.bsky.social, and Lutz Becks. Congratulations! 🥂

🎉 Congratulations 🥂 to Camila Calderon 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "From individuals to populations: Behavioral flexibility in foraging of a wide-ranging species" 🏵️🦇 under the supervision of Dina Dechmann and Meg Crofoot

🎉 Congratulations to Andrea Meltzer🎓 who succesfully defended her thesis "The ecological and social drivers of cooperation: Experimental field studies in a group-living bird" under the supervision of Michael Griesser and Judith M. Burkart

🎉 Congratulations to Emily Grout 🎓 who successfully defended her thesis "Communication and fission-fusion dynamics in white-nosed coatis", under the supervision of Meg Crofoot and @arispeshkin.bsky.social

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