Winter Meeting 2009

Primate Stress: Causes, Responses and Consequences

1^st (9:00 am - 18:30 pm) and 2^nd December (8:30 am - 17:45) 2009

Detailed schedule here

Zoological Society of London, Meeting Rooms. ZSL, Regents Park, London.

Further details and the preliminary programme and ABSTRACTS here

Call for early registration

We are requesting early registrations for the PSGB Winter meeting, 2009. Due to the high interest in this exciting two-day meeting and the limited capacity at the venue we encourage pre-registration to guarantee attendance. Early registrations will be accepted until 1700 hrs 29^th November 2009 as subject to availability.

Meeting Outline

This stimulating meeting will focus on state of the art research pertaining to stress in primates covering behavioural, physiological and neurological responses to stressors in the physical and social environment both in captivity and the wild. The consequences of these responses for the individual's biological fitness will be assessed. The meeting will consist of a number of invited presentations from eminent, international scientists in the field as well as proffered papers spread, in themed sessions, over two days. There will also be one or more poster sessions. We are delighted to announce the conference will feature two plenary presentations:

Prof Stephen Suomi

(National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)

“Risk, Resilience, and Gene x Environment Interactions in Primates”

Prof Colin Chapman

(McGill University, Canada)

Primate Conservation: Synergy among Stress, Nutrition, Climate Change, and Disease

Other invited speakers include:

Prof Carol Shively (Wake Forest University, USA)

Prof Jaap Koolhaas (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Prof Filippo Aureli (John Moores University, UK)

Dr Joseph Garner (Purdue University, USA)

Dr Chris Pryce (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

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