APELAB

The Antwerp Primate Ethology and Evolution Lab @Uantwerpen BECO and Centre for Research and Conservation @ZOOscience_eng @ZOOscience_be

[Jenny Tung @jtung5]

Come join us at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! The Dept of Primate Behavior & Evolution is looking for a lab manager/coordinator to integrate our molecular genetic, cell culture, and field-based labwork. Details here: https://t.co/zEO8HSxtIG

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

New paper out! We constructed social grooming networks of 22 groups of zoo-housed bonobos, and investigated the effects of individual (age, sex, rearing) and group-level characteristics (sex ratio, group size) on individual social network position🧵 (1/7)

https://t.co/0JZdVjAu4y

[Cyril C. Grueter @ccgrueter]

2nd call: If you're interested in a PhD project on chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Rwanda, please contact me by the 15th of July.
@IPS_PrimateNews @BiologicalAnth @EFPrimatology @PsgbSTudent @AusHumanBiology @AnimBehav @ScienceUWA @CEB_UWA

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

Excited to share our latest paper on genetic determinants of individual variation in the superior temporal sulcus of chimpanzees showing modest genetic contributions of AVPR1a and KIAA0319 genotypes @chet_sherwood @AdrienMeguerdi1 @GWBradleyLab @APELAB2 https://t.co/F31GWsLdSR

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

It’s official, with help from the keeper team @TwycrossZoo @APELAB2 PHD student @jonasrrtorfs just collected his final 💩 sample, thereby completing sampling the entire zoo-housed European bonobo population for his microbiome project. So thankful to all zoos that participated 🙌

[APELAB @APELAB2]

Don’t forget to take a look at @APELAB2 student Emile’s poster on a comparison of aggression of captive bonobos and chimpanzees at #EFP_GfP2022

[APELAB @APELAB2]

@APELAB2 members represented at #EFP_GfP2022. Check out @Jeronobo1 @dwlameris @jonasrrtorfs in welfare session D1 (10.30-12.15am), @JonasVerspeek in cognition session B3 (4.15pm) and @NickyStaes in genetics session C3 (4.15pm)

[Kristian Tylén @kristian_tylen]

👉Job call! 👈I am looking for two postdocs to join my efforts to understand how capacities for human symbolic behavior evolved ~150 – 15 k years ago. The project integrates methods and insights from cognitive science and archaeology

[APELAB @APELAB2]

New @APELAB2 collaborative paper shows how friendship predicts dyadic cofeeding tolerance around a non-monopolizable food source in bonobos and chimps @NickyStaes @k_vermeulen2 @Jeronobo1 @jonasrrtorfs @JonasVerspeek @ejcvanleeuwen @ZOOscience_eng https://t.co/FFNC7lwKTq

[Cat Hobaiter @NakedPrimate]

Apes love a good leaf but stick & stone tools get all the attention! Let’s not leaf them out! Have you worked with wild chimps or bonobos? Help @bambazoodl describe the wonderful world of perishable tools! 20-30min questionnaire @st_psy #BeLeaf #WildMinds https://t.co/7XjWJzNw1Q

[APELAB @APELAB2]

Huge congrats to Dr Jonas Verspeek who successfully defended his PhD on "Indifferent hippies: prosociality and inequity aversion as proximate mechanism of cooperation in bonobos"

[APELAB @APELAB2]

New work from our lab on epigenetic modification of the dopamine system and its impact on chimpanzee exploratory personality from @APELAB2 @UAntwerpen members @NickyStaes and @Jeronobo1 and colleagues from @gwCASHP

[Nicky Staes @NickyStaes]

New paper alert! Everything you need to know about how dopamine receptor gene methylation patterns impact chimpanzee personality in a very similar manner to humans. With @goguevara @chet_sherwood @GWBradleyLab @gwCASHP @Jeronobo1 @ZOOscience_eng @APELAB2 https://t.co/CEhEBizrbu

[sofia forss @ForssSofia]

YOU might be our new Team member 😉🚨 Job alert 🚨 Fully funded 4-years PhD Position in the Animal Behaviour Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. We very much looking forward to hear from you! #PhdPositions #KalahariMeerkatProject @snsf_ch @UZH_en RTs are Welcome 🙏🏻

[APELAB @APELAB2]

! New paper alert ! from @APELAB2 member @Jeronobo1 and colleagues

[APELAB @APELAB2]

! New APELAB paper alert !

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

1/4 4th chapter of my Phd is out in @PeerJLife
Adult bonobos show no prosociality: important nuance in the existing field of prosociality research in bonobos https://t.co/Sp7w91jPDR @ejcvanleeuwen @dwlameris @NickyStaes @Jeronobo1
@UAntwerpen @ZOOscience_eng @APELAB2

[Jonas Verspeek @JonasVerspeek]

1/4 4th chapter of my Phd is out in @PeerJLife
Adult bonobos show no prosociality: important nuance in the existing field of prosociality research in bonobos https://t.co/Sp7w91jPDR @ejcvanleeuwen @dwlameris @NickyStaes @Jeronobo1
@UAntwerpen @ZOOscience_eng @APELAB2

[APELAB @APELAB2]

New work out in @AmJournalPrimat investigating how valenced (non-)social stimuli affect the performance of bonobos during a Stroop task on touchscreens by @dwlameris @JonasVerspeek and @Jeronobo1. @UAntwerpen @FWOVlaanderen @ZOOscience_eng

[daan laméris @dwlameris]

Thrilled (and a little nervous 🥲) to share our new paper on attention in bonobos 👀 We examined how social and nonsocial stimuli influence the bonobos’ performance on an emotional Stroop task. Check the paper here: https://t.co/dqU6wvI12w

[APELAB @APELAB2]

! New paper alert !
@APELAB2 member @jonasrrtorfs, @dwlameris en @NickyStaes investigated the role of social network position for attracting respiratory disease in zoohoused bonobos @ZOOscience_eng

[Jonas R. R. Torfs @jonasrrtorfs]

My very first paper is out 🎉! Last winter, while doing behavioral observations in a zoo-housed group of bonobos, an outbreak of respiratory disease occured. We investigated which factors influenced infection risk, with a focus on the role of the social promixity network (1/5)

[APELAB @APELAB2]

@APELAB2 is recruting enthusiastic master students for an observational project of zoo-housed bonobos in spring 2022. If you are still looking for an internship or thesis project please contact @jonas_torfs and @NickyStaes @ZOOscience_eng

[APELAB @APELAB2]

Another @APELAB2 publication now out describing how KIAA0319 gene variants are associated with grey matter differences in the posterior superior temporal gyrus in chimpanzees by @NickyStaes, @chet_sherwood @GWBradleyLab and colleagues @gwCASHP
https://t.co/Wg1qE3XkmD