Programme
Our conference is organised over two days, across three sessions.
View/Download the full schedule and the abstract booklet.
| Session | Time UTC+0 | In your local time () |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1, Session 1 | ||
| Day 1, Session 2 | ||
| Day 1, Session 3 | ||
| Day 2, Session 1 | ||
| Day 2, Session 2 | ||
| Day 2, Session 3 |
ABL2023 features multiple contributions, live streamed on YouTube, in addition to social interactions in a dedicated Discord server.
Plenary speakers
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Slime holds But Were Afraid to Ask
Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University, CNRS, France
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Cognition, behaviour, and ecology of urban carnivores
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Conserving Gorillas through a One Health Approach
Conservation Through Public Health, Uganda
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Honey bee cognition in agricultural settings: how landscape and social behavior are affected each other
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Session | Time UTC+0 | In your local time () |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Koustubh Sharma | ||
| Dr Gabriel Francescoli | ||
| Dr Kristal Cain | ||
| Dr Renee Borges | ||
| Dr Erica Van de Waal | ||
| Dr Christina Kwapich |
Talks
Talks are 20 minutes total (15 minutes for the talk with 5 additional minutes for questions) and presented on a live stream. The full schedule of talks can be found on this link, with abstracts available in the abstract booklet. All talks are available on demand right after the live stream, throughout the conference, using the same links as the live streamed sessions.
Workshops
ABL AOC 2023 will feature several workshops and events which are organised in between the talk sessions on the same days of the conference. These include workshops on free software to track animal behaviours and interaction events with our plenary speakers
Meet the free tracking tools
A series of four presentations highlighting free tracking software that can be used to study animal behaviour at different scales. We will host the developers of the following software:
- idTracker (https://www.idtracker.es/home)
- BORIS (https://www.boris.unito.it/)
- AnimalTA (https://vchiara.eu/index.php/animalta)
- SLEAP (https://sleap.ai/)
| Session | Time UTC+0 | In your local time () |
|---|---|---|
| idTracker workshop | ||
| BORIS workshop | ||
| AnimalTA workshop | ||
| SLEAP workshop |
Meet the PI
During these 45-minute discussions, you will have the pleasure of learning more about the academic journey of four of this year's plenary speakers: Dr. Koustubh Sharma, Dr. Gabriel Francescoli, Dr. Erica Van de Waal, Dr. Christina Kwapich.
| Session | Time UTC+0 | In your local time () |
|---|---|---|
| Meet the PI: Dr Koustubh Sharma | ||
| Meet the PI: Dr Gabriel Francescoli | ||
| Meet the PI: Dr Erica Van de Waal | ||
| Meet the PI: Dr Christina Kwapich |
Virtual posters
ABL AOC 2023 will feature 30+ virtual posters, short videos that can be watched on YouTube from a dedicated playlist or our Discord server. The virtual posters can be watched anytime over the course of the conference (and many even remain available on demand afterwards), and there are dedicated sessions to collectively watch them and ask questions to the speakers on Discord (see table below). Full virtual poster schedule.
| Session | Time UTC+0 | In your local time () |
|---|---|---|
| Posters #1 to #6 | ||
| Posters #7 to #11 | ||
| Posters #12 to #16 | ||
| Posters #17 to #21 | ||
| Posters #22 to #27 | ||
| Posters #28 to #32 |