Dynamics, homeostasis, and microbial transmission in animal social networks
Institute Seminar by Amiyaal Ilany
- Date: Nov 5, 2024
- Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Amiyaal Ilany
- Amiyaal Ilany is an Associate Professor at the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University. He received all his degrees from Tel Aviv University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee, and at the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania. He was then a faculty member at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He thinks he was born at the wrong time, because 35 million years ago hyraxes the size of rhinos lived in Africa.
- Location: Bückle St. 5a, 78467 Konstanz
- Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Bücklestrasse + Online
- Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
- Contact: vdemartsev@ab.mpg.de
I will describe observational and experimental studies focusing on social network dynamics in the rock hyrax and spotted hyena, as well as simple models of the dynamics of social networks. These studies highlight sociality at different scales, from seconds to years, and demonstrate the flexibility of social animals and the many factors that are at play. I will show that social dynamics may result from individuals' efforts to maintain social homeostasis. The effect of social associations on microbial strain transmission will be illustrated.
The MPI-AB Seminar Series is open to members of MPI and Uni Konstanz. The zoom link is published each week in the MPI-AB newsletter.