SCHEDULE

Over the course of three days in August 2016, Lincoln Park Zoo’s Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes will host eight themed sessions, showcasing 40 invited presenters, and an open-call ePoster session, for discussions of all that is Pan!

Day 1: August 18th 2016

3-5:30 p.m. Conference check in available at Registration Desk in Café Brauer, Lincoln Park Zoo
5 p.m. Welcome by Dr. Jane Goodall in Café Brauer, Lincoln Park Zoo
6-8 p.m. Opening reception held in the Regenstein Center for African Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo
6-8 p.m. Conference check in available at the Regenstein Center for African Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo

Day 2: August 19th 2016

7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Conference check in available at Registration Desk in Café Brauer, Lincoln Park Zoo
8 a.m.-6 p.m. All-day talks from invited speakers held in Café Brauer, Lincoln Park Zoo
6:15-8 p.m. ePoster session held in the Regenstein Center for African Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo.
6-8 p.m. Conference check in available atthe Regenstein Center for African Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo

Time	Session Topic	Speaker	Talk Title
8:00	Welcome and Introduction
8:20	Ontogeny, Reproduction, & Life Histories	Anne Pusey	Session Host Welcome
8:30		Elizabeth Lonsdorf	Growing up chimpanzee: studies of behavioral development in a comparative perspective
9:00		Gottfried Hohmann	Temporal patterns of development in bonobos and chimpanzees
9:30		Melissa Emery-Thompson	Chimpanzee reproduction in context: a lifespan perspective
9:45		Cheryl Knott	Ecology and the energetics of reproduction in the Hominoids
10:00		Questions for speakers
10:10	Coffee Break
10:30	Learning and Cognition	Andrew Whiten	Session Host Welcome
10:40		Josep Call	Communication and coordination in chimpanzees and orangutans
11:10		Masaki Tomonaga	How chimpanzees perceive faces: An update after nine years of investigation
11:40		Lydia Hopper	Chimpanzee social learning: A comparative perspective
11:55		Mike Beran	Cognitive control in chimpanzees
12:10		Questions for speakers
12:20	Lunch
13:40	Communication	Tetsuro Matsuzawa	Session Host Welcome
13:50		Cat Hobaiter	Gestural communication in Pan: tracing the origins of language
14:20		Jared Taglialatela	A comparison of socio-communicative behavior in chimpanzees and bonobos
14:50		Zanna Clay	Vocal communication in Pan: Insights into underlying social awareness and the evolution of language
15:05		Simon Townsend	Chimpanzee food calling: implications for the evolution of human semanticity
15:20		Questions for speakers
15:30	Coffee break
15:50	Captive Welfare	Steve Ross	Session Host Welcome
16:00		Mollie Bloomsmith	A simple chimpanzee welfare assessment tool: application across chimpanzees living in different types of facilities
16:30		Georgia Mason	Why do captive animals – including chimpanzees – perform abnormal repetitive behaviors, and how can we identify pathological forms?
17:00		Satoshi Hirata	Welfare of ex-biomedical chimpanzees in Japan and the role of research at Kumamoto Sanctuary, Japan
17:15		Hannah Buchanan-Smith	Environmental enrichment: our cognitive challenges
17:30		Questions for speakers
18:15	ePoster Session at Regenstein Center for African Apes

Day 3: August 20th 2016

8am-6pm: All-day talks held in Café Brauer, Lincoln Park Zoo

Time	Session	Hosts and Speakers	Talk Title
8:00	Welcome and Introduction
8:20	Feeding Ecology and Tool Use	Richard Wrangham	Session Host Welcome
8:30		Crickette Sanz	Sex differences in foraging among sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas in northern Congo
9:00		Stacy Lindshield	Savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal, use tools to reconcile an extreme environment
9:30		Janet Mann	Look no hands! Parallels and differences between dolphin and chimpanzee tool-use
9:45		Claudio Tennie	Chimpanzee tool-use: cultural, but not culture-dependent
10:00		Questions for speakers
10:10	Coffee Break
10:30	Altruism & Cooperation	Frans de Waal	Session Host Welcome
10:40		Brian Hare	Who is nicer, bonobo or chimpanzee?
11:10		Sarah Brosnan	Cooperative decision-making in non-human primates
11:40		Shinya Yamamoto	Cooperation in dyad and in group among chimpanzees and bonobos
11:55		Katie Cronin	Strategic cooperation by chimpanzees: friend today, foe tomorrow
12:10		Questions for speakers
12:20	Lunch
13:40	Social Living	William McGrew	Session Host Welcome
13:50		Roman Wittig	Chimpanzee friends: formation, maintenance and benefits of social bonds in wild chimpanzees.
14:20		Jorg Massen	The social lives and cooperative skills of corvids
14:50		Lydia Luncz	Culture in a nutshell: social influence on percussive tool selection in wild chimpanzees
15:05		Daniel Haun	Group-level variation in chimpanzee social behavior
15:20		Questions for speakers
15:30	Coffee break
15:50	Conservation	John Mitani	Session Host Welcome
16:00		Colin Chapman	Chimpanzee conservation: what we know, what we do not know, and ways forward.
16:30		Tatyana Humle	Contextualising coexistence between people and chimpanzees: challenges and opportunities
17:00		Augustin Basabose	Assessing the conservation status of a wild chimpanzee population in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, using non-invasive genetic methods
17:15		Dave Morgan	Modern environmental challenges to the ecological flexibility of chimpanzees
17:30		Questions for speakers
17:40		Closing Remarks

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