Pre-MA Graduation Event

Please join us for our Spring 2017 Pre-MA Graduation Event

Location: Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

47-49 E. 65th Street, New York, New York

Wednesday, May 10th from 4:00 8:30 pm

This event will include research presentations by many of the students in the ABC MA
program and a keynote talk by Dr. Marcelo Magnasco, Head of the Integrative
Neuroscience Lab at Rockefeller University.
Please rsvp by Monday, May 1st
Wednesday, May 10th, 4:00-8:30 pm

From To Speaker Topic

4:00 pm 4:10 pm Diana Reiss (Hunter ABC) Welcome & Introduction
4:10 pm 4:40 pm Marcello Magnesco (Rockefeller U.) Keynote Lecture: New Approaches to Studying Dolphin
Social Behavior
4:40 pm 4:50 pm Keri DeTorres (ABC Pre-graduation) Feline Object Play: The Influence of Catnip
4:50 pm 5:00 pm Raymond Vagell (ABC Pre-graduation) Does Genotype Correlate With Phenotype? Evaluating
Ruffed Lemur (Varecia spp.) Color Vision Using Subject
Mediated Automatic Remote Testing Apparatus
(SMARTA)
5:00 pm 5:10 pm Taylor Kelly Adult human perception of distress in the cries of
bonobo, chimpanzee and human infants
5:10 pm 5:50 pm Break, Food & Posters
5:50 pm 6:00 pm Elizabeth Jaeger (ABC Pre-graduation) Reward Preferences in Domestic Horses (Equus
caballus)
6:00 pm 6:10 pm Tyler Bray (ABC Pre-graduation) Assessing Behavioral Syndromes in Captive Red
Pandas (Ailurus fulgens) Using an Ethological
Approach.
6:10 pm 6:20 pm Stephanie Shih (ABC Pre-graduation) Effects of fluoxetine on community structure and startle
escape behavior in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni
6:20 pm 6:30 pm TBD TBD
6:30 pm 7:20 pm Break, Food & Posters
7:20 pm 7:50 pm Ofer Tchernichovski & Diana Reiss Introducing Play4Earth:Virtual nature tours