Program

Last modified: 01/07/2008

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5th July (Saturday)

Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception

The Opening Ceremony and the Welcome Reception will take place at the conference site, at ELTE Convention Centre in the evening of 5 July.

The program starts at 19:30 and include a buffet dinner with drinks.
Address: 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A. - at the congress venue on the Buda side of the town (No transfer provided)

Participation at this evening is included in the registration fee. The opening festivities are open to all registered participants, accompanying persons and exhibitors. Read more...

6th July (Sunday)

9.00 - 9.40	Introductory talk Ádám Miklósi Welcome to the 1st Canine Science Forum! Dogs and their people: Love is not enough!
9.40 - 10.40	Plenary lecture Jane Packard Man meets wolf: ethological perspectives
10.40 - 11.10	Coffee break
11.10 - 12.30	Regular lecture session: Dogs and other canids in the wild (Chair: József Topál)
11.10 - 11.30	Blaire Van Valkenburgh Craniofacial form and performance of the canid skull during prey killing and feeding
11.30 - 11.50	Alexey Vereshchagin The quantification of the Moscow city stray-dogs in 1996 and 2006 and its population characteristics
11.50 - 12.10	Simona Cafazzo Social dynamics of a group of free-ranging domestic dogs living in a suburban environment
12.10 - 12.30	Camille Ward Social play in dogs: individual variation and change over time
12.30 - 12.50	Poster teasers C Arhant, J Kudla, C Savalli, A Pullen, K Fujita, A Gsell, B Klausz
12.50 - 14.30	Lunch Poster session, Entertainment events: Paragility show, Dog dancing show
14.30 - 15.30	Plenary lecture Paul McGreevy Dogs forever! - A sustainable role for them as companions and co-workers
15.30 - 16.10	Regular lecture session: Interaction 1 (Chair: Samuel Gosling)
15.30 - 15.50	Manuela Wedl Effects of personality and sex on behavioural patterns in human-dog dyads
15.50 - 16.10	Tadeusz Jezirski Can trained sniffer dogs detect cancer in humans?
16.10 - 16.30	Poster teasers J Templeton, E Dalla Costa, A Racca, E Viggiano, N Lagström, E Natoli, S Arai
16.30 - 17.00	Coffee break
17.00 - 18.20	Regular lecture session: Interaction 2 (Chair: Péter Pongrácz)
17.00 - 17.20	Emanuela Prato Previde Intraspecific attachement in domestic dog puppies (Canis familiaris)
17.20 - 17.40	Márta Gácsi Does the owner provide a secure-base? Behavioral and heart rate response to a threatening stranger and to separation in dogs
17.40 - 18.00	Iris Schöberl Effects of owner sex and interaction style on stress coping in human-dog dyads
18.00 - 18.20	Tadeusz Jezirski Can trained sniffer dogs detect cancer in humans?
19.30	"Egészségedre!" (Cheers!) Wine tasting
20.00	Evening talk by Marc Bekoff

7th July (Monday)

9.00 - 10.00	Plenary lecture Sabina Nowak Ecology, behaviour and population genetics of wolves (Canis lupus) in Poland
10.00 - 10.40	Regular lecture session: Ethology 1 (Chair: Simona Normando)
10.00 - 10.20	Sarah Dawson Cognitive inference and behavioural syndromes in the coyote (Canis latrans)
10.20 - 10.40	Poster viewing
10.40 - 11.10	Coffee break
11.10 - 12.30	Regular lecture session: Cognition 1, Communication (Chair: Friderike Range)
11.10 - 11.30	Juliane Kaminski Dogs' understanding of human forms of communication
11.30 - 11.50	Alexandra Horowitz Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use visual attention cues when play signalling
11.50 - 12.10	Péter Pongrácz Dog barking - a specific way for dog-human communication
12.10 - 12.30	Akiko Takaoka Intermodal representation in dogs
12.30 - 12.50	Poster teasers M Yamamoto, B Schöning, J Hößler, P Kaulfuß, K Fiszdon, R Klee, T Ujhelyi, S Bjone
12.50 - 14.30	Lunch Poster session, Entertainment event: Police dog show
14.30 - 15.30	Plenary lecture Heidi Parker Genes for Dogs: More Than a Fashion Statement
15.30 - 16.10	Regular lecture session: Genetics 1 (Chair: Zsófia Virányi)
15.30 - 15.50	Peter Savolainen Population genetic studies of the origins of the domestic dog
15.50 - 16.10	Karen Overall Noise reactivity in 3 breeds of herding dogs: what the crossroads of demography, ethology and genetics can tell us
16.10 - 16.30	Poster teasers S Mitsui, F Gaunet, D Sulinski, M Schneider, A Morisaki, C Basse, A Conroy, P Vyplelova
16.30 - 17.00	Coffee break
17.00 - 18.20	Regular lecture session: Working dogs (Chair: Nicola J. Rooney)
17.00 - 17.20	Samuel Gosling Personality and performance in working dogs
17.20 - 17.40	Joanne Van der Borg Effect of behavioural testing on the prevalence of fear and aggression in the Dutch Rottweiler population
17.40 - 18.00	Matthias Starck Energy metabolism of working Inuit sled dogs
18.00 - 18.20	Judit Vas Association of the tyrosine hydroxylase (th) gene polymorphism and activity trait measured by questionnaire and behavioural tests in German shepherd dogs
19.30	"Egészségedre!" (Cheers!) Wine tasting
20.00	Evening talk by Vilmos Csányi

8th July (Tuesday)

9.00 - 10.00	Plenary lecture James Serpell The Behavioral Basis of Canine-Human Friendship
10.00 - 10.40	Regular lecture session: Ethology 2 (Chair: Karen Overall)
10.00 - 10.20	Erika Bauer Play like a puppy, play like a dog
10.20 - 10.40	Rebecca Anno Third-party interventions during play in the domestic dog
10.40 - 11.10	Coffee break
11.10 - 12.30	Regular lecture session: Interaction 3 (Chair: Emanuela Prato Previde)
11.10 - 11.30	Kurt Kotrschal Towards the nature of the human-dog social bond
11.30 - 11.50	Franziska Kuhne Non-invasive assessment of specific strain in dogs
11.50 - 12.10	Eva Burger Changes in emotion regulation and emotion recognition in adolescents: improvements during animal-assisted training
12.10 - 12.30	Karoline Turner Enhancing emotion regulation and recognition among first graders through an animal assisted group training
12.30 - 12.50	Poster teasers G Braun, B Smith, M Nagasawa, L Horn, H Möslinger, B Stetina, T Faragó
12.50 - 14.30	Lunch Poster session, Press conference, Entertainment event: Tame wolf show
14.30 - 15.30	Plenary lecture József Topál Understanding the dog: What is it like to be a human's creation?
15.30 - 16.10	Regular lecture session: Cognitive 2 (Chair: Ludwig Huber)
15.30 - 15.50	Friederike Range Effort and reward: inequity aversion in domestic dogs?
15.50 - 16.10	András Péter "Where is the ball?" - can dogs use two dimensional information during a search task?
16.10 - 16.30	Poster teasers Y Lambach, C Muro, L Tóth, A Poyarkov, U Gansloßer, L Pinc, T Clarke
16.30 - 17.00	Coffee break
17.00 - 18.20	Regular lecture session: Shelter and working dogs (Chair: Daniel Mills)
17.00 - 17.20	Paola M. Valsecchi Validation of a new temperament test as a practical tool for adoptions of sheltered dogs
17.20 - 17.40	Alexa Capra Are pit bulls different? Behavioural evaluation within a rehabilitation program of ex-fighting dogs
17.40 - 18.00	Nadine Gerth Non-invasive methods for studying working dog physiology in the field
18.00 - 18.20	Nicola Rooney Response to a standardised psychogenic stressor as an indicator of welfare status
20.00 -	Conference Dinner on the Danube (optional)

9th July (Wednesday)

9.00 - 10.00	Plenary lecture Robert Wayne Evolutionary genomics of the dog and dog-like carnivores
10.00 - 10.40	Regular lecture session: Genetics 2 (Chair: Peter Savolainen)
10.00 - 10.20	Enikő Kubinyi Reactivity trait and D4 dopamine receptor gene polymorphism in German shepherd dogs
10.20 - 10.40	Eva Marie Werg?rd Possible domestication effects on mentality and morphology of the domestic dog
10.40 - 11.10	Coffee break
11.10 - 12.30	Regular lecture session: Cognitive 3 (Chair: Julia Kaminski)
11.10 - 11.30	Paolo Mongillo Measuring social attention skills in pet dogs
11.30 - 11.50	Zsófia Virányi How does ostensive communication influence social learning in dogs?
11.50 - 12.10	Hannah Wright Behavioural impulsivity in the domestic dog
12.10 - 12.30	Ágnes Erdőhegyi Using the violation of expectation paradigm in dogs: does it work?
12.50 - 14.30	Lunch, Entertainment event: Herding excursion