Program

Friday, June 25

• 18:00 Welcome cocktail party
• 19:30 Dinner

Saturday, June 26

• 09:00 Barbara Picone and Luca Sineo. What can chromosomes tell us about the origins of primates?

Presented by Barbara Picone

• 09:20 Judith Masters. A morphological and molecular interpretation of the evolution of the Malagasy lemurs

  Presented by Judith Masters

• 09:40 Fabien Génin and Judith Masters. The evolution of body-size and Madagascar’s mouse and dwarf lemurs

Presented by Fabien Génin

• 10:00 Hajarimanitra Rambeloarivony and Fabien Génin. Microcebus griseorufus: generalist or specialist?

Presented by Hajarimanitra Rambeloarivony

• 10:20 Riashna Sithaldeen, Jacqueline Bishop and Rebecca Ackermann. Intraspecific phylogeography of the chacma baboon

Presented by Riashna Sithaldeen

• 10:40 Annesca Bubb, Karen Ehlers, Antoinette Kotze and J. Paul Grobler. Preliminary results on the genetic structure of baboons on the Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve; with notes on the efficacy of DNA extraction from faecal samples

Presented by Paul Grobler.

• 11:00 TEA
• 11:20 L. Sineo, M. Roccella, B. Picone, F. Génin, R. Stanyon and J. Masters. Preliminary data on cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy of Cercopithecus albogoularis labiatus (samango monkey)

Presented by Luca Sineo

• 11:40 Ntuthuzelo Makhasi. Intraspecific variation in the samango monkey, (Cercopithecus mitis) in South Africa

Presented by Ntuthuzelo Makhasi

• 12:00 Kirsten Wimberger. The spatial, feeding and behavioural ecology of the samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis labiatus) in Afromontane forest patches in Hogsback, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Presented by Kirsten Wimberger

• 12:20 Riël Coetzer, Paul Grobler and Trudy Turner. Population genetic structure of vervet monkeys in the southern and central regions of South Africa

Presented by Riël Coetzer

• 12:40 J. Danzy, J.P. Grobler, J.G. Lorenz, N. Freimer and T.R. Turner. Geographic variation in the scrotal coloration of vervet monkeys

Presented by Jennifer Danzy

• 13:00 LUNCH at the Ecoshrine, PEGG Photograph
  

• 14:30 Teagan Gaetano, Trudy Turner and J. Paul Grobler. The effect of social challenges associated with reproduction on hormonal concentrations and behaviour in male vervet monkeys.

Presented by Teagan Gaetano

• 14:50 Manyingerew Shenkut, Solomon Yirga, and Mezgebu Ashagrie. A preliminary survey of Erythrocebus patas in Anbesa Chaka, Bambesi Woreda of Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Western Ethiopia.

Presented by Manyingerew Shenkut

• 15:10 Shahrina Chowdhury. Stress and reproduction in a managed population of chacma baboons in the Cape Peninsula

Presented by Shahrina Chowdhury

• 15:30 Christopher Schmitt. Juvenile primates

Presented by Christopher Schmitt

• 15:50 TEA

• 16:30 Olivia Stone, Shawn Laffan and Darren Curnoe. The distribution of the chacma baboon prior to anthropogenic change

Presented by Olivia Stone

• 16:50 Julian Saunders and Larissa Swedell. The Imfene Baboon Conservation and Education Initiative: A way forward

Presented by Julian Saunders

• 17:10 Nico Snyman. South Africa’s environmental legislation
• 17:30 Norman Morrisey. The poetry of primates
• Panel Discussion: Territorial disputes: mitigating the conflict between non-human primates and the human residents of Hogsback
  • Panelists: Julian Sanders, Nico Snyman, Larissa Swedell, Kirsten Wimberger and Jenni Trevathan
• 19:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Sunday, June 27

• 9:30 Kouamou Moise. Primate behaviour in captivity
• 9:50 PEGG AGM followed by meetings of: Meetings committee, Conflict committee and Newsletter committee
• 10:30 Field trips and forest walks

--- Winner of the 2010 Student Prize -- Olivia Stone ---