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Twenty-third Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Thursday June 22[Top]

6:45AM-8:00AM: Past Presidents. Breakfast (table reserved at the Regal Harvest House Restaurant)

FLAGSTAFF ROOM
8:00AM-8:15AM Welcome
Welcome by Mollie Bloomsmith (Program Committee), Mark Laudenslager (Local Host), Richard Reading (Director of Conservation Biology, Denver Zoological Gardens), Steven Dubovsky (Interim Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center).
Introductory Remarks by Nancy Caine (ASP President).

8:15AM-9:15AM Keynote Address: Duane M. Rumbaugh: "The Apes and Us: Brain and Emergent Processes" [I-1] (Flagstaff Room)
FLAGSTAFF ROOM
9:30AM-12:00NOON
Session 1
Learning and Cognition,
Part A
CANYON ROOM
9:30AM-12:00NOON
Session 2
Enrichment, Breeding,
and Reproduction
SUGARLOAF ROOM
9:30AM-12:00NOON
Session 3
Acquisition and
Maintenance of Social
Dominance in Macaques and Vervets (Symposium)
12:00NOON-1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00PM-2:00PM

Featured Speaker: Patricia Wright: "Moon Ghosts from a Distant Island: Researching the Lemurs of Madagascar" [I-4] (Flagstaff Room)

FLAGSTAFF ROOM
2:15PM-4:45PM
Session 4
Social Behavior,
Part A
CANYON ROOM
2:15PM-4:15PM
Session 5
Environmental
Enhancement: Policy,
Plans and Perspectives
(Roundtable)
SUGARLOAF ROOM
2:15PM-4:15PM
Session 6
Cognitive Research
in Zoological Parks
(Workshop)
CANYON ROOM
4:30PM-9:00PM
Session 7
Films Dedicated to Newer Material
On Lesser-known Macaques
5:00PM-7:00PM Session 8: POSTER SESSION I: Enrichment/Colony Management; Breeding/ Reproduction; Feeding/Nutrition; Social Behavior; Ecology/Conservation (Century Room)
7:00PM-9:00PM ASP Executive Committee Meeting

Friday June 23[Top]
FLAGSTAFF ROOM
8:00AM-10:30AM
Session 9
Learning and Cognition,
Part B
CANYON ROOM
9:00AM-11:00AM
Session 10
Creating Employment Niches
in 21st Century Primatology
(Symposium)
SUGARLOAF ROOM
8:00AM-10:30AM
Session 11
Behavioral Genetics
(Symposium)
11:00AM-12:00NOON Featured Speaker: David G. Amaral: "The Role of the Amygdala in Primate Social Behavior" [I-2] (Flagstaff Room)
12:00NOON-1:00PM Lunch Break
ASP Board of Directors Meeting and Luncheon
FLAGSTAFF ROOM
1:00PM-3:30PM
Session 12
Social Behavior,
Part B
CANYON ROOM
1:00PM-3:00PM
Session 13
Preparing for Life
after Graduate School
(Roundtable)
SUGARLOAF ROOM
1:00PM-3:00PM
Session 14
Behavioral Genetics
Research in Nonhuman
Primate Populations
(Roundtable)
3:30PM-5:00PM ASP Business Meeting (Flagstaff Room)
5:00PM- 7:00PM Session 15: POSTER SESSION II: Learning/Cognition; Physiology/Immunology; Endocrinology; Neuroscience/Pharmacology; Research Methods; Infant Development/ Maternal Behavior; Demography/Population Studies; Human Evolution/Anatomy/Growth (Century Room)

Saturday June 24[Top]
FLAGSTAFF ROOM
8:00AM-9:30AM
Session 16
Infant Development/
Maternal Behavior
CANYON ROOM
8:00AM-9:30AM
Session 17
Neuroscience/Pharmacology
Physiology/Immunology
SUGARLOAF ROOM
8:00AM-11:00AM
Session 18
Ecology/Conservation
Feeding/Nutrition
Anatomy/Growth
FLAGSTAFF ROOM
9:30AM-11:30AM
Session 19
Gestural Communication
in Primates
(Symposium)
CANYON ROOM
9:30AM-11:30AM
Session 20
Primates and Public Health
(Roundtable)
11:30AM-12:30NOON Featured Speaker: Lynn A. Fairbanks: "The Nurture Assumptions: Things Your Mother Never Told You" [I-3] (Flagstaff Room)
12:30NOON-1:30PM Lunch Break
American Journal of Primatology Editorial Board Meeting
1:00PM Departure for local hikes
6:30PM Buses begin transportation to Red Lion Inn for Banquet
7:00PM Banquet begins at the Red Lion Inn
"Dinner in the Hills with Dancing in the Grass"
Sunday June 25[Top]
9:00AM Departure for tour of Denver Zoological Gardens

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