NIMBioS Working Group: Play, Evolution, and Sociality

Participant List for NIMBioS Working Group:

Play, Evolution, and Sociality

Participant	Institutional affiliation	Areas of Expertise	Meetings
Erol Akçay	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ.	Advanced game theory modeling	1
Jeremy Auerbach	Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee	Mathematical ecology	2,3
Gordon Burghardt	Psychology, Ecology & Evol Biol, UTK	Comparative play theory; play in poikilotherms	1,2,3
Giada Cordoni	Evolutionary Biology, Universita de Pisa	Sociobiological & Ethological studies	2,3
Sigrunn Eliassen	Biology, Univ. of Bergen	Evolution of mating systems & cooperative behaviors	2
Hillary Fouts	Child and Family Studies, Univ. of Tennessee	Child care practices	1,2,3
Kerrie Lewis Graham	Anthropology, Texas State Univ., San Marcos	Comparative neurobases of play	1,3
Peter Hammerstein	Inst. Theoretical Biol, Humboldt Univ., Berlin	Game theory, social interactions in animals	1,3
Andrew Kanarek	NIMBioS	Ecological & evolutionary dynamics of small populations	2
Marc Mangel	Applied Mathematics & Statistics, UCSC	Dynamic models; quantitative behavioral ecology	1,3
Brian O'Meara	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UTK	Development of advanced phylogenetic models	1,2,3
Elisebetta Palagi	Primate Cent (CNR), Univ. of Pisa, Rome	Field/lab studies of play in primates	1,2,3
Sergio Pellis	Neuroscience, Univ. of Lethbridge	Comparative & microanalyses of play, neuroscience	1,2,3
Milada Řeháková (Petrů)	Decin Zoo, Czech Republic	Zoology	1,3
Jeff Schank	Psychology, Univ. of California, Davis	Developer of agent-based models of behavior	1,2,3
Masaki Shimada	Animal Sciences, Teikyo Univ. Science, Japan	Object play, social network models of primate play	1,2
Steve Siviy	Psychology, Gettysburg College	Comparative and neuroscience studies of play	2
Barbara Smuts	Psychology, Univ. of Michigan	Canid social play	1,2,3
Marek Spinka	Institute of Animal Science, Prague, Czech Republic	Ethologist	1,2

Group organizer
Mtg 1: Nov 30- Dec 2, 2011
Mtg 2: Oct 29-31, 2012
Mtg 3: Oct 30-Nov 1, 2013

Updated 11/1/2013

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.