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Prof. Dr. Marc Naguib
M. Naguib / M Naguib / Marc Naguib / marc naguib |
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visiting address
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postal address
NIOO-KNAW
Centre for Terrestrial Ecology
P.O. Box 40
6666 ZG Heteren
The Netherlands
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Last update:
29 September 2008
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Education
2007 Promoted to rank of professor, University Bielefeld, Germany
2001 Habilitation in zoology, University Bielefeld, Germany
1995 Ph.D, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
1991 Diplom in biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Academic positions
2008 – ongoing Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Department of Population Biology, Heteren,
2002 – 2007 Associate professor (C2), Department of Animal Behavior, University Bielefeld, Germany
2000 to 2002 Assistant professor (C1), Department of Animal Behavior, University Bielefeld, Germany
1995 - 1999 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institute of Behavioral Biology,
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Administrative activities
2006 – ongoing Secretary of the ASAB grants committee (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)
2004 - ongoing Elected member of ASAB council
2004 2007 Representative of non-full professor academic professionals, Biology Department,
University Bielefeld
1996 to 1999 Representative of non-full professor academic professional, Faculty of Biology,
Freie Universität Berlin
Editorial activities
2003 - ongoing Editor for the journal Advance in the Study of Behaviour
2004 – 2006 Editor for the journal Animal Behaviour
2003 Section Editor in Animal Communication for the
Encyclopedia in Language and Linguistics 2, to appear in 2005, Elsevier.
2000- 2003 Consulting Editor for the journal Animal Behaviour
Current research funding
Communication networks in nightingales, German Science Foundation (NA335/8)
Effects of early developmental stress on sexually selected traits and life history strategies and fitness in zebra finches, German Science Foundation (NA335/6)
Mother-offspring communication in domestic guinea pigs: effects of maternal reproductive and hormonal state. German Science Foundation (NA335/7)
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this project is currentlty being developed
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keywords: maternal effects; song learning; sexual selection; evolutionary ecology, developmental and phenotypic plasticity; early developmental stress; life history
The aim of this project is to understand how environmental conditions early in life contribute to the expression of fitness relevant behavioral, life history and biometric traits and how such effects are transmitted across generations. The project allows linking adult traits under sexual and natural selection to epigenetic developmental variables such as availability of food or the extent of nestling competition during development. We study effects of early environmental conditions on male song learning and song complexity, female mate preferences, learning, personality traits and life history strategies. The results thus contribute to our general understanding of non-genetic effects on phenotypic variation within and across generations.
PhD student working on this project: Mariam Honarmand (since 2005), University Bielefeld
PhD student working on this project: Tobias Krause (since 2007), University Bielefeld
Funded by German Science Foundation (NA335/6)
 
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keywords: animal vocal communication; communication networks; sexual selection; behavioral-, spatial-, cognitive- and sensory ecology; evolutionary ecology
The aim of this project is to understand how animals gather information within a communication network and how signaling traits are linked to reproductive success. We here use nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) as our main model in which we study traits of male elaborate song and male strategies of using songs during vocal interactions. Using descriptive and experimental bioacoustic techniques, radio-tracking techniques (spatial ecology), systematic registration of biometric traits, patterns of territorial settlement, as well as molecular paternity analysis we aim to understand the evolution of territorial animal communication systems. The project is cooperation with V. Amrhein at the Petite Camargue Alsacienne in France http://pages.unibas.ch/pca/.
PhD student working on this project: Philipp Sprau
Funded by German Science Foundation (NA335/8)
  
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keywords: parent-offspring recognition; maternal investment; reproductive state; hormones and behavior
In this project, which is a cooperation with Prof. Fritz Trillmich at the University Bielefeld in germany, we study mother offspring communication in relation to female's reproductive and hormonal state. Parental care is a defining characteristic of mammals and essential for offspring development and survival and the ability to raise offspring successfully can depend fundamentally on the mother's ability to respond appropriately to their offspring signals. Specifically we are interested in this project to test for the relative importance of acoustic and olfactory cues in mother-offspring communication and how mother's responsiveness is linked to her hormonal state. To do so we use precocial guinea pigs (Cavia aperaea) as model species. The results of this project are expected to make an important contribution for understanding the evolution of mother-offspring communication and of parental care in precocial animals.
PhD student working on this project: Melanie Kober (since 2005), University Bielefeld
Funded by German Science Foundation (NA335/7)
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