Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Entrance to the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen (Copyright: Stefan Müller-Naumann)
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Lake meadows
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Organismic biology, zoology , ornithology , neurobiology , behavioral ecology , evolutionary biology , evolutionary genetics
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Bart Kempenaers (Managing Director)
Employee: 150
Homepage: www.orn.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Ornithology is a non-university research institute under the auspices of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) and is based in the community of Pöcking in Bavaria belonging Seewiesen . The institute primarily conducts basic research in the field of organismic biology, zoology , ornithology , neurobiology , behavioral ecology , evolutionary biology and evolutionary genetics. The institute is run collegially, ie one of the two directors at the institute takes over the management for a certain period of time. As of January 2020, Bart Kempenaers is Managing Director.

history

The inauguration of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology took place on the site in Seewiesen in 1958 under the direction of Erich von Holst and the later Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz . In 1959 the Radolfzell ornithological station was affiliated to the MPI for Behavioral Physiology, where bird ringing is still coordinated in southern Germany, Austria and Berlin. The history of the ornithological station in Radolfzell goes back to the ornithological station Rossitten, founded in 1901 by the German Ornithological Society under Johannes Thienemann , in what was then East Prussia (today ornithological station Rybatschi ). The ornithological station in Rossitten was incorporated into the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in 1924 , relocated to Radolfzell in 1946 and incorporated into the Max Planck Society in 1949. The Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology closed in 1999 and became the Research Center for Ornithology of the Max Planck Society when the department of Eberhard Gwinner (Andechs) and Peter Berthold at the Radolfzell ornithological station became independent . The research center became the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in 2004. Until June 2019, the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology had a sub-institute in Radolfzell on Lake Constance and Constance with the directors Martin Wikelski and Iain Couzin . The sub-institute has been an independent Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Biology since then.

Structure of the institute

The institute consists of two departments, seven research groups and two working groups.

  • Behavioral Neurobiology Department, Manfred Gahr
  • Behavioral Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Department, Bart Kempenaers
  • Research Group Evolution of Sensory Systems, Maude Baldwin
  • Research group communication and social behavior, Henrik Brumm
  • Research group Acoustic and Functional Ecology, Holger Goerlitz
  • Research group Evolutionary Physiology, Michaela Hau
  • Research group behavioral genetics and evolutionary ecology, Clemens Küpper
  • Vogelschlaf research group, Niels Rattenborg
  • Research group Neural Basics of Vocal Communication, Daniela Vallentin
  • Comparative Cognitive Biology Group, Auguste von Bayern
  • Working group Pablo Oteiza

Wind tunnel for bird migration research

The MPI for Ornithology has had a wind tunnel at its Seewiesen location since 1999, which was specially designed to investigate aerodynamic aspects and which enables researchers to observe and document flying animals in a flight chamber. In the first few years, research focused primarily on metabolic issues (heart rates, wing beat frequencies, water balance, lipid metabolism, etc.), but the facility offers additional infrastructure for many other types of studies. The wind tunnel can also be used by external scientists; it is the second in the world to be built for flight tests with birds.

International Max Planck Research School for Organizational Biology

Since 2009, doctoral training has been taking place at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in the International Max Planck Research School for Organizmal Biology (short: IMPRS for Organizmal Biology), a structured doctoral program that is jointly organized with the Max Planck Institute for behavioral biology in Radolfzell and Konstanz and the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz .

literature

  • Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Institute for Ornithology , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - Data and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pages 668–671; Part 2: Institutes and Research Centers M – Z ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pages 227–234; 686-702; 741-749.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.orn.mpg.de/kontakt
  2. ↑ https://www.archiv-berlin.mpg.de/60885/MPG_Handbuch_zur_Institutsgeschichte_Bd_2_Tb_2_E-Book.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.orn.mpg.de/2245/Forschung

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 8 ″  E