Zhanna Reznikova

Zhanna Reznikova is a behavioral ecologist, Professor of the Novosibirsk State University (Department of General Biology and Ecology), head of the Research Team at Institute for Animal Systematic and Ecology (Laboratory of Insect Ecology). Zhanna Reznikova is an expert in application of information theory to study of complex communication in animals. Her original researches are mostly aimed on the intricate questions of inter-relations between competitors and symbionts in insect communities. She is an author of several books including a monograph Interspecies Inter-Relations in Ants, and 3-volum textbook on comparative psychology (Intelligence and Language, Between a Dragon and a Fury, and War and Piece in Species and Populations). Last year she gave a talk on the 2^nd Summer School on Human Ethology (Puschino) Dialog with Black Box: Different Approaches for Studying Animal Communication

Preliminary title of her lecture: Social learning in bipeds, quadrupeds, hexapods, octopods, and decapods