About Us
The ISSABC is the International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition. We are an organisation that is run by students, for students, and as such our committee is entirely made up of student researchers.
We host an international conference biannually with a focus on animal behaviour. This conference aims to give the opportunity for students and early stage researchers to present their work to other students from around the world who are at a similar stage in their careers as an opportunity to those who might otherwise not have the opportunity at more conventional conferences which tend to focus on the work of later stage and more established researchers.
We have a heavy focus on making our conference as accessible and diverse as possible, hoping to bring the field of animal behaviour to all students regardless of their racial, educational, geographical and socioeconomic backgrounds, gender, sexual orientation or any disabilities they may have.
We have hosted two previous symposiums and our latest event will take place in Mexico City, Mexico in the summer of 2023. You can access the websites of the previous symposiums in the following links: Kyoto 2019 and London 2021.
Meet The Team

Dr Janire Castellano Bueno
Animal Welfare & Neuroscience, PhD | Newcastle University & Wild Animal Initiative
Lead organizer

Alexandros Vezyrakis
PhD Student - University of Potsdam & Germany Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
Finance

Chris Miller
PhD Student - Newcastle University, UK
Communications

Peter Xu
MRes Student - University of York, UK
Website design

Lucia Yllan
PhD student - Newcastle University, UK
Translations

Dr Matthew Wheelwright
Science communication
Website Article Editing

Alejandra Cespedes Gonzalez
PhD Student - Oklahoma University, USA
General Committee Member

Valentine Obiasogu
Research Assistant - Texas A&M University, USA
General Committee Member
Meet the UNAM team

Camilo Medina
Local Lead Organizer
UNAM

Aldair Emmanuel Vergara
Local Organizer
UNAM
Dr. Víctor Hugo Reynoso Rosales
Principal Investigator
UNAM
M. en C. Juana Margarita Garza Castro
Teacher
UNAM
Dr. Melissa Plasman
Research
UNAM