Pierre Capy passed away this year. He served as director of the EGCE laboratory for many years. He was a great scientist who inspired a great deal of scientific and administrative work. He is one of the instigators of IDEEV. His students, colleagues, and friends pay tribute to him in a text published by the
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Pyrethroid pesticides are highly toxic to bees. But are the bees’ perception, memory, and learning centers affected by sublethal doses of these substances?Using a battery of cognitive tests, researchers were able to show that habituation and olfactory learning are indeed affected. However, calcium imaging experiments showed that for certain pesticides, the antennal lobes of bees
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The scientific article “Evolution of a novel left-right asymmetry in organ size by co-option of a tissue rotation process,” published by the team of Michael Lang and Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Bénédicte M. Lefèvre, Marine Delvigne, Aurélie Camprodon, Josué Vidal, Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, and Michael Lang), is one of three articles selected for the 2025 Development Outstanding Paper
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A group of about thirty children and parents from homeschooling programs visited IDEEV on March 31st for workshops. They listened to Matthieu Falque (GQE-Le Moulon) talk about DNA and Lucas Jacquier (ESE) discuss the movements of vultures. In addition, Karine Alix (GQE-Le Moulon) presented the “Goat and Cabbage” quiz game, adapted for a general audience,
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A high school class came from Sedan to visit IDEEV the 12th of March. They visited the glasshouse and the insectarium. For more details: https://www.ideev.universite-paris-saclay.fr/news/2026/03/de-jeunes-ardennais-%C3%A0-lideev.
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Animal pollination is essential for many cultivated and wild plants. However, this service is threatened by the decline in pollinator populations. What can be done? One solution could be planting flower beds designed to attract pollinators near crops as shown for appletrees. Experiments have shown that the hypothesis that these flower beds would instead compete
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What are the properties of gene regulation in genes whose expression is sensitive to environmental factors (plastic genes), as opposed to genes whose expression is independent of the environment (non-plastic genes)? Empirical and theoretical approaches have consistently revealed that plastic genes possess, on average, a greater number of regulators. Furthermore, theoretical predictions have shown that
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IRD and Compagnie Les sciences des mots released podcasts broadcasted on RFI. François Rebaudo (Pôle Ecologie) and his bolivian colleague Bruno Condori can be seen on episode 7 https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/microf-r-iction/
