Didier Casane (RESGEN) and Sylvie Rétaux (Neuro-psi) held a “Jeudi de la Recherche” session yesterday.  They received the public and spoke about cavefishes and evolution.

Quetzal was built by Arnaud Becheler (DEEIT). Quetzal is a new toolbox of reusable simulation components susceptible to help scientists to design new softwares for studying natural populations in landscapes. Here is the internet link to go further: https://becheler.github.io/quetzalAPI/html/index.html

EGCE lab will be at the science village at Le Moulon friday the 13th of October and sunday the 15th of October. 3 workshops will be held: Biocontrol of pests using a parasitic wasp/caterpillar model, Adaptation and speciation, and bees and odours.

Olivier Dangles (DEEIT, IRD) co-autered a book  on the ecology of water in altitude: “Ecology of high altitude waters”. This book is published by Oxford. Here is the internet link to go further: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ecology-of-high-altitude-waters-9780198736875?lang=en&cc=gb

P. Le Gall (DEEIT) is co-editor with Elisabeth Motte-Florac of a book on entomophagy by human beings : “Savoureux insectes: de l’aliment traditionnel à l’innovation gastronomique” . https://pufr-editions.fr/livre/savoureux-insectes

The authors of the book “Savoureux insectes – De l’aliment traditionnel à l’innovation gastronomique” (coedition Presses universitaires de Rennes/IRD, 2016) will talk about entomophagy or consumption of insects Sunday the 25th of June at the Quai Branly Museum from 4pm to 5.30 pm. There will be a debate with Nicolas Césard, anthropologue, maître de conférences

EGCEriales day were held the 29 and 30 of may 2017 on the HEC campus. The different teams of EGCE gave presentations of their work, some of which by visioconference from abroad. A storyfy twitter of these cessions was made, please click here.

Philippe Le Gall (DEEIT) and Nicolas Pollet (POLYGNOME) came back from a land school in Gabon (3 to 13 april). This land school fostered studies on the dynamics of forest structures in mangrove, the marine and freshwater biological diversity, the dynamics of coastal and estuarian diversity, biogeography and urban management, coastal sedimentation, ecotoxicology and the