Jean-François Silvain (DEEIT) was nominated as President of the Fondation pour la Recherche en Biodiversité (FRB).

La revue de Didier Casane et Patrick Laurenti (Multigen) a fait l’objet d’une brève du site “En direct des labos”, CNRS/INEE. Les deux chercheurs se retrouvent au coeur d’une controverse scientifique à la suite de la parution d’un article de Amemiya, CT et al. disponible dans Nature qui assure que le coelacanthe connait une évolution

EU takes control in the difficult matter  of bees mortality.  It commissionned a study (Epilobee) to unravel the causes of this disappearance. Unfortunately, the study doesn’t take into account all parameters. Gérard Arnold (Evolbee) developped a critical analysis  of this study in two radio programs on France Inter. You can listen to the programs by

In addition to the Journal du CNRS,  an internet site named CNRSlejournal was recently launched by CNRS (CNRSlejournal.fr). It is a free internet site  dedicated to popularization of nowadays researches and aimed at the general audience. It is interactive and dynamic. Its moto:  to give trustable informations allowing to inform public debates.

The “Petits films de l’évolution” (Teasers on evolution) are 4 teasers of about 30sec dealing each with an important idea in the field of evolution. They were downloaded on You tube but you can view them here: