Pierre Capy passed away
Nous venons d’apprendre avec une immense tristesse le décès de Pierre Capy, survenu le 3 février. We have just learned with great sadness of the death of Pierre Capy on February 3.Pierre was a geneticist specializing in Drosophila and genome evolution. His research focused on the molecular genetics of transposable elements, their evolutionary dynamics, and
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A mission in Zinbabwe
Pierre-Olivier Maquart and Philippe Le Gall conducted an initial mission in November 2025 as part of the FEF-R project: Cooperation for the Protection of Biodiversity in Zimbabwe. Funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Europe and the French Embassy in Zimbabwe, the project aims to enhance Zimbabwe’s heritage entomological collections through digitization, 3D
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Podcasts
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/
team building day
The 6th of November EGCE’s members met in Centre Port Royal for a team building day. In the morning people were invited to reflect on the Life at EGCE. The afternoon was dedicated to games.
A project to save a forest
The FEF Kakamega project, named after a tropical humid forest in Kenya, has been launched. Fabrice Requier (Pôle EGCE) is the coordinator. A video presents it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kEH_URW5mw
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More about soils
Fabrice Requier (Pôle Ecologie) is partner in the Horizon Europe ProPOllSoil project. More: https://www.propollsoil.eu/
News from Wild honey bees
Wild honeybee colonies, which scientists believed to be extinct in Europe, have just been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List. A group of researchers, Honey Bee Watch, resumed the study of these colonies and demonstrated their continued existence in various European Union countries. They nest in tree cavities, chimneys and
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Pierre-Olivier Maquart (Ecology Department) has returned from Indonesia for a mission as part of the PHC Nusantara program at Campus France. He went there to study the recycling of organic waste by the Black Soldier Fly, a fly used to convert this waste into a source of protein (through the larvae that can be fed