Pierre Capy and Yves Carton were both quoted in the book “”Histoire d’une cité scientifique, Le campus du CNRS à Gif-sur-Yvette (1946-2016)” by Denis Guthleben. This book, “History of a scientific town, the CNRS campus in Gif-sur-Yvette (1946-2016)” gives a picture of the campus history with testimonies of scientists and pictures.    

Nicolas Pollet (Polygnome) gave a conference to a group of general audience thursday the 1st of December in the framework of the “Jeudi de la Recherche” organized by the Centre de la Vulgarisation Scientifique and the Gif/Yvette administration (https://www.cvc.u-psud.fr/spip.php?article32). The subject was the microbiota of amphibiens. It was followed by a visit of the lab.

The book Empreinte du vivant l’ADN de l’environnement coordinated by Dominique Joly (PACS), Denis Faure and Sylvie Salamitou (Communication of EGCE) and co-edited by CNRS and cherche-midi received the 2016 prize for environment of the Véolia Foundation. The prize was proclamed in the foire aux livres of Brive-la-Gaillarde the 6th of November.

  Yves Carton (DEEIT) authored a book entitled “Histoire de l’entomologie Relations entre biologistes français et américains 1830-1940”. It is published by ISTE editions. The book depicts the relations between french and american biologists over a eventful century. The Academy of Sciences, letters and arts of Marseille will award the 16th of December 2016 the

Gérard Arnold (Evolbee) co-authored a report for European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) entitled “Assessing the health status of managed honeybee colonies (HEALTHY-B): a toolbox to facilitate harmonised data collection“. To read the report, please click here.

Frédéric Méry and his team (EPCC) were interviewed by a journalist of RTS for the program CQFD. The topic was memory . Experiments about memory of the choices of a group of drosophila and of social learning were described. To listen to the program, please follow the link.

Jean-Christophe Sandoz (Evolbee) gave an interview to the La Recherche journal (October 2016). The article deals with olfactive capacities in bees. To read teh article .

The DEEIT team contributed to a television report dealing with biological pest control.  It will be broadcasted on Arte the 11th of  october at 22h40 (rediffusion the following days on Arte +7). The film is entitled  “The new warriors of the fields” by Claude-Julie Parisot. It is a documentary lasting 50 min on biological pest