Romain Benoist

Member of the DEEIT team Phd student, Ecole doctorale « Sciences de la Nature et de l’Homme : évolution et écologie ». Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (UPMC), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHM) Thesis supervisor: B. Le Rü; Co-supervisor: L.Kaiser-Arnauld and F. Mougel Research topic: My scientific activity focuses on Cotesia typhae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), an African parasitoid. As […]

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Insect-plant interactions

“Insect-Plant Interactions in a Crop Protection Perspective”, the latest edition in the Advances in Botanical Research series, publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in the plant sciences. This month, a special volume co-edited by Paul-André Calatayud (DEEIT, IRD) is devoted to insect-plant interactions. This book features different aspects of these

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Jeudi de la Recherche

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.

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Book on the history of entomology

  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

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Bee health

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.

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Memory and drosophila

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.

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