EGCE laboratory is on twitter: @egce_lab.

Lionel Garnery (Evolbee) has been promoted to the head of the Fédération des Conservatoires de l’abeille noire (FEDCAN). This structure will set up a network with the various conservatories and will participate in making them more visible for the general audience. The objectives of the bee conservatories is to prevent the hybridizations of black bees

Two scientists, Samir Mezdour and Philippe Le Gall (DEEIT), will discuss with the audience about what our diet will be tomorrow: insects, plants and algae in our plates? This is going to take place at the F Mitterand médiathèque in Les Ulis saturday, the 27th of February at 11h.

A group of 3 laboratories (Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie (EGCE – CNRS/IRD/Univ Paris Sud), Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris (IEES – INRA/CNRS/UPMC/IRD/UPEC/Paris-Diderot) et Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte (IRBI – CNRS/Univ. François Rabelais) is involved in the international work that led to the publication of the sequence of the

Dominique Joly (PACS) and Sylvie Salamitou (Communication) with Denis Faure (I2BC) were in charge of the coordination of the writing  of a collective book on environnemental genomics. This book title is “Empreinte du vivant l’ADN de l’Environnement” and it is published by CNRS and cherche midi. The book offers a broad view of the current

A 30h R software course started the 19th of October in the Ecology Institute of UMSA (La Paz, Bolivia). It is organized by IRD in collaboration with the “Centro de Análisis Espacial”. François Rebaudo, with the help of Quentin Struelens (UMR EGCE), proposes a full training on the basis of this software. R is a

Aurélie Hua-Van (IGGIPOP) is involved in a project carried by a team of University of Tours in collaboration with scientists from University of Valence. This work showed that genes from parasitic wasps were found in the genome of numerous butterflies. These genes intregrated the genome thanks to the viruses that parasitic wasps injected in the

Laure Kaiser’s team published results showing that the population of the tiny parasitoid wasps Cotesia sesamiae that infect the caterpillar of Sesamiae nonagrioides is in fact a new species. This work was published in Evolutionary Applications: read the original paper. The work was used as material for a short communication of the INEE web site.