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.

Philippe Le Gall (DEEIT) organized a field school in Nord West Cameroun from the 15th of april to the 25th of april 2015. Nicolas Pollet (Polygnome) participated among other europeans and camerounaise teachers. The french embassy published a post about this unique experience.

Frédéric Marion-Poll (Pacs) collaborated to the making of a reportage on eatable insects. The CNRS Le Journal web site put it on display. The newspaper Le Monde chose it to go on its web site.

D. Joly (PACS) and D. Faure (Institut for Integrative Biology of the Cell) are the editors of two special issues of Genetica and Heredity on Environnemental Genomics which are published thanks to the Reseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire -Génomique Environnementale. Find the special issue in Genetica and the special issue in Heredity.