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Info DEE # 25 - March 2021
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Mr Grégory Brazzola joined the group of Prof. Claus Wedekind as Lab technician. Grégory is (will be) located in office 3223, phone 42.49. Gregory.Brazzola@unil.ch
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Mr Dany Buffat joined the group of Prof. Laurent Keller as Lab technician. Dany is (will be) located in office 2205, phone 56.15. Dany.Buffat@unil.ch
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Ms Morgane Calvani joined the group of Prof. Alexandre Roulin as Field assistant. Morgane is (will be) located in office 3206, phone 42.18. Morgane.Calvani@unil.ch
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Mr Hugo Dacier will join the group of Prof. Laurent Keller for an internship of a few months. Hugo will be located in office 2101, phone 41.76. Hugo.Dacier@unil.ch
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Mr Vitor De Oliveira Sudbrack joined the group of Prof. Charles Mullon as PhD Student. Vitor is (will be) located in office 4310, phone 41.82. Vitor.Sudbrack@unil.ch
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Ms Loraine Hablützel joined the DEE as Gardener in the greenhouse for a few months. Loraine is (will be) located most of time in the greenhouse or in office 4320, phone 42.74. Loraine.Hablutzel@unil.ch
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Ms Nora Khelidj joined the group of Prof. Cleo Bertelsmeier for an internship of a few months. Nora is (will be) located in office 3112, phone 41.94. Nora.Khelidj@unil.ch
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Ms Marion L'Huillier-Hunsinger joined the group of Prof. Cleo Bertelsmeier for an internship of a few months. Marion is (will be) located in office 3209.1, phone 42.07. Marion.LHuillier-Hunsinger@unil.ch
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Ms Juliette Recher joined the DEE as Gardener for the Botany Practicals of Prof. John Pannell. Juliette is (will be) located in office 4320, phone 42.74. Juliette.Recher@unil.ch
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Ms Aakanksha Singh joined the group of Prof. Michel Chapuisat for an internship of a few months. Aakanksha is (will be) located in office 3112, phone 41.94. Aakanksha.Singh@unil.ch
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Mr Alexandros Topaloudis (who used to work as SNF junior researcher) is now appointed as PhD student and has started a thesis in the group of Prof. Jérôme Goudet. Alexandros will still be located in office 4323, phone 42.43. Alexandros.Topaloudis@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of a new student-assistant at the animal house: Ms Bertille Bourg. Welcome to her too.
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Congratulations to Dr Germain Montazeaud (Keller group) who was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for his project SOCLE (SOCial seLEction in cultivated plants). The main goal of this project is to use the framework of social evolution theory to better understand plant-plant interactions in crops. Such understanding could notably open new opportunities to develop innovative agronomic solutions based on crop cooperation. The project will be conducted in collaboration with Agroscope.
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Congratulations to Prof. Alexandre Roulin who received the Champion of Owl Award given annualy during the Internation Owl Festival in Houston, USA, organized by the International Owl Center. This Award aims to celebrate an individual who has made a significant impact in the fields of conservation, science, legislation, education and rehabilitation of these noctural raptors. Watch Alexandre Roulin's lecture during the festival. See the UNIL Press release here.
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Professor Philippe Christe was interviewed by the RTS radio about the lyme disease and the role of parasites and contamination cycles in the transmission of this pathology. You can listen to the interview again here
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See the Press relase in Swissinfo.ch where Professor Laurent Keller explains how the division of labour in ant colonies has little to do with age but is apparently determined by random factors. This press release follows the publication of an article by the Keller group (see below) in Current Biology.
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Former PhD Students (Cristian Rincon, Lucas Villard) and bioinformatician (Frédéric Masclaux) of the Sanders Group published an article in Mycorrhiza.
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The article aims to gain a better understanding of processes involved in shaping tropical AMF community composition and AMF establishment are much needed and could allow for the development of sustainable, productive tropical agroecosystems.
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In a study published on March 16, 2021 in Current Biology, current and former members of the Keller group (Dr Thomas Richardson, Tomas Kay, Dr Raphaël Braunschweig, Dr Opaline Journeau, Matthias Ruëgg and Sean McGregor), discovered that, in ants, the chances of climbing the professional ladder within the colony are not determined by age, but by a random process. This allows the whole colony to remain robust throughout the year. This article was the subject of a UNIL press review.
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Prof. Erica van de Waal published a review article in iScience, entitled "Organized to learn: the influence of social structure on social learning opportunities in a group", resulting from a literature review of master student from Utrecht University that she supervised. This review explores how features of social structure affect social learning opportunities in primates, either through their relationship with social tolerance or through the number of social learning models. Features that are investigated in this review and that we hypothesize affect social learning opportunities are parental investment, dominance hierarchy, nepotism, social bonds, dispersal, group size, fission-fusion dynamics, and sex ratio. For most of these features we find evidence, but support varies. Of all primate species, only humans show all the requirements of an optimal social structure to promote social learning.
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We remind DEErs, in particular users of the labs that there is a lot of information on the website in the INTRANET section about access to the labs, equipement available, how to obtain some authorizations to use some machines, etc. See in particular the section "DAY TO DAY LIFE AT THE DEE". Also check the "WHO is WHO" section where you can discover who does what. Loggin to the Intranet from the DEE website welcome page.
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IT Support: from January 2021 in case of machine failure contact the helpdesk : helpdesk@unil.ch, always provide the inventory number of your machine (see the blue UNIL stiker on your computer). Do not go in person at the Helpdesk. If they need to see your computer, they will give you an appointement in your office. For any question related to orders, website, DEE mailing lists, for the moment contact Marlène : marlene.petit@unil.chHelpdesk.
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