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Info DEE # 10 - October 2019
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Ms Haydée Faure Leon joined the group of Prof. Roman Arguello as Lab Technician. Haydée is located in office 2106, phone 41.52. Haydee.FaureLeon@unil.ch
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Dr Sofia Forss joined the group of Prof. Erica van de Waal as External Scientific Collaborator for a few months. Sofia is located in office 2205.1, phone 42.75. Sofia.Forss@unil.ch
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Mr Etienne Lacroix-Carignan joined the group of Prof. John Pannell for a few months internship in the frame of a co-operative education program with the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec). Etienne is located in office 4310, phone 41.82. Etienne.Lacroix-Carignan@unil.ch
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Dr Sabine Rumpf joined the group of Prof. Antoine Guisan as Postdoctoral Fellow. Sabine is located in office 4301, phone 42.68. Sabine.Rumpf@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of new student-assistants: Ms Marianne Bachmann Salvy (group Keller), Ms Océane Dupont (group Chapuisat), Mr Nathan Gellé (group Keller), Ms Michelle Moujahed (group Chapuisat), Ms Solenn Sarton-Lohéac (back in the group Keller), Mr David Simonin (group Keller). Welcome (or welcome back) to them too.
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EXTERNAL SEMINARS
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Next DEE external seminars will be held on October 9th, October 16th and October 30th. You will have the opportunity to hear Dr Puri Lopez Garcia speaking about Unraveling microbial evolution through metagenomics and single cell genomics (hosted by C. Bertelsmeier), Dr Jean-Philippe Lessard speaking about the Community ecology biogeography of functional traits in ants (hosted by C. Bertelsmeier) and Dr Patrick Nosil from the University of Montpellier (hosted by Tanja Schwander). For more information, visit the DEE Seminar agenda.
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A former PhD Student of the group of Prof. Nicolas Perrin, Dr Christophe Dufresnes, published an illustrated field guide which identifies 139 species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. The book is entitled: "Guide photographique des amphibiens d'Europe, d'Afrique du Nord et du Proche-Orient". See the UNIL press release to learn more about this book.
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Congratulations to Jialin Liu, PhD student in the group of Prof. M. Robinson-Rechavi, who has defended his thesis on Sept. 27th 2019. Jialin worked on Selection against expression noise and the origin of hourglass pattern Evo-Devo.
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Prof. Erica van de Waal was interviewed at the RTS to talk about the concept of alpha male among Vervet monkeys communities. You can hear the interview here.
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Prof. Laurent Keller is invited by the Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (SVSN) and the Société Académique Vaudoise (SAV) to give the Academic 2019 conference. Scheduled on October 16th at the Palais de Rumine, the conference, in French, is entitled "Sociétés animales et sociétés humaines, les causes de leur succès".
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Prof. Alexandre Roulin was also interviewed in the Tages Anzeiger. He explained how science and owls may help "to reconcile conflict communities and build mutual trust through a new form of cooperation".
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Dr. Michel Sartori (Privat-Docent at UNIL and Director of the Museum of Zoology) and Dr. Olivier Glaizot (associate Researcher at UNIL and Curator at the Museum) answered to RTS about the exhibition DISPARUS! which provides an update on extinct or threatened species.
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Prof. Jacques Dubochet continues to raise awareness of climate change and its consequences. You can read some of his thoughts in Le Temps and try to reply with him to this question: what are we waiting for to act ?
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Dr Luca Fumagalli was interviewed in the 24 Heures journal. In this article, he talks about the difficulty of relearning to live with "the big bad wolf".
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A common assumption in human medicine, livestock production, and conservation is that fertilising eggs with cryopreserved or fresh sperm has no effect on offsping performance. David Nusbaumer, Lucas Marques da Cunha and Claus Wedekind tested this in a within-subject experimental design with brown trout and found indeed no effects on embryo growth or stress tolerance. However, at later larval stages, when paternal genes play a more important role, being fertilised by cryopreserved sperm significantly reduced growth (by about 4%). Sperm cryopreservation is hence not as benign as assumed. (Nusbaumer et al., Proc. R. Soc. B, 2019).
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With his colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Waterhouse published in the journal Genome Research, results from analysing human, mouse, chicken, fly, worm, and mosquito genomes to predict novel conserved protein-coding regions. This requires building multi-species whole-genome alignments and performing downstream coding-potential analyses, currently being further developed by Romain Feron, PhD student in the Waterhouse Group.
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The person in charge of the Laser cutting system has changed. It is now Matthias Rüegg, PhD Student in the Keller's group who is in charge. In order to learn how to use the laser cutter and get your access granted to the laser-cutting room, contact Matthias (you have to anticipate so Matthias has the time to organize a short training for you).
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