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Info DEE # 6 - June 2019
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Dr Jelena Bujan joined the group of Prof. Cleo Bertelsmeier as Postdoctoral fellow. Jelena is located in office 3223, phone 42.49. Jelena.Bujan@unil.ch
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Ms Morgane Henry is back at the DEE for a couple of months in the group of Prof. Tanja Schwander. Morgane will help to take care with the insects of the group. Morgane is located in office 3221, phone 42.45. Morgane.Henry@unil.ch
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Mr Sylvain Kreuter is back for a few months in the group of Prof. Claus Wedekind as lab Technician. Sylvain is located in office 3222, phone 42.48.Sylvain.Kreuter@unil.ch
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Ms Eliane Longange joined the group of Prof. Claus Wedeking in the frame of a few months Intership. Eliane is located in office 3222, phone 42.48.
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Dr Ivan Dario Mateus Gonzalez is back at the DEE in the group of Prof. Ian Sanders as Bioinformatician. Ivan is located in office 4315, phone 42.46. IvanDario.MateusGonzalez@unil.ch
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Dr Sean McKenzie is back in the group of Prof. Laurent Keller to continue his Marie-Curie project after a few months interruption. Sean is located in office 2105, phone 41.86. Sean.McKenzie@unil.ch
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Ms Giulia Perroud joined the group of Prof. Claus Wedekind as lab Technician. Giulia is located in office 3222, phone 42.48. Giulia.Perroud@unil.ch
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Ms Céline Plancherel is back at the DEE to work on an Agora project with Prof. Alexandre Roulin. Céline is located in office 3212.1, phone 41.18. Celine.Plancherel@unil.ch
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Dr Timothy Szewczyk joined the group of Cleo Bertelsmeier as Postdoctoral fellow. Tim is located in office 3223, phone 42.49. TimothyMichael.Szewczyk@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of new student-assistants: Mr Victor Ammann (back in the group Wedekind), Mr Andrei-Lucian Dascalu (group Keller) and Mr Nathan Gellé (group Christe). Welcome (or welcome back) to them too.
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EXTERNAL SEMINARS
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There is one more last DEE External Seminars for the spring season. It will be on July 3rd and will be the opportunity to hear Dr Evan P. Economo from the
Max Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Dr Economo will be hosted by Prof. Laurent Keller and will talk about "Linking evolutionary innovations and the diversification of organismal design using ants as a model taxon".
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On May 11, 2019 Prof. Alexandre Roulin met the Pope with Israeli and Jordanian partners. It was a unique opportunity to present the Owl for Peace project. See more information here.
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Congratulations to Prof. Alexandre Roulin who obtained an AGORA SNF grant to develop and promote the dialogue with farmers through the study and preservation of owls. Find more information about the research of the Roulin's group here.
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Prof. Alexandre Roulin was interviewed for the RTS show "Premier Rendez-vous", where he discussed with the President of the International league of Esperanto's Teachers. You can here the discussion here.
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Congratulations to Amaranta Fontcuberta who received a grant from CIRM (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Montagne) to organize an interdisciplinary project about the mountain valley where she studies ants for her PhD. The project called "La Rencontre Interdisciplinaire de métiers de Derborence" will rassemble geologists, engineers, sheperds and biologists in a conference on June 26th in Conthey (Valais). This will be followed by a series of thematic walks about each profession in the valley of Derborence during Saturday afternoons of July and August.
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Congratulations to Jérémy Gremion who received on June 6th a Faculty Prize for the excellence of his master work under the supervision of Prof. Philippe Christe. This work is the result of a collaboration with the Division of Conservation Biology of the University of Bern (Prof. Raphaël Arlettaz and Dr Alain Jaccot). The master thesis was entitled "Habitat preference of wintering Ortolan Buntings (Emberiza Hortulana) in Ethiopian agroecosystems".
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The DEE thanks all the PhD Students, Lab Technicians, Postdocs and PIs who contributed this year to the Mystères de l'UNIL. It was a huge success and the public obviously enjoyed to learn more about what type of research is done at the DEE.
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Still in the frame of the Mystères de l'UNIL, Prof. Erica van de Waal and Christine La Mendola were interviewed by the newspaper 24heures (May 11-12) for their contributions to the Mystères 2019. See the article here.
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Prof. Erica van de Waal was interviewed by Allez Savoir about the social life of Vervet Monkeys and her research project. You can see the interview here.
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Prof. Antoine Guisan was interviewed for the show FORUM (RTS.CH) om May 6th 2019 to talk about "Global biodiversity threatened by mankind". You can here the interview here.
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Prof. Laurent Keller is invited by EPFL to give a seminar on June 21st, 2019 from 11:00 to 12:00 (place SV1717). He will talk about "Sex, Sociality and Supergenes".
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Prof. Claus Wedekind will give his inaugural lecture as full Professor at the DEE on June 17th 2019 at 5:15 pm in the Biophore Auditorium. The lecture will be followed by an apero in the Biophore hall.
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Thomas Kay (PhD Student), Prof. Laurent Lehmann and Prof. Laurent Keller, published an article in Current Biology (≠29, R425-R473) about "Kin Selection and altruism" showing paradigmatic examples of altruistic phenotypes explained by kin selection.
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DEE members Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi and Prof. Robert Waterhouse and former DEE members Mathieu Seppey, Camille Pitteloud, Dr Julien Roux and Prof. Nadir Alvarez published an article in Genome Biology showing how the dynamic evolution of detoxification genes underlies the diversity of plant-feeding beetles. The study explored the possible genomic consequences of plant–beetle interactions by contrasting gene repertoires of nine species each from the mostly plant-eating Polyphaga with those of the mainly predatory Adephaga.
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Sexually attractive or competitive males are hypothesized to pass on genes for pathogen resistance, providing genetic incentive for mating with them, but evidence for this is mixed. A new paper coming out of Patrick Joye’s PhD work shows that Drosophila males that are more sexually successful sire indeed sons with higher resistance to a bacterial pathogen – but only if sexual success is assessed after the males themselves have been exposed to the pathogen. In contrast, males that win female attention in the absence of the pathogen actually produce less resistant sons. Thus, rather than unconditionally signaling immunocompetence, traits involved in sexual selection may only reveal resistance to the pathogens to which the males were exposed when developing their sexual traits. In the absence of the pathogen resistance even carries a cost reducing male sexual success. In conclusion, whether sexual selection promotes pathogen resistance depends on the epidemiological context in which it operates. Proc. R. Soc. B
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If you are a PI, a PhD Student, a Postdoc or a PAT employed by the DEE, you can now check the availability of the DEE Car pool from the DEE's Intranet. Log in and go to DEE members / DEE Day to Day life / How to... book a vehicle.
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