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Info DEE # 19 - August 2020
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Mr Aymeric Bonnamour joined the groups of Profs. Cleo Bertelsmeier and Laurent Keller as Lab Technician. Aymeric is located in office 2108.1, phone 41.93. Aymeric.Bonnamour@unil.ch
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Ms Julie Guenat joined the group of Dr Luca Fumagalli as PhD Student. Julie is located in office 3104, phone 41.81. Julie.Guenat@unil.ch
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Ms Elvire Sarton-Loheac joined the group of Prof. John Pannell for an intership of a few weeks. Elvire is located in office 4304, phone 42.79.
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Dr Peter James Stephenson joined the DEE as External Scientific Collaborator in the frame of his Chair at IUCN SSC Species Monitoring Specialist group. Peter is affiliated to Luca Fumagalli's group and is located in office 4309, phone 42.70.
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We are also glad to count on the help of new student-assistants: Ms Nora Khelidj (Keller group), Ms Alicia Rey (Kawecki group), Mr Mam Malick Sy Ndiaye (Robinson-Rechavi group), Ms Ellouène Charavel (Bertelsmeier group). Welcome to them too.
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External Seminars are still suspended at the moment. Some internal seminars are maintained through videoconference. In case of question about External seminars, please contact Prof. Charles Mullon. In case of questions about Internal seminars, please contact Tane Kafle and Olivia Bates.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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Congratulations to the Waterhouse group, who has been awarded an SNSF SPARK grant entitled "Next-generation data mining of organismal and ecological trait data across Arthropoda". The project aims to bring the fields of entomology and informatics together to develop modern resources that will greatly benefit researchers studying arthropod biodiversity and evolution. You can find a brief summary of the project here.
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From August to October 2020, biologists from UNIL, Roulin's group, propose, on four occasions, animations about the Barn Owl in the gardens of the Château de Vullierens. These special days complement the small exhibition that is permanently present on the site.
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Picture: © Guillaume Rapin
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Former members of the group of Nicolas Perrin published an article in Evolution letters showing that Toads hybridize despite having different sex chromosomes. This publication was also advertised by UNIL press release.
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With colleagues from the Utah State University, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and others, Prof. Robert Waterhouse published in the journal PNAS, results from investigating the evolutionary origins of eusociality using the facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis. Genes regulating social flexibility also regulate development: mechanisms underlying social plasticity are shared with ancient developmental processes, such as sex differentiation and metamorphosis. They also studied microRNAs in bee genomes and their expression in the brains of six species with variable social organisation. Published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the results suggest that novel miRNAs may coevolve with novel genes, and thus contribute to lineage-specific patterns of evolution.
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Picture: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
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With a colleague of the Inkawu Vervet Project, Prof. Erica van de Waal published in Primates an article explaining reactions to infant death by wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: prolonged carrying, non-mother carrying, and partial maternal cannibalism.
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We thank you and count on you all to continue the efforts with booking the google docs for the labs and office occupancy, mask wearing, desinfection of material and hands, observance of social distancing, due to the (still) pandemic situation. As you have probably all heard, precautions are more important than ever to avoid a second wave. See the guidelines of the FBM and take care.
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