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Please note the newsletter has been updated with another publication.
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Photo © Bart Zijlstra
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Info DEE # 52 - July 2023
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A WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Mr Malik Fagnart has joined the group of Prof. Bertelsmeier as an Intern. Malik is located in office 3112, phone 41.94. malik.fagnart@unine.ch
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Ms Angélica Pulido has joined the group of Prof. Goudet as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Angélica is located in office 4310,phone 41.82. Angelica.Pulido@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of our new student assistants:
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GATTOLLIAT Arno (Schwander Group)
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Congratulations to Robert Waterhouse for his new position, starting 1st September, as Director of Environmental Bioinformatics at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. He will be setting up and leading this new SIB group in nearby Amphipole building on UNIL campus.
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Congratulations to Tad Kawecki for receiving the Faculty Special award for outstanding dedication in practical teaching, for his involvement in the bachelor and master programs of the school of biology, in particular for the exemplary follow-up of the students.
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Several DEEers enjoyed stunning views of the Lavaux area on a bike ride organised by Roman Arguello. Seasoned and casual cyclists made the roundtrip from Lausanne to Chexbres, with some well-deserved refreshments along the way. Well done, everyone!
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Antoine Guisan and colleagues have published an article in Scientific Reports entitled "Linking plant and vertebrate species to Nature’s Contributions to People in the Swiss Alps".
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Although ecosystem services or nature’s contributions to people are now well established in the conservation ecology science, these definitions of services for humans were often used in opposition to biodiversity conservation. In a new paper just out, we proposed to associate more tightly ES/NCP directly with species. To do this, we created a table relating more than 2’000 species (plants and vertebrates observed in the Swiss Alps) with 17 NCPs. We illustrated the 31,098 identified species-NCP relationships for the two lineages and discuss why such a table is a key initial step in building spatial predictions of NCPs directly from species occurrences or predictions, as a way to complement spatial conservation planning.
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Fanny Cavigliasso and Tadeusz Kawecki have been invited to contribute to the Evolution Letters Editor's Blog, writing about their work on the evolution of amino acid metabolism in response to chronic nutrient shortage in Drosophila
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Philippe Christe co-authored a paper in the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology entitled: The son-killer microbe Arsenophonus nasoniae is a widespread associate of the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis in Europe. This study is the result of a European collaboration led by Gregory Hurst of the University of Liverpool, UK.
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Romain Pigeault, while working for the Christe group, directed Angela Ruiz de la Paz's master's degree. This work, supplemented by part of Julie Isaïa's thesis with the precious help of Molly Baur and Olivier Glaizot from the Museum of Zoology, led to a publication in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution entitled:
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Impact of host stress on the replication rate of Plasmodium: take it easy to avoid malaria recurrences,
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While you are encouraged to place your publications into Serval, please make sure that your PI has validated the deposition first. Not all documents should be included in Serval, and they are complicated to remove.
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