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Info DEE # 7 - July 2019 (corrigenda)
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Dr Amaury Avril is back as External Scientific Collaborator to contribute to the "Opération Fourmis" project in collaboration with the SVSN. Welcome back Amaury! When he visits us, Amaury is located in office 3112, phone 41.94. amaury.avril@unil.ch
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Mr Franz Chai joined the group of Prof. Alexandre Roulin for a couple of weeks internship. Franz.Chai@unil.ch
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Ms Sidonie Nicole joined the group of Prof. Alexandre Roulin for a couple of weeks internship. Sidonie.Nicole@unil.ch
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Ms Melanie Perret joined the group of Prof. Alexandre Roulin for a couple of weeks internship.
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Dr Giulia Zancolli joined the group of Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi with a Marie Curie fellowship. Giulia is located in office 3214, phone 42.04. Giulia.Zancolli@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of student-assistants: Ms Audrey Atherton (group Wedekind), MsManzocchi Silvana (group Sanders) and Mr Simon Vogel (group Schwander). Welcome (or welcome back) to them too.
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Congratulations to Prof. Philippe Christe and Prof. Robert Waterhouse who where both elected to the Faculty Council.
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Prof. Laurent Keller was interviewed by the RTS "Chronique scientifique" to talk about ant's ability to adapt to heat waves. He was also interviewed by Le Temps to explain the secret of termite longevity
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Prof. Erica van de Waal was interviewed by the RTS to talk about female solidarity among bonobos. You can hear it in the "Chronique Scientifique" show.
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Marc Bastardot, a master BEC student (group of Prof. Philippe Christe), is doing his master in collaboration with Wieland Heim from the Institute of Landscape Ecology in Münster. He is doing his field work in Russia and their work with Aleksey Antonov at Khingansky state nature reserve has made it to the Russian Television! You can find the short report about their songbird migration studies. They explain why the conservation of small songbirds is important, and how they catch them to study their migration with geolocators.
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Dr Frédéric Bastian has become Associated Group Leader in the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics group of Marc Robinson-Rechavi, to clarify his role in the Bgee team (see https://bgee.org).
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Congratulation to the Bgee team (group of Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi) who obtained funding from the EU Research an Innovation program H2020. The project INODE - Intelligent Open Data Exploration - will allow a better access and discoverability to any open data, and, of course, to the biological data in Bgee. This project involves 9 academic and SME partners from 6 European countries. The project is funded for 3 years, for a total of 5.7 millions euros.
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Congratulations to Prof. Robert Waterhouse who obtained a Sinergia SNF grant to work with Prof. Christophe Dessimoz (DBC, UNIL) and Prof. Bruno Lemaitre (SV, EPFL) on insect innate immunity.
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Prof. Laurent Keller contributed to a review in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. In this review, the authors explore the links between social behavior and genome architecture and propose that social behavior can influence genome architecture via associated demographic changes due to social living.
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Figure: Bidirectional links and feedbacks between Social Behavior and the Genome.
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The first First-Aid Training for Field Worker co.organized by the DEE (Dr Luca Fumagalli) and the H&S Unil Service took place in June. Thanks to the participants and organizers. Do not hesitate to consult the main security recommendations and to register to a next session.
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