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Info DEE # 5 - May 2019
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Mr Kai-Hsiu Chen joined the group of Prof. John Pannell as PhD Student. Kai-Hsiu is located in office 4310, phone 41.82. Kai-Hsiu.Chen@unil.ch
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Ms Augusta Ecuyer joined the DEE as Executive Secretary. Augusta work at 50%: Monday, Tuesday morning, Thursday. Augusta provides administrative support to the groups Arguello, Lehmann and Roulin. She is located in office 3109, phone 42.60. Augusta.Ecuyer@unil.ch
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Ms Nora Khelidj joined the group of Prof. John Pannell for a 2 months internship. Nora is located in office 4320, phone 42.74. Nora.Khelidj@unil.ch
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Mr Christophe Lakatos will join the group of Prof. Michel Chapuisat in a few days for a 2 months civilian service. Christophe will be located in office 3112, phone 41.94. Christophe.Lakatos@unil.ch
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Dr Christine Moos is employed by the new CIRM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Mountain Research) of the UNIL but you may see her on a regular basis at the DEE where she closely collaborates with the group of Prof. Antoine Guisan. When visiting, Christine will be located in room 4319, phone 43.19. Christine.Moos@unil.ch
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Dr Alia Rodriguez-Villate is back at the DEE for 3 months as visiting Scientist in the group of Prof. Ian Sanders . Alia will be located in office 4318, phone 42.61. Alia.Rodriguez@unil.ch. Welcome back Alia.
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We are also glad to count on the help of new student-assistants: Ms Milica Krmar (group Keller), Mr Sacha Levivier (group Pannell) and Mr Simon Vogel (group Keller). Welcome to them too.
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EXTERNAL SEMINARS
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The next DEE External Seminars will be the opportunity to hear Dr Lucy Aplin from the
Max Plank Institute (May 8th, hosted by Prof. Erica van de Waal). To check other coming DEE external seminars, you can visit the DEE Seminar agenda. We also remind that the DEE is testing a new "Pizza lunch" between PhD Students, Postdoctoral fellows and the invited speaker in order to facilitate interactions. The details about the organization are available on the DEE Intranet (Visit the Seminars section).
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The 2019 Behavior, Economics, and Evolution (BEE) Lecture Series, co-organized by HEC and FBM, continues. The next lectures will be on May 9th and 16th and will be the opportunity to hear Prof. Christian Thöni and Prof. Coren Lee Apicella. You can see the program here.
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The 2019 edition of the Mystères de l'UNIL will be held on May 23-24 for the Vaudoises Schools and on May 25-26 for the general public. Flies, ants, wolf, monkeys and much more will be in the spotlight. You can find more information here.
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On April 27th, the OPERATION FOURMIS project, jointly coordinated by the University of Lausanne, the Museum of Zoology and the Vaudoise Society for Natural Sciences (SVSN) was launched in Lausanne. It was definitely a success with more than 200 participants. You can see a video with Prof. Tanja Schwander and Dr Anne Freitag published on 24 heures and La Liberté websites. You can also visit the website of the Opération fourmis and read the Uniscope article about it.
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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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The Embassy of Switzerland in Jordania published pictures of the work done there with barn owl by our colleague Steve Zurkinden under the supervision of Prof. Alexandre Roulin in the frame of the Owls for peace project. This visit was made possible with the support of the Swiss Confederation.
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The Keller and Kawecki groups published an article in PNAS showing that sexual conflicts drives male manipulation of female postmating responses in Drosophila melanogaster. Dr Brian Hollis (former Posdtoc at the DEE and first author) as well as Dr Berra Erkosar Combe and Eleonore Genzoni contributed to this article. You can also see some media coverage about this publication, for instance on RTS-CQFD and in LeMatin.ch.
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Working with the international 1KITE – 1’000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution – project, the Waterhouse Group published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution a large-scale phylogenomics study of the beetle superfamily, Dytiscoidea. As well as resolving disputed relationships, the study evaluated phylogenetic conflict and systematic error and investigated in detail potential sources of bias in the data and analysis approaches.
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