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Info DEE # 11 - November 2019
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Ms Julie Guenat, joined the team of the animal house for one month. You can contact Julie andWelcome back Julie. Julie.Guenat@unil.ch
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Ms Aijuan Liao joined the group of Prof. Tadeusz Kawecki as PhD Student. Aijuan is located in office 2107, phone 42.23. Aijuan.Liao@unil.ch
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Dr Lucie Malard joined the group of Prof. Antoine Guisan as Postdoctoral fellow. Lucie is located in office 4301, phone 42.68. Lucie.Malard@unil.ch
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Ms Giulia Perroud, joined the group of Prof. Claus Wedekind as PhD Student. Giulia is located in office 3222, phone 42.48. Giulia.Perroud@unil.ch. Welcome back Giulia.
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Dr Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, a SIB Bioinformatician, joined the group of Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi, SIB group Leader. Tarcisio is located in office 3214, phone 42.04. Tarcisio.MendesdeFarias@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of new student-assistants: Ms Anouck Brodard (group Pannell), Mr Lenny Jantscher (group Pannell). Welcome (or welcome back) to them too.
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EXTERNAL SEMINARS
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On Wednesday Nov. 13th, Prof. Erica van de Waal will present her research through a seminar entitled Lab cognition going wild: field experiments on vervet monkeys. On Nov. 20th, Prof. John MacKay from the University of Oxford and hosted by Prof. John Pannell, will present the Genetics of pest resistance in Canadian conifer forests. On Nov. 27th, you will have the opportunity to hear Dr Sinead English, hosted by Dr Ornela de Gasperin (group Chapuisat). To know more about the next seminars, please visit the DEE Seminar agenda. We remind that you can find on our Intranet (DEE day to day life > Seminars) the guidelines for hosting external seminar speakers and for organizing the pizza lunch.
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"The secret wars of ants: sex, murder and
territorial invasions". This book, written by Prof. Cleo Bertelsmeier and published at the end of October by Éditions Favre, proposes to discover ants' societies, the struggles that animate them and the subtle deceptions and manipulations that inhabit them. Organized, disciplined, dedicated... all terms that are frequently used to describe ants. No wonder thinkers, philosophers and scientists on all sides have taken ants as perfect examples of the society they envisioned. But there is a fundamental point that we all seem to ignore: ant societies are not harmonious!
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Congratulations to Prof. Alexandre Roulin who, after seven years as President of the SSF was appointed on October 1st 2019 as vice-Dean associate by the FBM. He will be in charge of the operational organization of research within the faculty. You can see the UNIL communication here.
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Ms Tamara Szentivanyi, PhD Student, Prof. Philippe Christe and Dr Olivier Glaizot, published together a review in Frontiers in Veterinary Science. This review synthetizes information on a multi-level parasitic system: bats, bat flies and their microparasites. Bat flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) are obligate, hematophagous ectoparasites of bats consisting of ~500 described species. Diverse parasitic organisms have been detected in bat flies including bacteria, blood parasites, fungi, and viruses, which suggest their vectorial potential. We discuss the ecological epidemiology of microparasites, their potential physiological effects on both bats and bat flies, and potential research perspectives in the domain of bat pathogens.
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Dr Romain Pigeault (Postdoctoral fellow), Ms Camille Sophie Cozzarolo (PhD Student), Dr Olivier Glaizot and Prof. Philippe Christe, published an article in the Internation Journal of avian science.
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Several factors shape lifetime reproductive success, including genetic background, body condition, environmental conditions and ecological interactions such as parasitism. Adults often show higher reproductive success than their young conspecifics, especially in long‐lived bird species, and this may be explained by the cumulative effects of an increase in reproductive experience and the selection of high‐quality individuals from one year to the next. To test whether this pattern also exists in short‐lived bird species, we used 13 years of monitoring data from two Great Tit Parus major populations.
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Former postdoc Dr Camille Roux from the Pannell lab has published a paper in the New Physiologist extending the concept of Haldane’s Sieve (favouring dominant over recessive mutations) to the context of migration in metapopulations.
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The new DEE coffee machine is now operational at the cafeteria. Please be aware that we pay it through our coffee consumption and therefore we hope you will all be careful as if it was yours, since it is yours in the end. We thank all the colleagues who contributed to the acquisition and who will contribute to the weekly maintenance.
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The intranet was updated with new important information: DEE Facilities and how to get the authorization to work in our labs; DEE durability policy and the Code of practice for doctorate. Visit the Intranet to know more.
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