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Corrigenda Info DEE # 9 - September 2019
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES
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Ms Estelle Mayor joined the group of Prof. Alexandre Roulin as PhD Student. Estelle is located in room 3212.1, phone 41.18. Estelle.Mayor@unil.ch
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Ms Ramona-Elena Irimia joined the group of Prof. Ian Sanders as Invited researcher in the frame of her PhD studies at the University of Coimbra. Ramona-Elena is located in room 4318.1, phone 42.77. Ramona-Elena.Irimia@unil.ch
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Ms Sakshi Sharda joined the group of Prof. Tadeusz Kawecki as Invited researcher in the frame of her PhD studies at EPFL. Sakshi is located in office 2107, phone 42.23. Sakshi.Sharda@unil.ch
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Dr Nora Villamil Buenrostro joined the groupe of Prof. John Pannell as postdoctoral fellow. Nora is located in room 4319, phone 42.47. Nora.VillamilBuenrostro@unil.ch
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Mr Adriano Wanderlingh joined the group of Prof. Laurent Keller as Invited researcher in the frame of his PhD studies at the University of Bristol. Adriano is located in room 3104, phone 41.81. Adriano.Wanderlingh@unil.ch
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We are also glad to count on the help of a new student-assistants: Ms Charlotte Rizzo (group Kawecki).
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The next DEE External Seminar will be held on September 25th and will be the opportunity to hear Dr Mirko Djordjevic from the University of Belgrade hosted by one of our PhD student, Jelisaveta Djordjevic (not related). To check the DEE external seminars Fall season, see the DEE Seminar agenda.
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We also remind or inform those who don't know yet that a Pizza lunch meeting will be organized for a few PhD Students and Postdocs to discuss directly with the Speaker. Jelisaveta will send a doodle in due time. The details about the organization are available on the DEE Intranet (Visit the Seminars section).
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Dr Yuko Ulrich has just obtained the prestigious and highly competitive ERC Starting fellowship. This means that Yuko will become assistant Professor and remain in the DEE for an other 5 years, where she will be able to further build up her group working on Experimental Epidemiology in Ants Societies. Not only will Yuko be an ERC fellow and assistant Professor, but she has additionally obtained a second competitive grant the "Bourse Pro-Femmes"which is especially for the support of young female scientists. Congratulations to Yuko for this double success and we look forward to having Yuko's group in the DEE for the coming years.
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Congratulations to Jelisaveta Djordjevic (group Schwander) who is about to receive the Professor Henri-A. Guénin Prize for her master work. The prize will be awarded during the UNIL 2019 Awards Ceremony on September 19th.
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Congratulations to Dr Daniel Jeffries (group Perrin / Pannell) who is about to receive the FBM-ESEB prize for Evolutionary Biology for his contribution to the study of the evolution of sex chromosomes. The prize will be awarded during the UNIL 2019 Awards Ceremony on September 19th.
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Former (Dr Luis M. San Jose, Charlène Gémard) and current members (Robin Séchaud, Kim Schalcher, Dr Paul Béziers) of the group of Prof. Alexandre Roulin, published an article in Nature Ecology and Evolution entitled "Differential fitness effects of moonlight on plumage colour morphs in barn owls".
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Figure: Colour variation in barn owls, © Isabelle Henry.
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As part of the international tsetse fly genomics consortium, the Waterhouse Group published their comparative analyses of six Glossina genomes, vectors of African trypanosomes, in the journal Genome Biology. And with the Johnson Group from the University of Illinois they published in the journal Diversity their analysis of the cryptic species complex of Bemisia whiteflies, small Hemipterans that are important agricultural pests.
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