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PhD student life

ISEM doctoral students are involved in the life of the Institute far beyond their thesis work! Here you will find all the news concerning them, the events they organize and a media corner where they discuss their research.

Diploma defences

26/09/23 at 9:00 am

PhD thesis defence

Marine Jeanjean
8 000 years of bioarchaeological history of three domestic species: sheep, goat and pig, in the Northwestern mediterranean basin

Diploma defences

10/07/2023 at 1:30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Sergio Xavier
Responses of Cerrado vegetation to climate change and human impacts in north-eastern Brazil during the recent Holocene

Seminars and conferences

12/06/2023 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Nicolas Hubert |Fish evolution team |Genφ dept.
Results of Ichtyological exploration of the Rio Araza (Madre de Dios) using DNA and eDNA barcode approaches in the context of a dam project

An article by Mary Robles |Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecology of Disturbances, Paleoclimates team |Past dept.
Climate changes during the Late Glacial in southern Europe: new insights based on pollen and brGDGTs of Lake Matese in Italy, Climate of the Past (doi)

Diploma defences

30/05/2023 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Nathan Mazet
the effects of environmental factors and biotic interactions on the diversification of neotropical groups

Seminars and conferences

22/05/2023 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Corentin Bochaton |Macroevolution and Development team |Genφ dept.
A fresh but interesting paleoecology? Serendipity, cat droppings, bats, and pathogens on the islet Chancel (Martinique)

An article by Jessica Teodoro Paulo |Experimental Evolution of Communities team |Change dept.
Intraspecific variation for host immune activation in the spider mite Tetranychus evansi

Diploma defences

08/05/2023 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Narla Stutz
Paleogene and Neogene metatherians from western Amazonia; systematics and evolutionary history

Seminars and conferences

15/05/2023 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Allown Evin |Dynamics of biodiversity, anthropoecology team |Past dept.
Between dog and wolf: emergence and morphological evolution

An article by Estelle Barbot |Evolution and demography team |Change dept.
On the function of flower number: disentangling fertility from pollinator-mediated selection

 

Articles

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an article by Eliette Reboud (PEM)
Genomics, population divergence and historical demography of the world’s largest and endangered butterfly, the Queen Alexandra’s birdwing
GBE, March 2023

Seminars and conferences

03/04/2023 at 11:30 am

Monday seminar

A seminar by Jean-Christophe Avarre |équipe Aquaculture, Biodiversité, Santé (AQUABIOS) |BioSS dept.
Négliger les minorités est souvent risqué, même chez les virus

An article by Eliette Reboud |Phylogeny and molecular evolution team |Genφ dept.
Genomics, population divergence and historical demography of the world’s largest and endangered butterfly, the Queen Alexandra’s birdwing (doi)


Diploma defences

27/03/2023 at 1 pm

PhD thesis defence

Axelle Delaunay
Sibling competition in two social primate species, chacma baboons and mandrills

 

Seminars and conferences

27/03/2023 à 11h30

Webinaire du Lundi

Speech by Ophélie Ronce for the Equality group (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity)

An article by Killian Gernelle |Palaeontology team |Change dept.
New material of Parabrachyodus hyopotamoides from Samane Nala, Bugti Hills (Pakistan) and the origin of Merycopotamini (Mammalia: Hippopotamoidea)

Diploma defences

10/03/2023 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Alice Namias
Evolution of cytoplasmic incompatibility mechanisms in Wolbachia infecting the mosquito Culex pipiens

Seminars and conferences

06/03/2023 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Marie Raynaud |Marine Biodiversity and Evolution team |Genφ dept.
Population genomics reveal PRDM9-dependant recombination landscapes in Salmonids

An article by Abdel Aouacheria |Evolution, vectors, adaptations, symbiosis team |BioSS dept
Evidence for existence of an apoptosis-inducing BH3-only protein, sayonara, in Drosophila (doi)

Articles

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Sergio Xavier (DEEP)
Changes in fire activity and biodiversity in a Northeast Brazilian Cerrado over the last 800 years”. Anthropocene, 40
Anthropocene, Volume 40, Dec 2022

Diploma defences

26/01/2023 at 2:30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Alexandre Assemat
Trophism in marine vertebrate fossils

Diploma defences

16/12/2022 at 1:30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Nagham Tabaja
Monumental olive trees of Lebanon: drought history, pollution traceability and lessons for the future

Articles

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an article by Mathieu Pélissié (BioDICée)
Pushed northward by climate change: range shifts and co-occurrence reshuffling for Northern European Odonates

Diploma defences

21/11/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Claire Jacquet |Biodiversity: dynamics, interactions and conservation team |Change dept.
What are the effects of extreme events on the biodiversity and biomass of communities?

An article by Mathieu Pélissié |Biodiversity: dynamics, interactions and conservation team |Change dept.
Pushed northward by climate change: range shifts and co-occurrence reshuffling for Northern European Odonates (doi)

Diploma defences

18/11/2022 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Nicolas Leurs
Evolutionary origin of biomineralization in vertebrates

Diploma defences

15/11/2022 at 1 pm

PhD thesis defence

Sarthak Malusare
Evolutionary effects on temperature niches and experimental Range expansions

Diploma defences

30/11/2022 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Louise Heitzmann
Sex chromosomes impact on brain sexual differentiation: insight from a wild mouse species with naturally occurring sex reversal

Seminars and conferences

17/10/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Jhelam Deshpande |Experimental Evolution of Communities team |Change dept.
Genetic architecture of dispersal and local adaptation drives accelerating range expansions

An article by Pierrick Labbé |Evolution, vectors, adaptations, symbiosis team |BioSS dept
No association between habitat, autogeny and genetics in Moroccan Culex pipiens populations

Seminars and conferences

10/10/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Betty Gimenez |Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecology of Disturbances, Paleoclimates team | Dept. Past
Automatic detection and classification of pollen grains

An article by Nicolas Hubert |Fish evolution team | Dept. Genφ
Large-scale DNA barcoding of the subfamily Culterinae (Cypriniformes: Xenocyprididae) in East Asia unveils a geographical scale effect, taxonomic warnings and cryptic diversity (doi)

Diploma defences

30/09/2022 at 9:00 am

PhD thesis defence

Nikos Smit
Social and reproductive conflicts between the sexes in mandrills

Diploma defences

20/09/2022 at 2:30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Camille Saade

Dynamics and stability of spatially structured ecosystems

Diploma defences

12/07/2022 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Mary Robles
Vegetation, climate, and human history of the Mediterranean basin: A Lateglacial to Holocene reconstruction from Italy (Lake Matese) to Armenia (Lake Sevan) inferred from a multi-proxy approach (pollen, NPPs, brGDGTs, XRF)

Seminars and conferences

27/06/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Marion Lacand |Extreme Environments team |Past department
Regional fire history of northern Finnish Lapland along an altitudinal gradient

An article by Michel Raymond |Evolutionary anthropology team |BioSS Department
Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis (doi)

Diploma defences

30/06/2022 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Romain Weppe
Decline of endemic European artiodactyls, autopsy of an extinction

13/06/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

Projection of a 35 min report by Clément Aubert |Evolution, vectors, adaptations, symbiosis team |BioSS department
“A discreet sentinel” Filmed in Peru with local communities in view of developing conservation concessions in the Amazon that are managed by village groups
An article by Ndiaye Ada |Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecology of Disturbances, Paleoclimates team |Past department
Holocene evolution of a Guinean-type vegetation in the Sahelian band: example of the Niayes of Senegal

Seminars and conferences

30/05/2022 at 11h30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Marine JeanJean |Dynamics of biodiversity, anthropoecology team |Past department
Archaeozoology and Biometric Data: A Study of the Domestic Triad through a Critical Approach to the Log Size Index

An article by Nelly Godefroy |Marine Biodiversity and Evolution team |Genφ department
Molecular complexity and gene expression controlling cell turnover during a digestive cycle of carnivorous sponge Lycopodina hypogea.

Seminars and conferences

23/05/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Camille Martinand-Mari |Macroevolution and Development team |Genφ department
Endocrine disruptors and skeletal development in marine fish

An article by Camille Saade |Experimental Evolution of Communities team |Change department
Scaling up our understanding of tipping points

Seminars and conferences

16/05/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday webinar

A seminar by Jean-Loup Claret |Evolution, vectors, adaptations, symbiosis team |BioSS department
Insecticide resistance: structural variation and adaptive convergence

Diploma defences

11/05/2022 at 9 am

PhD thesis defence

Adrien Tran Lu
Comparative phylogeography of western Pacific hydrothermal species in the age of population genomics

Diploma defences

29/04/2022 at 1:30 pm

PhD thesis defence


Pierre Barry
Role of genomic constraints and life-history traits in speciation: a comparative genomic approach

Seminars and conferences

04/04/2022 at 11:30

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Louise Heitzmann |Sex and Speciation team |Genφ department
A third sex in the African dwarf mouse? Behaviour and brain of X*Y females

An article by Julien Claude |Macroevolution and Development team |Genφ department
Does colour impact responses to images in geckos

Articles

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This article is dedicated to the memory of François Catzeflis, who passed away on November 25, 2021.
About inter- and intra-specific variability of dental microwear texture in rodents: Study of two sympatric Proechimys (Echimyidae) species from the Cacao locality, French Guiana
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Avril 2022

 

Events

June 21-23, 2022

VIth mouse Symposium at Montpellier

will take place in Montpellier, France, on the 21-23 June 202.

Seminars and conferences

17/01/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Nicolas Hubert |Fish evolution team |Genφ Department
Code-barres ADN et biogéographie des poissons du plateau de la Sonde

An article by Mary Robles |Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecology of Disturbances, Paleoclimates team |Past department
Impact of climate changes on vegetation and human societies during the Holocene in the South Caucasus (Vanevan, Armenia): a multiproxy approach including pollen, NPPs and brGDGTs

Seminars and conferences

10/01/2022 at 11:30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Flora Gouzerh |Sex & speciation team |Genφ department
Detection and preference of mice for smells of cancerous congeners

An article by Rachid Cheddadi |Extreme Environments team |Past department
Le Sahara vert et sa persistance durant l’Holocène

Diploma defences, Events

13/12/2021 at 9h45 am

PhD thesis defence

Arthur Weyna
Evolution and prevalence of social hybridogenesis in ants

Diploma defences

15/12/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Amira Azizan
A Genetic Tale of Cats: understanding the past and present of carnivoran populations through comparative studies

Diploma defences

10/12/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Yasmine Mansour
Investigating the impact of DNA repeats on genome dynamics: Towards a focus on mosquito genomes

10/12/2021 at 11h am

PhD thesis defence

Jacob Maugoust
Evolution of endocranial structures in bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera), insights from fossil taxa

Diploma defences

10/12/2021 at 1:30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Maurine Hammel
Biology, ecology and evolution of the MtrBTN2 transmissible cancer of Mytilus sp. Mussels

Diploma defences

25/11/2021 at 1h30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Claire Godineau
Theoretical study of evolutionary responses to climate change: effects of assortative mating  and fluctuations in selection intensity

Seminars and conferences

22/11/2021 at 11h30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Nicolas Leurs | Macroevolution and Development team |Genφ department

Mais qui est ce gène mystère ?

An article by Fabrice Lihoreau | Palaeontology team |Change department
A fossil terrestrial fauna from Tobène (Senegal) provides a unique early Pliocene window in western Africa (doi) 


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an article by Clément Aubert ‘EVAS’
Evaluation of the use of drones to monitor a diverse crocodylian assemblage in West Africa
Wildlife Research, Oct. 2020

Diploma defences

19/11/2021 at 9h30 am

PhD thesis defence

Stanislas Rigal
Everything is connected: complex responses of biodiversity to global change and socio-economic determinants

Seminars and conferences

15/11/2021 at 11h30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Alison Duncan | Experimental Evolution of Communities team |Change 
department
How plant functional trait can improve paleovegetation reconstructions? A study case from Arid Central Asian pollen-based biomizatio

An article by Clément Aubert | Evolution, vectors, adaptations, symbiosis team |BioSS department
Evaluation of the use of drones to monitor a diverse crocodylian assemblage in West Africa (doi)

Seminars and conferences

08/11/21 at 11h30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Lucas Dugerdil |Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecology of Disturbances, Paleoclimates team |Past  department 
How plant functional trait can improve paleovegetation reconstructions ? A study case from Arid Central Asian pollen-based biomization

An article by Jean-François Agnèse |Fish evolution team |Genφ department
The discovery of Coptodon guineensis (Günther, 1862) (Perciformes, Cichlidae) in the Moulay Bousselham lagoon extends the species’ range 1000 km northward in Morocco (doi)

Diploma defences

30/09/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Manon Hullot
Dental microwear texture analyses and enamel hypoplasias in extant and fossil Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla): palebiologic and paleoecologic inferences

Diploma defences

07/07/2021 at 14:30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Marine Durocher
Biological and cultural histories of two emblematic rodents of the Lesser Antilles: bioarchaeological approaches

Diploma defences

30/06/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Cécile Triay
Genetic basis of sex determination In wild populations of Nile tilapia

09/06/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Dorian Gaboriau
Holocene, contemporary and future fire regimes in the Northwest Territories (Canada)

Events

31/05-04/06/2021 each day from 1 to 2:45 pm

Doctoral Students Week 2021

Each day from 1 to 2:45 pm and in each session, find presentations of current research and 2 or 3 presentations of researchers trained in our walls.
Thanks to a virtual round table proposed on Friday (“Being a PhD student at ISEM: and then?” || 2:45-4:30 pm)

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an article by Felix Moerman (EEC)
Gene swamping alters evolution during range expansions in the protist Tetrahymena thermophila
Biology Letters, June 2020

Seminars and conferences

17/05/2021 at 11h30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Amira Azizan |Macroevolution and Development team |Genφ department
Les déterminants de la diversité génétique chez les félins

An article by Felix Moerman |Experimental Evolution of Communities team |Change department
Gene swamping alters evolution during range expansions in the protist Tetrahymena thermophila (doi)
Seminar time is 1 h

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an article by Claire Godineau (EvoDemo)
Assortative mating can help adaptation of flowering time to a changing climate

Seminars and conferences

10/05/2021 at 11h30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Jérome Ros |Dynamics of biodiversity, anthropoecology team |Past department
Un demi-millénaire d’agriculture au pied du Haut-Atlas (Maroc) : approche archéobotanique et isotopique

An article by Claire Godineau | Evolution and demography team |Change department
Assortative mating can help adaptation of flowering time to a changing climate (doi)
Seminar time is 1 h

Diploma defences

29/04/2021 at 4 pm

PhD thesis defence

Quentin Martinez
Olfactory and thermoregulatory capacities in small terrestrial mammals: a turbinal bone approach

Articles

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an article by Nicola Fischer (PEM)
Population genetics as a tool to elucidate pathogen reservoirs: Lessons from Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose disease in bats

Seminars and conferences

12/04/2021 at 11h30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Emira Chérif | Fish Diversity and Aquaculture team |BioSS department
A tale of an invader: Reconstructing the genomic history of invasive topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) populations

An article by Nicola Fischer | Phylogeny and molecular evolution team |Genφ department
Population genetics as a tool to elucidate pathogen reservoirs: Lessons from Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of white-nose disease in bats (doi)
Seminar time is 1 h

 

Diploma defences

07/04/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Fidji Berio
Multiscale variation of 3D tooth forms in selachians and developmental and evolutionary inferences: Odyssey of a scyliorhinid tooth

Diploma defences

05/03/2021 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Jules Dezeure
The evolution of reproductive seasonality in large tropical terrestrial monkeys

Seminars and conferences

08/03/2021 at 11 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Pierre Barry |Marine Biodiversity and Evolution team |Genφ Department
Spéciation et traits d’histoire de vie : approche comparative chez les poissons marins

An article by Pierrick Labbe |Evolution, vectors, adaptations, symbiosis team |BioSS Department
What is(are) the most effective method(s) to control the tiger mosquito? Comparing sterile male releases and other methods in temperate and tropical climates, Harambourre et al. (doi)
Seminar time is 1 h

Diploma defences

11/02/2021 at 1 pm

PhD thesis defence

Rémi Allio
Phylogenomics and comparative genomics in myrmecophagous mammals

Articles

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an article by Camille Saade (BioDicée)
Trade-off between virulence and dispersal drives parasite evolution at experimental invasion fronts
bioRxiv, 2020

Seminars and conferences

08/02/2021 at 11.30 am

Monday Webinar

A seminar by Jules Dezeure  | Anthropologie évolutive team |BioSS Department
The evolution of reproductive seasonality in large tropical terrestrial African monkeys

An article by Camille Saade | BioDicée team |Past Department
Trade-off between virulence and dispersal drives parasite evolution at experimental invasion fronts (doi)

Seminar time is 1 h

Diploma defences

14/01/2021 at 3 pm

PhD thesis defence

Felix Moerman
Understanding Invasions – From the Genetic Basis to the Ecological Dynamics of Spreading Populations

Diploma defences

16/12/2020 at 1.30 pm

PhD thesis defence

Marion Harambourre
Modeling the natural populations dynamic of Aedes albopictus and response to vector control

Diploma defences

14/12/2020 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Arni Sholihah
Diversification of Sundaland aquatic biotas: build-up of freshwater fishes’ diversity and distribution in a biodiversity hotspot

Diploma defences

10/12/2020 at 9.30 am

PhD thesis defence

Charles Rodde
Individual feed efficiency in fishes: direct measurement methods and indirect predictors to develop selective breeding programs in two major aquaculture species: European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax and Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus

Diploma defences

04/12/2020 at 2 pm

PhD thesis defence

Maxime Courcelle
Orthologous and paralogous gene viewpoints on rodent genomics: phylogenomics and evolution of olfactory receptors

Diploma defences

24/11/2020 at 11 am

PhD thesis defence

Fabrice Houngnandan
Role of Anthropic Pressures and the Environment in the state of Posidonia Herbaria in the French Mediterranean

Events

From 21/09/20 to 25/09/20

ISEM PhD students week

The traditional “PhD students day” has evolved in 2020 into the “PhD students week” via the ISEM YouTube channel.
Watch and listen to all presentations in the “Media Resources” tab.