The first postgraduate evolutionary biology and ecology course in Montpellier was launched in 1978 under the leadership of Louis Thaler (founding ISEM member). Since then, through the activity of its numerous lecturers and professors and strongly supported by researchers, ISEM has been substantially involved in higher education at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels, mainly within the University of Montpellier and the Université Paris Sciences Lettres to which the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) is affiliated. In the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Montpellier, ISEM members participate in conducting and coordinating courses within the Department of Biology and Ecology, the Department of Earth, Water and Environmental Science, the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Biology and Living Mechanisms. At EPHE, ISEM members participate in conducting and coordinating biology and earth science courses.
The streams in which ISEM members have academic responsibilities and which may lead to research and teaching in ISEM’s key research areas are outlined below, for LMD5 (2021-2026 accreditation).
University of Montpellier
Bachelor’s degree in Biology
Contact persons at ISEM :
Pierrick Labbé
(Head of the Biology-Ecology stream and 1st-year programme, deputy director of the teaching department “Biology-Ecology”)
Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud and Vincent Girard
(Head of 3rd-year programme)
Christophe Petit
(Head of 2nd-year programme)
Nelly Godefroy
(Deputy director of the teaching department “Biology and living mechanisms”)
University of Montpellier
Bachelor’s degree in Earth Science
Contact person at ISEM :
Pierre-Olivier Antoine
University of Montpellier
Bachelor’s degree in Studies and Development of Natural Areas (EDEN)
University of Montpellier
Master’s degree in Biodiversity-Ecology-Evolution (B2E)
Contact persons at ISEM :
Emmanuel Douzery (Head of the B2E Master and 2nd-year DARWIN)
Guillaume Guinot (Co-head Paleontology)
Mathieu Sicard (Co-head B2I, co-head of the graduate programme SFRI-IDIL)
Jean-Frédéric Terral (head of CEPAGE), Vincent Girard et Jérôme Ros (heads of 1st-year CEPAGE), Ilhem Bentaleb et Jean-Frédéric Terral (heads of 2nd-year CEPAGE)
Vincent Girard and Christophe Petit (Heads MédiACCES)
Céline Devaux and Frédérique Viard (Co-heads MEME)
Adam Ali (co-head AEE)
University of Montpellier
Master’s degree in Bioinformatics
Contact persons at ISEM :
Sèverine Bérard (Head of the Master in Bioinformatics)
Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier and Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (BILL project)
EPHE
Master’s degree in Biology, Health and Ecology
Contact persons at ISEM :
Christelle Hély and Laurent Bremond
EPHE
EPHE Diploma in Life and Earth Sciences
Contact person at ISEM :
Laurent Bremond
EPHE
Graduate Program in Earth Science and Biodiversity
Contact person at ISEM :
Laurent Bremond
University of Montpellier
Doctoral school GAIA
Contact person at ISEM :
Marie Charpentier (EERGP representative)
University of Montpellier
Doctoral school I2S
Contact person at ISEM :
Sèverine Bérard
University of Montpellier
Doctoral school CBS2
Contact person at ISEM :
Camille Martinand-Mari
EPHE
Doctoral school SIEB
Contact person at ISEM :
Laurent Bremond