Baptiste Piqueret and Jean-Christophe Sandoz took part in the work on detection of tumour cells in mice by ants. This work was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1962.

Monday, the 30 of January, conferences on pollinisation.

Following his work published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and quoted in INEE‘s news, Fabrice Requier was interviewed by a France Culture journalist; To listen to the podcast.

For the celebration of L. Pasteur’s birth , the Académie des sciences publish several articles about his work.  Y. Carton (EGCE) wrote “Louis Pasteur face à la maladie du ver à SOIE (1865-1870) : du chimiste au biologiste”. It is about the time L. Pasteur consecrated to the study of a desease of the silk worm.

 More details:  https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/chimie/item/10.5802/crchim.204.pdf

Fabrice Requier and collaborators published in Trend in Ecology and Evolution an article highlighting the essential role of non-bees pollinators, too often neglected in studies on pollination, in particular for locally important crops. They also studied nocturnal pollination that occurs when bees are back in the hive and is thus performed by non-bees pollinators. To read the article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.10.006.

This article was taken up by CNRS INEE: https://www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/des-pollinisateurs-cles-pour-lagriculture-mais-tres-largement-negliges.