The field school Ecotrop has a component field workshop named Genbarque. A training period has been organised by Nicolas Pollet and Alain-Didier Missoup with the support of Philippe Le Gall at Douala University. Students were local participants and learned environmental genomics to study biodiversity. A video was made by Joseph Fumtim: https://youtu.be/LQQIFL_0BCY.

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