P. le Gall’s (DEEIT) name appears in a film on edible insects around the world and in particular in Cameroun. The project is about Rhynchophorus phoenicis, or african palm weevil.

IDEEV PhD students invite four scientists to deliver a talk in the domain of genetics, evolution and ecology. It will take place in the I2BC auditorium, Building 21, CNRS, Campus de Gif-sur-Yvette.

Please note these seminars from 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm:

– Wednesday June 26: Laurent Keller (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)

– Friday August 30: Harmit Malik (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA)

– Monday September 30: Marie Manceau (Collège de France, Paris, France)

– Tuesday October 22: Thomas Flatt (Université de Fribourg, Suisse)

It will be followed by an “Apéro” in the EGCE library (Building 13).

Jean-Christophe Sandoz’s team (Evolbee) work was published in Current Biology. A new social learning was demonstrated in honey bees. A mere social contact without food exchange allows worker bees to describe other worker bees the source of food. This article was distinguished for a dispatch in Current Biology and a breve de l’INEE.

To read the article: Social Contact Acts as Appetitive Reinforcement and Supports Associative Learning in Honeybees. Cholé H, Carcaud J, Mazeau H, Famié S, Arnold G, Sandoz JC. Curr Biol. 2019 Apr 8. pii: S0960-9822(19)30323-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.025.  PMID:   30982650

Gérard Arnold (Evolbee) wrote an article in the newspaper le Monde 02/06/2019 edition to stress the significance of the new rules for the evaluation of the toxicity of pesticides for bees.