Chères et chers collègues, C’est avec une grande tristesse que nous avons appris ce 1er septembre 2020 le décès de notre collègue et ami. Christian était connu de tous comme un chercheur passionné par les fourmis, qu’il a étudiées tout au long de sa carrière, transmettant sa passion à de nombreux étudiants et […]
Bees & Environment, INRAE Avignon, France In a rapidly changing environment, honeybee colonies are increasingly exposed to diverse sources of stress, which represent a challenge to their social homeostasis and can ultimately lead to their collapse. A multifactorial aetiology has often been reported (e.g. new parasites, decline in flower availability/diversity and exposure to agrochemicals acting […]
Sexual signals in hermaphroditic worms and their evolution during the transition between hermaphroditism and separate sexes Application deadline: May 31st 2020 Sexual selection is a central topic in behavioral ecology and is usually associated with male and female reproductive success. Communication between the two sexes is crucial at the moment of reproduction; a huge […]
NSF-BSF funded positions for a Ph.D. student and a postdoc are available in the Privman lab at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel. The lab studies evolutionary genomics of social behavior in ants, employing tools from population genomics, genomic mapping, and phylogenomics. Ongoing research includes several projects combining population sampling, behavioral experiments, chemical analysis […]
Your Tasks You will work as an Early Stage Reseacher in the following research groups: the Neurobiology Lab, Bielefeld (Prof. Martin Egelhaaf) the Behavioural and Cognitive Ecology Lab, Toulouse (Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau) The tasks are performed both at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and in the cooperation laboratory in Toulouse (France). Project description: How […]