PhD position on honey bee research available at INRA Deciphering the mechanisms of honey bee resistance to the parasite Varroa destructor Context and project description In eusocial insects such as the honey bee, Apis mellifera, the tight cooperation of individuals that live in close contact as well as food and chemical communication signals that are […]
Nest building in social insects (ants and/or termites). This is a fully funded PhD opportunity for UK or EU nationals who have or will achieve a Master’s degree by the 1st October 2019. The successful applicant will join the Centre for Research in Ecology Evolution and Behaviour of the University of Roehampton (London, UK) and […]
L’Institut Francilien d’Ethologie organise une université d’été « International Student Course in Behavioural Biology » les 19 et 20 septembre 2019, sur le campus de l’Université Paris 13 à Villetaneuse. Cet événement est dédié à la formation des étudiants de Master et des doctorants en biologie du comportement. Voir ci-dessous pour les détails : http://ife.univ-paris13.fr/images/Documents/studentcourse_sept2019_paris13.pdf Nous serons […]
NEXT EUROPEAN IUSSI CONGRESS: TOULOUSE 2020 Dear colleagues and friends, The next European meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (EU-IUSSI) will be held in Toulouse, France, on 24-26 Aug 2020 at the University Paul Sabatier. We hope to fill this conference with many great talks and posters, and […]
A PhD course in « Social Evolution » will be held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, from 4-8 November 2019. This PhD course will introduce the key concepts in social evolution and the use of social insects as a model system to understand the evolution of sociality. The following topics will be covered by […]