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Sérgio attended a course on morphological integration and modularity in Sabadell (Spain)
Sérgio just returned from a one-week course on Integration and Modularity with Geometric Morphometrics organized by Transmitting Science...
Frederic Delsuc
Jun 25, 20181 min read


Study on the evolution of chitinase genes in placental mammals published in Science Advances
Our study on the evolution of chitinase genes and pseudogenes in placental mammal genomes is published in Science Advances...
Frederic Delsuc
May 16, 20181 min read


Sérgio, Lionel, and Frédéric visited the Natural History Museum London
Sérgio, Frédéric, and Lionel spent a week working in the amazing mammal collections of the British Natural History Museum (BMNH) in...
Frederic Delsuc
May 7, 20181 min read


Congratulations Mark!
Mark Wright successfully defended his six-month Master project from the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology. His...
Frederic Delsuc
Feb 16, 20181 min read


Rémi returned from the WGS Assembly and Annotation Winter School 2018
Rémi just returned from a week long stay in Ascona (Switzerland) to attend the WGS Assembly and Annotation Winter School 2018. He is...
Frederic Delsuc
Feb 12, 20181 min read


The Minion arrived!
We just received our Minion pocket sequencer from Oxford Nanopore. Marie-Ka is currently testing its capacity to produce long DNA reads...
Frederic Delsuc
Feb 1, 20181 min read


New X-Ray microtomograph offers enhanced CT-scan possibilities
The Montpellier Ressources Imagerie platform (MRI) recently acquired a new ex-vivo X-ray microtomograph (EasyTom 150). This new facility...
Frederic Delsuc
Jan 17, 20181 min read


Sérgio is back from US trip visiting museums in New York and Washington DC
Sérgio spent a month and a half in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York and the National Museum...
Frederic Delsuc
Dec 8, 20171 min read


New publication on mammalian gut microbiomes on the cover of Integrative and Comparative Biology
Our paper on the effect of captivity on the composition of mammalian gut microbiomes led by Valerie McKenzie has been published in...
Frederic Delsuc
Oct 14, 20171 min read


Fieldwork in French Guiana
Frédéric and Marie-Ka attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French...
Frederic Delsuc
Oct 9, 20171 min read


Lionel talk at the 17th International Symposium on Dental Morphology (ISDM)
Lionel gave a talk presenting a developmental perspective on the evolution of the dentition of “toothless mammals” at ISDM-IAPO-2017:...
Frederic Delsuc
Oct 7, 20171 min read


Welcome to Rémi Allio!
Rémi Allio joined the ConvergeAnt project as a PhD student following from his Master degree at the University of Montpellier. Rémi's PhD...
Frederic Delsuc
Oct 1, 20171 min read


Welcome to Chris Emerling!
Chris Emerling from the Nachman Lab at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley (USA) started his post-doc within the ConvergeAnt...
Frederic Delsuc
Sep 2, 20171 min read


Welcome to Mark Wright!
Mark Wright just joined the ConvergeAnt project for the next semester. Mark is a Master student from the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme...
Frederic Delsuc
Sep 1, 20171 min read


Genome 10K and Genome Science Conference in Norwich (UK)
Frédéric attended the Genome 10K and Genome Science Conference held at the Earlham Institute on the University of East Anglia campus in...
Frederic Delsuc
Aug 29, 20171 min read


Chris Emerling will join the ConvergeAnt project as a Post-Doc
Chris Emerling, currently in the Nachman Lab at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley (USA), has been awarded a post-doc...
Frederic Delsuc
Jun 14, 20171 min read


Rachid is back from a week at CNRGV Toulouse
Rachid spent a week at the Centre National de Ressources Génomiques Végétales (CNRGV) in Toulouse trying to extract DNA fragments from...
Frederic Delsuc
Jun 14, 20171 min read


Frédéric presented the ConvergeAnt project at CNRGV Toulouse
Frédéric and Rachid went to Toulouse to discuss potential collaboration on genome sequencing of ant-eating mammals at the Centre National...
Frederic Delsuc
Jun 8, 20171 min read


Sérgio is back from the Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin)
Sérgio just arrived from a 3-week long visit in the mammal and embryology collections of the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) in Berlin to...
Frederic Delsuc
May 15, 20171 min read


Welcome to Rachid Koual
Rachid just join the ConvergeAnt team as a research assistant in molecular biology. He will be managing the molecular data production for...
Frederic Delsuc
Apr 24, 20171 min read
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