Mathilde and Frédéric attended the Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology ( ESEB 2025 ) in Barcelona (Spain). Mathilde presented a talk on species delimitation and phylogenomics of living xenarthrans and a poster on using museomics for delimiting species in the nine-banded armadillo species complex. Frédéric presented a talk on the role of parallel gene losses underlying convergent evolution of the oral apparatus in ant-eating mammals based on results obta

Mathilde and Fred visited Lionel for a week during his sabbatical at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) to sample the impressive xenarthran collection under the auspices of curator Roberto Portela Miguez. The museum skin samples will be used in ongoing genome-wide species delimitation studies in armadillos, anteaters, and sloths. #NHMUK #Morphology #Genomics #Museomics #Collections #Museum #Armadillos #Anteaters #Sloths

After being part of the local organizing committee of the 2nd Joint Congress in Evolutionary Biology organized in Montpellier in 2018,...

Mathilde, Benoit and Frédéric attended the annual ALPHY Meeting on Evolutionary Genomics, Bioinformatics, Alignment and Phylogeny ...

Despite a first year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, Sophie Teullet successfully defended her PhD...

Sophie's main PhD paper on metagenomics of the gut microbiota in convergent myrmecophagous mammal species has been published in mSystems ...

Frédéric and Marie-Ka, together with Bérénice Lafon, spent 15 days in French Guiana at the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne with long-term...

Chris' work on the evolution and loss of function of dental genes across the xenarthran radiation has been published in Peer Community...

Sophie and Frédéric attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2023) held as a multi-site urban...

As a member of the recently created European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), Frédéric participated to the second paper of the consortium...

Mathilde presented her poster on species delimitation in the nine-banded armadillo species complex at the Speciation Research Gordon...

As the last step in her oral presentation marathon, Sophie had the opportunity to present her work on long-read metagenomics and...

As a member of the recently created European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), Frédéric participated to the first paper of the consortium...

Chris' study on the molecular evolution and loss of function of the genes involved in the melatonin pathway in vertebrates has been...

Frédéric visited the Parc Zoologique de Montpellier to collect blood from their two hosted six-banded armadillos (Euphractus sexcinctus)...

Despite a last year largely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, Rémi Allio managed to successfully defended his...

We are pleased to welcome Victor Luxey and Timothée Kastylevky as new Master students in the ConvergeAnt project for the next six...

Mathilde attended the 4th edition of the Speciation Genomics course organized by Physalia. This one-week online course run by run by Dr....

Frédéric was invited to present the recent advances made on sequencing xenarthran genomes in the ConvergeAnt project at the 1st Xenarthra...

We are pleased to welcome back Sophie Teullet and Mathilde Barthe both starting their PhD within the ConvergeAnt project for the next...