#Conference

Frederic Delsuc

Oct 6, 2022
1 min

Two posters presented at the 11th Oppenheimer Research Conference in Midrand

Sophie and Frédéric attended the 11th Oppenheimer Research Conference (ORC 2022) in Mirand (South Africa). Sophie presented a poster on her study of the gut microbiota of ant- and termite-eating mammals to understand convergent dietary adaptations. Frédéric's poster presented results from a shallow metagenomic approach on faecal samples for fine-scale diet characterization of myrmecophagous mammals in Tswalu Kalahari and Tussen die Riviere reserves. These studies are conducte

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Sophie presented her long-read metagenomics work at ESEB 2022 in Prague

Frederic Delsuc

Aug 16, 2022
1 min

Sophie presented her long-read metagenomics work at ESEB 2022 in Prague

As the last step in her oral presentation marathon, Sophie had the opportunity to present her work on long-read metagenomics and chitinase genes the Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB 2022) in Prague (Czech Republic). Sophie's presentation was selected as part of an exciting symposium dedicated to understanding "Microbiomes in the wild: the drivers and evolutionary consequences of microbiome variation". Teullet S.*, Tilak M.-K., Magdeleine A., Sch

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Sophie talked metagenomics at the European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology

Frederic Delsuc

May 26, 2022
1 min

Sophie talked metagenomics at the European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology

After two years of online talks, Sophie finally had the opportunity to present in-person the metagenomic part of her PhD project at the 27th European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB27) in Espoo (Finland) (https://empseb.wordpress.com/). This meeting organized for PhD students by PhD students is sponsored by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) and aims at creating links between fellow European PhD students. A wonderful opportunity for

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Frédéric presented a talk on chitinase gene family evolution at the ALPHY/AIEM meeting

Frederic Delsuc

Mar 15, 2022
1 min

Frédéric presented a talk on chitinase gene family evolution at the ALPHY/AIEM meeting

After two years of virtual meetings, Frédéric was especially delighted to attend the ALPHY/AIEM annual meeting of the evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics French community in Rennes (France). Frédéric exposed our latest results on comparative genomics and transcriptomics of salivary glands to investigate the evolution of the chitinase gene family in placentals. Our results demonstrate that divergent molecular mechanisms underlie convergent adaptation to the ant-eating die

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New publication by Sophie with members of the Animal Microbiome Research Group

Frederic Delsuc

Feb 12, 2022
1 min

New publication by Sophie with members of the Animal Microbiome Research Group

Following from her participation to the 2nd annual Animal Microbiome Research Group (AMRG) virtual meeting (https://amrg.mystrikingly.com/), Sophie, together with two other fellow early career animal microbiome researchers, participated in the publication of a meeting report in Evolutionary Anthropology. In addition to describing the latest advances in animal microbiome research presented at the meeting, the paper also exposes the actions undertaken to grow and maintain this

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Sophie talked long read metagenomics at the Animal Microbiome Research Group virtual meeting

Frederic Delsuc

Nov 10, 2021
1 min

Sophie talked long read metagenomics at the Animal Microbiome Research Group virtual meeting

Sophie Teullet presented her work on using long read metagenomics to study dietary adaptations in ant-eating mammal at the 2nd annual Animal Microbiome Research Group (AMRG) virtual meeting (https://amrg.mystrikingly.com/). The AMRG is an interdisciplinary and international community of early career scientists interested in using the microbiome as a tool to address fundamental questions in ecology and evolution and provides a research network and platform for early career res

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Two ConvergeAnt talks presented at the virtual Evolution 2021 meeting

Frederic Delsuc

Jun 25, 2021
2 min

Two ConvergeAnt talks presented at the virtual Evolution 2021 meeting

Chris and Frédéric presented talks at the Virtual Evolution 2021 meeting the annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Biologists held online because of travel restrictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Chris presented his work on the molecular erosion of tooth-related genes in the xenarthran radiation (armadillos, anteaters, and sloths) showing that independent and distinct events of d

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Frederic Delsuc

May 20, 2021
1 min

Sophie presented a plenary talk at virtual London Calling 2021

After submitting a poster abstract to present her work on ant-eating mammal microbiomes using long read metagenomics, Sophie Teullet was invited to present a plenary talk at the virtual London Calling 2021 Nanopore conference (https://londoncallingconf.co.uk/lc21). Sophie took up the challenge and her talk entitled "Long-read metagenomic sequencing of faecal samples to study convergent dietary adaptation in ant-eating mammals" can be watch on the video below. Congrats Sophie

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Frederic Delsuc

Jan 11, 2020
1 min

Talk at PAG meeting 2020

Frédéric presented our results on sequencing high quality genomes from roadkill for genome-wide species delimitation in ant-eating carnivorans at the Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, CA, USA (PAG 2020). This annual conference is the "grand messe" of genomics and it was an honor to be selected for a talk this year. Thanks to Elinor Karlsson and Ellie Armstrong for organizing the "Feline and Canine Genomics Workshop". It was also the occasion for Frédéric to vis

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Field sequencing and conference in French Guiana

Frederic Delsuc

Oct 17, 2019
1 min

Field sequencing and conference in French Guiana

Frédéric, Rémi, and Amandine attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) together with Fabien Condamine and Nathan Mazet (ISEM). Frédéric presented the results of our successful efforts to obtain genomes from mammalian roadkill specimen using the Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT). Before the conference, they spent a week between the Pasteur Institute dissecting a freshly found roadkill three-finger

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Frederic Delsuc

Oct 12, 2019
1 min

Kathleen presented a poster at SVP 2019

Kathleen attended SVP 2019, the 79th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in her Brisbane hometown (Australia). She presented a poster on using cribiform plate as a proxy to characterize the olfactory capacities of myrmecophagous mammals based on 3D CT-scans obtained during her Master project in the ConvergeAnt team. Reference: Garland K.*, Hautier L., Ferreira-Cardoso S., Wright M., Martinez Q., Fabre P.-H., Lebrun R. & Delsuc F. (2019). Exploring the olfactory

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Frederic Delsuc

Jul 27, 2019
1 min

Two ConvergeAnt talks at ICVM 2019

Sérgio and Lionel participated to ICVM 2019, the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology in Prague (Czech Republic). Sérgio gave a presentation on patterns of phenotypic covariation in the skull of myrmecophagous placentals based on modularity analyses. Lionel talked about covariation patterns in the olfactory system of myrmecophagous mammals based on 3D CT-scans of olfactory turbinals and cribiform plates respectively obtained by Mark and Kathleen during their Master

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MitoFinder poster presented at SMBE 2019

Frederic Delsuc

Jul 26, 2019
1 min

MitoFinder poster presented at SMBE 2019

Rémi and Frédéric attended SMBE 2019, the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Manchester (UK). Rémi presented a poster describing our MitoFinder bioinformatic pipeline designed to automatically extract mitogenomic signal from NGS sequencing data. The corresponding preprint is available from bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/685412v1) and the MitoFinder program can be downloaded from GitHub (https://github.com/RemiAllio/MitoFinde

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Frederic Delsuc

May 22, 2019
1 min

Invited talk at London Calling 2019

Frédéric attended the London Calling 2019 meeting (https://londoncallingconf.co.uk/lc19) in London (UK). Frédéric was kindly invited by Oxford Nanopore Technologies to give a talk in the "Assembly and scaffolding" breakout session. His talk entitled "Genomics from roadkill - high quality mammalian genomes using hybrid assembly with MinION long reads" can be watch on the video below. Allio R., Tilak M.-K., Avenant N.L., Nabholz B. & Delsuc F.* (22-24 May 2019). Genomics from r

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Invited talk at Nanopore Day 2019 in Bordeaux

Frederic Delsuc

Mar 18, 2019
1 min

Invited talk at Nanopore Day 2019 in Bordeaux

Amandine, Marie-Ka, and Frédéric attended the Nanopore Day 2019 meeting (https://colloque.inra.fr/nanoporeday2019/) in Bordeaux (France). Frédéric was invited by Oxford Nanopore Technologies to give a talk on sequencing and assembling mammalian genomes from roadkill by combining Illumina short reads and Nanopore long reads obtained using the MinION device. This study is conducted in collaboration with Nico Avenant of the National Museum of Bloemfontein (South Africa). Allio R

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Talk at ALPHY 2019: Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Conference

Frederic Delsuc

Feb 8, 2019
1 min

Talk at ALPHY 2019: Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Conference

Rémi and Frédéric attended ALPHY 2019, an annual meeting organized in France since 1995, dedicated to the field of Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics in Paris (France). Rémi gave a talk presenting the results on building bioinformatic pipeline to extract mitogenomic signal from DNA capture sequence data. This tool will be useful for our metabarcoding studies aimed at assessing the the diet of ant-eating mammals in South Africa and French Guiana. Allio R.*, Romiguier J.,

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Talk and Poster presented at the 9th Annual Oppenheimer De Beers Research Conference

Frederic Delsuc

Oct 16, 2018
1 min

Talk and Poster presented at the 9th Annual Oppenheimer De Beers Research Conference

Frédéric and Rémi attended the the 9th Annual Oppenheimer De Beers Research Conference in Johannesburg (South Africa). Frédéric gave a talk presenting the results of building a reference mitogenome database of termites and ants from the Tswalu Kalahari and Tussen die Riviere reserves. Rémi presented a poster on mitochondrial divergence through biogeographical disjunction in three species of African carnivores. These studies are conducted in collaboration with Nico Avenant of

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Conference, Lab and Fieldwork in French Guiana

Frederic Delsuc

Sep 25, 2018
1 min

Conference, Lab and Fieldwork in French Guiana

Frédéric, Lionel, Rémi, Sérgio and Marie-Ka attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) together with Fabien Condamine and Pierre-Olivier Antoine (ISEM). Frédéric chaired a session on Neotropical Diversification. Before the conference, they spent five days at the Pasteur Institute dissecting roadkill armadillos and anteaters, as well as the giant anteater of the Cayenne Zoo that died earlier that

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The ConvergeAnt team participated to a successful Evolution 2018 Congress in Montpellier (France)

Frederic Delsuc

Aug 23, 2018
2 min

The ConvergeAnt team participated to a successful Evolution 2018 Congress in Montpellier (France)

Members of the ConvergeAnt project participated to Evolution 2018, the 2nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology held in this year in our home town of Montpellier, France, on August 19-22, with a total of five accepted communication abstracts. Kathleen, Mark, Rémi, and Sérgio acted as volunteers and Frédéric was part of both the Scientific and the local Organizing Committees of what was the biggest congress in Evolutionary Biology ever organized with more than 2600 attendees

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Rémi won SMBE award for best student paper!

Frederic Delsuc

Jul 5, 2018
1 min

Rémi won SMBE award for best student paper!

Huge congratulations to Rémi for winning the 2018 award for Best Graduate Student Paper in the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution journal Molecular Biology and Evolution! The price includes an invitation to the SMBE 2018 meeting in Yokohama (Japan). We are so glad to have him as a PhD student working on the ConvergeAnt project. #Genomics #Students #PhD #Conference

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