Despite a last year largely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, Rémi Allio managed to successfully defended his PhD entitled "Phylogenomics and comparative genomics in myrmecophagous mammals" co-directed by Frédéric Delsuc and Benoit Nabholz. Thanks to all jury members for joining virtually or physically: Carole Smadja (CNRS, University of Montpellier, France), Emmanuelle Jousselin (INRAe, France), Marie Sémon (ENS Lyon, France), Robert Waterhouse (Uni

We are pleased to welcome Victor Luxey and Timothée Kastylevky as new Master students in the ConvergeAnt project for the next six months. Victor is a second year Master student from the Master program in Bioinformatics of the University of Bordeaux. His project consists in studying chitinase genes in mammalian fecal metagenomes. Timothée is a post-Master student from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure (ENS) Lyon co-supervised with Marie Sémon. His project is looking at molecular

We are pleased to welcome back Sophie Teullet and Mathilde Barthe both starting their PhD within the ConvergeAnt project for the next three years. For her PhD, Sophie will follow-up from her Master degree investigating dietary adaptations in the genomes of ant-eating mammals but will also explore the functional potential of their gut microbiomes for insect digestion. Mathilde secured a PhD grant from the Center for the Study of Biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA) to work on detec

We are pleased to welcome Sophie Teullet in the ConvergeAnt project for the next six months. Sophie is a Master student (M2) from the Master Programme in Ecologyof the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). She will be working on chitinase evolution in ant-eating mammals using both genomic and transcriptomic data. #Anteaters #Armadillos #Aardwolf #Aardvark #Master #Students #Bioinformatics #Transcriptomes #Pangolins #Genomes