Sophie and Frédéric have been interviewed by journalist Hélène Gélot who wrote a nice outreach article on the convergent evolution of ant-eating in mammals for the French scientific magazine for kids Science et Vie Junior. It was a pleasure discussing all things myrmecophagy with her. Citation: Gélot H. (2026). Il était une fois les mangeurs de fourmis. Science et Vie Junior 439: 60-63. #Outreach #Microbiome #Students #PhD #Anteaters #Pangolins #Aardwolf #Aardvark #Armadi

Mathilde first PhD work on species delimitation in the long-nosed armadillo species complex has been published in Systematic Biology (doi:10.1093/sysbio/syae027). This study revealed a disctinct species of long-nosed armadillo endemic to the Guianan shield (Dasypus guianensis) that we describes. We also CT-scanned the type specimen hosted at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris). We published and made the 3D-data freely available through MorphoMuseuM (doi:10.18563/

After a 3.5 years dedicated to the study of her beloved xenarthrans and their genomes, Mathilde Barthe successfully defended her PhD entitled "Species delimitation in xenarthran mammals at the genomic scale" co-directed by Frédéric Delsuc and Benoit Nabholz. We would like to thanks all jury members: Violaine Nicolas-Colin (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Antoine Fouquet (CNRS, Toulouse), Christelle Fraïsse (CNRS, Lille), Nicolas Galtier (CNRS, Montpellier) and C

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...

Rémi, Marie-Ka, and Frédéric participated in a work on the phylogeny and evolution of all living pangolin species now published in...

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

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...

Congratulations to Mariana Escobar Rodriguez for a successful oral defense of her Master project from the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme...

After two years of online talks, Sophie finally had the opportunity to present in-person the metagenomic part of her PhD project at the...

Sophie is an active member of the Femmes & Science Association aiming to enhance the value of scientific and technical careers among...

Following from her participation to the 2nd annual Animal Microbiome Research Group (AMRG) virtual meeting (https://amrg.mystrikingly.com...

After four years within the ConvergeAnt project as a PhD student, then a postdoc, Rémi is moving for new adventures. From the field in...

Sophie Teullet presented her work on using long read metagenomics to study dietary adaptations in ant-eating mammal at the 2nd annual...

After submitting a poster abstract to present her work on ant-eating mammal microbiomes using long read metagenomics, Sophie Teullet was...

Sophie attended the first one-week online course on Introduction to Genome-resolved Metagenomics for Microbial Communities organized by...

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

After four years investigating morphological convergence of the feeding apparatus of ant-eating mammals by scanning and digitizing...

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