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May 26
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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Sophie's outreach activities with Femmes & Science Association and PhD Pub Montpellier

Frederic Delsuc

Apr 11
1 min

Sophie's outreach activities with Femmes & Science Association and PhD Pub Montpellier

Sophie is an active member of the Femmes & Science Association aiming to enhance the value of scientific and technical careers among girls, young women, and to promote the place of women in scientific and technical careers. Together with other Women in STEM, Sophie presented her PhD project to high school students from Lycée Marc Bloch in Sérignan and met middle school students at the Maison de l'Orientation de Montpellier to present her career path. She also participated to

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

Frederic Delsuc

Mar 15
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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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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Invited talk at the 2nd Virtual Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution

Frederic Delsuc

Jun 22, 2021
1 min

Invited talk at the 2nd Virtual Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution

Frédéric was invited to share his views on mammalian phylogenomics and genome-scale species delineation in the "Current methods and applications of big‐data phylogenetics" symposium at the 2nd Virtual Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution. It was a real pleasure to be part of this inclusive event that brings together researchers with different backgrounds from around the world and which is coordinated by young interdisciplinary Latinx scientists, supporting and

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Sophie presented a plenary talk at virtual London Calling 2021

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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Invited talk at the 1st Xenarthra International Conservation Congress

Frederic Delsuc

Nov 30, 2020
1 min

Invited talk at the 1st Xenarthra International Conservation Congress

Frédéric was invited to present the recent advances made on sequencing xenarthran genomes in the ConvergeAnt project at the 1st Xenarthra International Conservation Congress. This four-days online congress was followed by a virtual meeting of the IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group to discuss conservation priority actions on this evolutionary distinct placental group. Delsuc F. (2020). Recent Advances and Future Prospects in Xenarthran Phylogenomics. 1st

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Talk at the Biodiversity Genomics 2020 meeting

Frederic Delsuc

Oct 7, 2020
1 min

Talk at the Biodiversity Genomics 2020 meeting

Rémi presented our results on genome-wide species delineation in aardwolf and bat-eared fox in the Conservation Genomics session of the Biodiversity Genomics 2020 meeting. This online meeting was organized by the Tree of Life programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute to celebrate success, explore challenges and look to the future of sequencing all life on Earth. Rémi's talk can be watched from the congress' YouTube channel: Allio R.*, Tilak M.-K., Avenant N.L., Corre E., Nab

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Invited talk at Montpellier Omics Days 2020

Frederic Delsuc

Feb 7, 2020
1 min

Invited talk at Montpellier Omics Days 2020

Frédéric has been invited to present our results on roadkill genomics using the MinION portable device from Oxford Nanopore Technologies at the 8th edition of the Montpellier Omics Days. Frédéric's talk (in French) can be watched from the congress' YouTube channel: Delsuc F. (2020). Rubrique des chiens écrasés : assemblage hybride de génomes de mammifères de qualité à partir de spécimens récoltés le long des routes. 8th Montpellier Omics Days (Montpellier, France). [Invited o

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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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Invited talk at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris

Frederic Delsuc

Sep 17, 2019
1 min

Invited talk at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris

Frédéric was invited to present the latest results from the ConvergeAnt project at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. Thanks to Laure Ségurel for the invitation and the great roof-top conversation. #Talk #Collaboration

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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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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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Fieldwork at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve (South Africa)

Frederic Delsuc

Nov 6, 2017
1 min

Fieldwork at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve (South Africa)

Frédéric, his wife Nathalie, and Lionel spent another 10 days of fieldwork in the amazing Tswalu Kalahari Reserve (South Africa). The guidance of Wendy Panaino made it possible to collect fresh fecal samples from pangolins, but also to gather an exhaustive collection of ant and termite species from the reserve. Frédéric also took the opportunity to present the ConvergeAnt project to the guides from the Reserve. Many thanks to Duncan MacFadyen, Dylan Smith, and Gus van Dyk for

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Lionel talk at the 17th International Symposium on Dental Morphology (ISDM)

Frederic Delsuc

Oct 7, 2017
1 min

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: 17th International Symposium on Dental Morphology (ISDM) & 2nd congress of International Association for Paleodontology (IAPO) in Bordeaux (France). Hautier L.* & Ferreira-Cardoso S. (4-7 October 2017). A developmental perspective on the evolution of the dentition of “toothless mammals”. 17th International Symposium on Dental Morphology (ISDM)

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Talk at the 1st International Conference on Holobionts

Frederic Delsuc

Apr 19, 2017
1 min

Talk at the 1st International Conference on Holobionts

Frédéric presented results on the comparaison of the gut microbiome composition between wild and captive mammals at the 1st International Conference on Holobionts in the beautiful auditorium of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris (France). Delsuc F.*, Song S.J., Metcalf J.L., Amato K.R., Sanders J.G., Avenant N.L., MacFadyen D.N., McKenzie V.J. & Knight R. (19-21 April 2017). Evolution of the gut microbiome in wild versus captive mammals. 1st International Conference on

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