People I work with
Our research unit was created in 2003 and got the highest grade (A+) at both 2007, 2010, and 2014 AERES Research Assessments. Research units are still assessed but there is no grade anymore. Our unit is organized into several research groups like all research units or departments within French Universities.
I am a member of the ‘Ecological and Evolutionary Diversification of Populations’ group which includes seven CNRS researchers, two professors, twelve lecturers, and several graduate students. None of us has a ‘lab’, strictly speaking. We share facilities and expertise to favour collaborative work as much as possible within the group and also with other groups within the research unit. While the French system may look very odd to the rest of the world, it has some strengths as long as team spirit, creativity, and knowledge remain a collective aim but this works only if core funding is relatively important in comparison to individual grants (unfortunately this is no longer the case).
PhD students
Barbara Freitas (co-supervised with B. Mila and D. Gil) works on the evolution of song and its role in bird speciation
Amandine Vidal-Hosteng (co-supervised with R. Aguilée) works on island biogeography models
Marine Ha-Shan (co-supervised with L. Chikhi) works on historical demographic inferences using genome data
Former PhD students
Collette Chaffe (Genetics of flower colour in Antirrhinum)
Ben Warren (Phylogenetics of Indian Ocean Island birds)
Natalia Norden (Seedling dynamics in tropical rain forests)
Kadarusman (Sytematics and evolution of rainbow fishes)
Joeri Strijk (Biogeography and evolution of Mascarene plants)
Juliane Casquet (Community Assembly in island spiders)
Jean Olivier (Ecology of bamboo forests in S America)
Marie Fougère-Damezan (Systematics of Detarieae)
Joris Bertrand (Populations genetics of Zosterops borbonicus)
Yann Bourgeois (Genetics and evolution of a plumage colour polymorphism in Zosterops borbonicus)
Boris Delahaie (Dynamics of hybrid zones in Zosterops borbonicus)
Jean-Pierre Vacher (Evolution of amphibian diversity in the Guyana Shield)
Jade Bruxaux (Biogeography and evolution of pigeons and doves)
Maëva Gabrielli (Population genomics and evolution of the Zosterops borbonicus species complex)
Main collaborators
Borja Mila
Jérôme Sueur
Katerina Sam
Dominique Strasberg
Hidayat Ashari
Kostas triantis
Benoit Nabholz
Robin Aguilée
Louise Ashton
Lounes Chikhi
I am a member of the ‘Ecological and Evolutionary Diversification of Populations’ group which includes seven CNRS researchers, two professors, twelve lecturers, and several graduate students. None of us has a ‘lab’, strictly speaking. We share facilities and expertise to favour collaborative work as much as possible within the group and also with other groups within the research unit. While the French system may look very odd to the rest of the world, it has some strengths as long as team spirit, creativity, and knowledge remain a collective aim but this works only if core funding is relatively important in comparison to individual grants (unfortunately this is no longer the case).
PhD students
Barbara Freitas (co-supervised with B. Mila and D. Gil) works on the evolution of song and its role in bird speciation
Amandine Vidal-Hosteng (co-supervised with R. Aguilée) works on island biogeography models
Marine Ha-Shan (co-supervised with L. Chikhi) works on historical demographic inferences using genome data
Former PhD students
Collette Chaffe (Genetics of flower colour in Antirrhinum)
Ben Warren (Phylogenetics of Indian Ocean Island birds)
Natalia Norden (Seedling dynamics in tropical rain forests)
Kadarusman (Sytematics and evolution of rainbow fishes)
Joeri Strijk (Biogeography and evolution of Mascarene plants)
Juliane Casquet (Community Assembly in island spiders)
Jean Olivier (Ecology of bamboo forests in S America)
Marie Fougère-Damezan (Systematics of Detarieae)
Joris Bertrand (Populations genetics of Zosterops borbonicus)
Yann Bourgeois (Genetics and evolution of a plumage colour polymorphism in Zosterops borbonicus)
Boris Delahaie (Dynamics of hybrid zones in Zosterops borbonicus)
Jean-Pierre Vacher (Evolution of amphibian diversity in the Guyana Shield)
Jade Bruxaux (Biogeography and evolution of pigeons and doves)
Maëva Gabrielli (Population genomics and evolution of the Zosterops borbonicus species complex)
Main collaborators
Borja Mila
Jérôme Sueur
Katerina Sam
Dominique Strasberg
Hidayat Ashari
Kostas triantis
Benoit Nabholz
Robin Aguilée
Louise Ashton
Lounes Chikhi
