June - Our preprint on the relationship between phenotypic plasticity and polymorphism is published on BioRxiv.
April - Antonin Conti, undergranduate student at the University of Paris Saclay, joins the lab to study the evolution of the male reproductive system.
March - Amir is invited at the Science, Philosophy, History (SPHERE) seminars in Paris to give a talk on the history of evolutionary thinking.
March - Juliette Hertgen--Girard, M1 student at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, joins the lab to study the evolution of the female reproductive system.
January - Antoine Touret, M2 student at the University of Paris Saclay, joins the lab to work on speciation on the islands of the Western Indian Ocean.
December - Carolina's paper on the phylogenomics of the Drosophila saltans species group is accepted in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
November - Erina's paper on the population genomics of chromosomal inversions in the noni-specialist Drosophila yakuba mayottensis is accepted in Molecular Ecology.
October - Our preprint on the population genomics of Egyptian Zaprionus is now posted on BioRxiv.
September – Amir is invited to present two talks in XII SEGED (Symposium of Ecology, Genetics and Evolution of Drosophila), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
August – Prof. Lilian Madi-Ravazzi, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao José do Rio Preto, Brazil, visits our lab for 3 months.
July – Nathan Woeffel, undergraduate at University of Paris-Saclay, conducts a 1-month internship on “Drosophila behavioral experiments”.
June – Céline presents a poster at Euro Evo Devo, Helsinki, Finland.
June – Amir gives a talk at the Jacques Monod Conference “Life is plastic” at Roscoff, France.
May – Amir is an invited as a plenary speaker at iEES Paris scientific day, Versailles, France.
May – Prof. Rogério Mateus, Universidade Estadual do Centro Oeste, Brazil, visits our lab to work on invasive Zaprionus in Brazil.
May – Antoine Touret, M1 student, conducts a 2-month internship on the “systematics of Drosophilidae in the islands of the Western Indian Ocean”.
April – Amir is giving a course on “agricultural and ecological genomics” at the University of Alexandria, Egypt.
April – Our paper on the first record of Zaprionus tuberculatus in France, led by Romain Georges and Hervé Colinet from ECOBIO, is published in Entomological Research.
March – Céline and Alizée present their works at the EGCEriales.
February – Our paper on the genome of the bee louse Braula coeca and its relation to the origin of the Drosophilidae, an EGCE effort led by Héloïse Bastide, is published in Current Biology.
January – Nicolas Hisleur, M2 student at the University of Paris-Saclay, conducts a 6-month internship on “Drosophila sexual behavior”.
December – Céline gives a talk at JIDEEV.
December – Carolina defends her PhD thesis entitled “Evolutionary genomics of the Neotropical Drosophila saltans species group” at Sao José do Rio Preto, Brazil.
November – Amir gives a course on “introduction to evolutionary genomics” at the University of Sao Paulo at Sao José do Rio Preto, Brazil.
November – Amir gives a talk at ETEE2023.
November - Lilia Abdelbaki, a PhD student at the University Houari Boumediene at Algiers, Algeria, conducts a 1-month visit of our lab.
October – A preprint from Carolina’s thesis on the phylogenomics of the Drosophila saltans species group and a new test of introgression is available on BioRxiv.
October – Amir is elected future head of the EGCE lab for the period 2026-2030. The new directory team includes Richard Cordaux (adjunct head), Line Duportets (chargée de mission Université) and François Rebaudo (chargé de mission IRD).
September – Alizée is starting her PhD on “Braula evolution” (co-supervision with Héloïse Bastide, and in close collaboration with Julie Carcaud and Jean-Christophe Sandoz).
May – A revision of Erina’s preprint on chromosomal inversions in D. yakuba is uploaded on BioRxiv.
May – Amir gives a talk on the “Life and work of Jean R. David” at Integrating Evolutionary Genetics and Ecology conference, Collège de France, Paris, France.
March – Our paper on the homology of male genital structures led by Gavin Rice and Mark Rebeiz is published at the Journal of Experimental Zoology.
February – Amir gives a talk at the University of Alexandria, Egypt.
December – Amir is invited to give a talk in DrosTuga, Batalha, Portugal.
December – Erina defends her PhD thesis entitled "genomic basis and evolutionary mechanisms of a recurrent case of ecological speciation in Drosophila" at Gif-sur-Yvette.
November – Erina gives a talk at JIDEEV.
November – Marcus Stensmyr visits our lab.
October – Our paper on the “long-term evolution of quantitative traits in the Drosophila melanogaster species subgroup” is published in Genetica.
October – Amir participates at the Prospectives of the INEE meeting at La Rochelle, France.
August – Amir gives a talk and Erina a poster in the ESEB conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
July – Marianthi Karageorgi visits our lab.
May - Amir is invited to give a talk on the work of Jean David at the Petits Poids Déridés in Lille, France.
May – The second paper on the terminology of Drosophila terminalia by the Drosophila Genitalia Consortium is published in Fly.
May - Issa Mze Hassani, researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche pour l'Agriculture, la Pêche et l'Environnement (INRAPE), Moroni, Union des Comores, visits our lab for 2 months to work on the drosophilid diversity in the Comoros Archipelago.
April – Audrey Thorng, undergraduate student at Université Paris-Saclay, conducts a 2-month internship in our lab on Drosophila genital evolution .
April – Alicia Lemaire, undergraduate student at Université Paris-Saclay conducts a 2-month internship in our lab on Drosophila color evolution.
April – Erina gives a talk at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference 2022, San Diego, USA. Amir and Carolina present posters in the same conference.
April – Our paper on experimental introgression of pigmentation genes and its effect on behavioral isolation is published in Ecology & Evolution.
April – The EGCE lab moves to the IDEEV building on the plateau of Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette.