2023: I'm participating in a new project funded by the french national research agency EMODOUR (PI Léa Lansade) on the olfactory communication of emotions between animals (horse, sheep) & humans. For this projects, I will recruit a one year engineer skilled in chemical ecology (i.e. GC-MS analysis of VOCs) in 2025. Contact me if you are interested (matthieu.keller[at]inrae.fr).

26-29 June 2023

I'm organizing the  27th annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology in Tours (chair of the organizing committee).

Last trimester 2023

Publication of the book Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 15 with Benoist Schaal and coeditors, Springer Editor.

January 2024

From January 2024, I will join the Steering Committee of the French Office for Scientific Integrity (Ofis) for a period of 4 years (2024-2027).

March 2024

A new grant to study the pheromonal regulation of reproductive function in the fossorial vole Arvicola terrestris. Funding: 221k€ from the french Ministry of Agriculture (2024-2027). A 2 years post-doc to be hired soon.

22 March 2024

I had the pleasure to receive Sylvie Retailleau, french Ministry of research in the laboratory. She visited our imaging platform and had a discussion with some of our researchers. 

23-26 June 2024

Attending the International Symposium on Olfaction & Taste (ISOT) and ECRO board meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.

I was also reelected as treasurer of ECRO board for another 2-years term.

February 2025

Invited to be part of the Bio2 panel of Functional Biology of the FWO (Flanders Research Foundation).

February 2025

New paper published in Science Advances; a study conducted by Pablo Chamero in the lab.

March 2025

Member of the committee for biomedical research and public health of the University Hospital of Tours.

June 2025

Dr Nadini Vasudevan, University of Reading, UK was selected as a Le Studium Fellow to spend one year in my group in 2026!