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News of the EPE team

  June 2020

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Dobson FS, Murie JO, Viblanc VA. 2020. Fitness estimation for ecological studies : an evaluation in Columbian ground squirrels. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 216 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00216/abstract
• Constant T, Giroud S, Viblanc VA, Tissier ML, Bergeron P, Dobson FS, Habold C. 2020. Integrating mortality risks and the adaptiveness of hibernation. Frontiers in Physiology 11, 706 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.00706
• Debache I, Jeantet L, Chevallier D, Bergouignan A, Sueur C. 2020. A lean and performant hierarchical model for human activity recognition using body-mounted sensors. Sensors, 20(11), 3090 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20113090
• Puga-Gonzalez I, Sueur, C, Sosa S. 2020. Null models for animal social network analysis and data collected via focal sampling : pre- or network permutation ? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00 : 1– 11. DOI : 10.1111/2041-210X.13400
• Meyer X, MacIntosh A, Chiaradia A, Kato A, Ramírez Francisco, Sueur C, Ropert-Coudert Y. 2020. Oceanic thermal structure mediates dive sequences in a foraging seabird. Ecology and Evolution, 00:1-13. DOI : 10.1111/1744-7917.12792
• Viblanc VA, Schull Q, Stier A, Durand L, Lefol E, Robin JP, Zahn S, Bize P, Criscuolo F. 2020. Foster rather than biological parental telomere length predicts offspring survival and telomere length in king penguins. Molecular Ecology, in press.
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.15485

Media coverage

• Criscuolo F. « La Covid-19 est un rappel que l’humanité doit évoluer » https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/coronavirus-rappel-humanite-evolution-177306
• True Facts : Macaques (with videos by Marie Pelé and Cédric Sueur) https://youtu.be/wZ4cadzCZUI
• Introduction à l’éthique animale par Cédric Sueur : https://youtu.be/WzmcZDMs8lk
• Introduction au Droit animal par Cédric Sueur : https://youtu.be/Qsk3_uh-NpY

Presentations

• Carsten Schradin is a co-host and organiser of the new International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXFO1pLpCTBy7vSwLWH-GA

  April 2020

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Canteloup C, Puga-Gonzalez I, Sueur C, van de Waal E. 2020. The effects of data collection and observation methods on uncertainty of social networks in wild primates. American Journal of Primatology, in press. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23137
• Criscuolo F., Sueur C., Bergouignan A. 2020. Human adaptation to deep space environment : an evolutionary perspective of the foreseen interplanetary exploration. Frontiers in Public Health, section Environmental Health. doi : 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00119
• Quque M, Bles O, Bénard A, Héraud A, Meunier B, Criscuolo F, Deneubourg JL, Sueur C. 2020. Hierarchical networks of food exchange in the black garden ant Lasius niger. Insect Science, in press. doi:10.1111/1744-7917.12792
• Romano V, Lozano S & Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo J (2020) A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter–gatherer societies. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12599
• Sosa S, Dobson FS, Bordier C, Neuhaus P, Saraux C, Bosson C, Palme R, Boonstra R & Viblanc VA. 2020. Social stress in female Columbian ground squirrels : density-independent effects of kin contribute to variation in fecal glucocorticoid metabolites. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 74 : 50. https://rdcu.be/b3ptX

Media coverage

• Droit des animaux, histoire du véganisme… L’université s’empare de la cause animale.
• Des écureuils sous pression sociale. CNRS - Zeste de Sciences.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTOhpuATfU
• Romano V. Explanatory video : Model for analysing social networks in Prehistory.
  https://twitter.com/Valeria__Romano/status/1247132296584593408?s=20
• Researchers suggest a new model for analyzing the social networks of Prehistory.
  https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/191238?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/191238

New grants

• PhD student contract for three years from the CNRS to Marie Pelé and Cédric Sueur. Development on artificial intelligence to analyse humans and apes drawings.

  March 2020

Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports

• Choné A., Iribarren I., Pelé M., Repussard C., Sueur C. 2020. Les études animales sont-elles bonnes à penser ? Éditions l’Harmattan. 198 pages. ISBN : 978-2-343-19276-5
• Choné A., Iribarren I., Pelé M., Repussard C., Sueur C. 2020. Repenser la relation homme-animal. Éditions l’Harmattan. 166 pages. ISBN : 978-2-343-19277-2

Presentations

• Dobson FS & Viblanc VA. Social environment, stress and evolutionary success. University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Sciences (USIAS) seminar. March, 12 - 2020.

Media coverage

• C. Sueur Vidéo Table ronde : « SARU, Vie et comportements culturels des macaques japonais »
• Stress et santé chez les animaux : ce que nous apprend le stress des écureuils. Le Journal du CNRS

New grants

• MITI 2020 Processus et techniques d’apprentissages (16k€) to Marie Pelé and Cédric Sueur

Others

• A WhatsApp group “EPE works from home” was created at the start of the Corona crisis and soon extended for the entire lab to “DEPE works from home” to support a good work spirit and to increase communication of the lab during the period of confinement.
• The EPE (as part of the DEPE) donated gloves, laboratory equipment etc. for the fight against COVID-19.
• The Succulent Karoo Research Station had to close down due to the Corona crisis. One of the two managers left for her home country. The local authorities rejected access to a newly arrived foreign national who arrived to support the remaining manager who then also left the station.
• Heartfelt thanks and sincerest appreciation from all the EPE team members to all the medical personnel and all of those risking their lives in the fight against COVID-19.

  February 2020

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Criscuolo F. and Sueur C. (2020) An evolutionary point of view of animal ethics. Frontiers in Psychology, section Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. In press.
• Sosa S, Puga-Gonzalez I, Sueur C. 2020. Network measures in animal social network analysis : their strengths, limits, interpretations and uses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, in press

Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports

• Quque M., Bles O. (2020) Lasius. In : Starr C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer, Cham
  · 10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_169-1

Preprints (unpublished manuscript available on review servers)

• Romano, V., Sueur, C., & MacIntosh, A. J. (2020, February 4). The trade-off between information and pathogen transmission in animal societies. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/vqt4g

Presentations

• Sueur, C., 2020, Research Gaps in Animal Social Network Analysis, Asura International Seminars, Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto University : http://www.wildlife-science.org/en/asura-seminar/20200131.html
• Sueur, C.« SARU, SINGES DU JAPON » – EXPOSITION ET CONFÉRENCE, Institut Français du Kansai, Kyoto, Japon
• VA Viblanc participated in the Ose La Recherche event organized by Le Vaisseau and CNRS on Feb 12, 2020. http://www.levaisseau.com/fr/familles/ose-la-recherche/
  High school students were introduced to various research fields and invited to think about research problems and potential careers in science !

Media coverage

• The Columbian ground squirrel project led by VA Viblanc and FS Dobson received coverage by the CNRS images and Le Monde. Stay tuned for a full length movie coming up next summer !
  https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/video/2020/01/31/ce-que-nous-apprend-le-stress-des-ecureuils_6027950_1650684.html
• MOOC Vivre avec les autres animaux, https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:uved+34010+session01/about
• [S]city : Naviguer dans la foule : comment notre cerveau évite t-il les collisions ? https://www.scity-lab.com/blog/2020/1/13/naviguer-dans-la-foule-
• The PrimateCast #57 : "Saving the golden lion tamarin with D^r. Valéria Romano

New grants

• Sueur, C., co-lauréat 80|Prime CNRS, Géopolitique du mouton : une leçon de modernité ? Faire société avec le bétail dans les turbulences du monde actuel
• Criscuolo F., Bertile F. (both IPHC) and Bouillaud F. (INSB, Hospital Cochin) get a PhD grant 80 Prime from the Mission for Interdisciplinarity of the CNRS to work on ants’ mitochondria. Starting date October 2020.

Visitors

Welcome to Valéria Romano, presently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alicante, Spain. Valéria is back to the DEPE and will be mainly working on human cultural evolution. Her research focuses on the interface between socio-spatial structure and cultural transmission using the archaeological record.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Valéria Romano and the Paleodem team (Javier Fernández-López de Pablo and Magda Gómez-Puche, http://paleodem.eu/), which got the Summer Course "Introduction to Modelling in Archaeology" selected by the Rafael Altamira call - University of Alicante, Spain.

  January 2020

Non-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, published abstracts and reports

• Schradin, C. and R. H. Straub (2020). The role of the immune system from an evolutionary perspective Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Medical Education—for maternal and child healthcare students, clinicians, and scientists. J. Schulkin and J. Michael L. Power. Oxford, Oxford University Press

Visitors

• Welcome to Ines Fache, Master II from the University of Strasbourg, who started her Master II degree with J Bleu (ADAGE team, IPHC-DEPE), F Criscuolo and S Zahn on environmental factors driving breeding success and telomere dynamics in the little owl (Athene noctua). This work is based on the long-term database set-up since 2001 by Alsacian volunteers, managed by Bertrand Scaar. This program is conducted in collaboration with the Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux.

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