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Here are the news of the past few weeks about environmental genomics, a field of research strongly supported by the CEBA, particularly within the AMAZOMICS program : – The CEBA held its first thematic school in Kourou, from October 10 to … Continued

During 2013, a CEBA internal jury auditioned candidates for theses proposed in the research area of the Labex. Five students were selected for funding. They started their work on October 1st 2013. In addition, the thesis launched in August on lepidopterism … Continued

An international study, in which several scientists of the CEBA participated, with the support of the IRD Herbarium of French Guiana, which is a partner of the CEBA, just provided the first large-scale inventory of trees of the Amazonian basin. … Continued

Within the framework of the STRONGER research program on emerging and infectious diseases, the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane is recruiting a research assistant in molecular biology / medical entomology. About the position The research assistant will be working at the Medical Entomology Unit … Continued

  The Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (CEBA) organizes its second annual meeting in French Guiana on October 8th and 9th, 2013 at the Novotel, route de Montabo, in Cayenne. This congress will take stock of the … Continued

From 19 to 24 August 2013, in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, the 14th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) was taking place. The ESEB is an academic society that brings together over 1600 evolutionary biologists from Europe and the rest … Continued

[Article by the Ecology and environment institute of the CNRS] Researchers of the CNRS, IRD and universities of Toulouse and Clermont-Ferrand studied the ecosystems based in the water reservoirs of 365 Bromeliads in French Guiana. They identified all of the … Continued

For the third edition, the international congress on biodiversity of the Guiana Shield is taking place at Paramaribo, in Suriname, from August 5th to 8th, 2013. The objective of this conference is to identify impacts of economic development within the … Continued

One of the major issues in biodiversity research is to understand when and how the vast biodiversity we observe today in Amazonia has emerged. New techniques are available to construct more accurate scenarios of the history of Neotropical biodiversity (phylogenomic, … Continued

The Association for tropical biodiversity and conservation (ATBC) and the Organization for tropical studies (OTS) organized a joint 50th anniversary celebration during the ATBC annual meeting. In 2013, this meeting took place June 23-27 in San José, the capital city of Costa Rica. Nearly 1000 … Continued