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 of the world. The biennal Congress of the ESEB is one of the largest scientific meetings in broadly defined evolutionary biology.
Five researchers members of the CEBA travelled to Lisbon to take part in the discussions: Pierre-Jean Malé (laboratory EDB), Brigitte Crouau-Roy (laboratory EDB), Benoît Pujol (laboratory EDB), Céline Leroy (laboratory AMAP) et Jérôme Orivel (laboratory Ecofog).
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They gave an overview of some of the research programs they work on through an oral presentation and a poster presentation. Céline Leroy (AMAP) presented her works in collaboration with Pierre-Jean Malé and Jérôme Orivel, on plant performance disparities in tripartite mutualistic associations between plants, insects and fungi.
Pierre-Jean Malé presented a poster on his work developed with Jérôme Chave (laboratory EDB), Léa Bardon (doing a thesis in the laboratory EDB) and Caroline Scotti-Saintagne (laboratory Ecofog), on the use of next-generation sequencing to resolve the phylogeny of certain tropical tree families like Chrysobalanaceae.
It should be noted that Benoît Pujol (EDB) and Jérôme Orivel (Ecofog) both co-organized a symposium, respectively on the contribution of non-genetic inheritance to evolutionary processes, and on the ways in which species interactions within a community affect evolution.
To go further
Abstract of C. Leroy’s oral presentation: Download the document
Abstract PJG Malé’s poster as first author: Download document
More information on the congress program: https://www.eseb2013.com
