Teaching

 

I teach every field of Behavioural Ecology, which is the evolutionary approach of behaviour. I also provide lectures about non-genetic inheritance and its implications for evolution.

  • I teach mainly at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse where I give lectures in L2 to M2.

 

Lectures

You can see two of my lectures that are part of an international online module on animal culture:

  • To see the whole module Click here
  • To see my lecture about cultural transmission in insects. Click here
  • To see my lecture about the evolutionary implications of animal culture: Click here

For a general presentation written in French online for students and teachers on the importance of non-genetic heredity Click here

 

Supervisions

Current PhDs

  • No more PhDs supervised

Current Post-Docs

  • No more Post-Docs supervised

 

Former supervision

PhDs

  • Ricardo Santiago: Conformity in mate choice in humans and Drosophila melanogaster. ‘PhD started in 2019, on a CNRS 80|PRIME Interdisciplinary PhD grant. Interdisciplinarity between INEE, INSHS and INSB. Co-supervized with Guillaume Isabel and Paul Seabright.
  • Magdalena Monier: Mate Copying in drosophila: evolutionary and mechanistic approaches (PhD Grant from the ENS Cachan. Co-supervized with Guillaume Isabel. Started in 2015. Defended in 2020).
  • Xiaobo Wang : Cultural evolution in Fish. (PhD with a Chinese PhD grant. Co-supervized with Sabine Nöbel and Myriam Roussigné. Started in 2012. defended in 2016).
  • Anne-Cécile Dagaeff : Cultural evolution in Drosophila melanogaster (PhD started in 2011, with a French PhD grant. Co-supervised with Guillaume Isabel. Defended in 2015).
  • Thomas Merkling: On sexratio and sibling competition: an insight into reproductive decisions in the black-legged kittiwake
    (Rissa tridactyla). (PhD started in 2010, French PhD grant. Co-supervized with Pierrick Blanchard. Defended in 2013).
  • Nadia Silva: Interspecific habitat copying. Co-supervised with Deseada Parejo (Spain), PhD started in 2004, with a French PhD grant. PhD defended in 2008.
  • Mathilde Baude : Social information in a foraging context in bumble bees. Consequences at the community level. (co-supervised with Isabelle Dajoz, Paris), PhD started in 2005, with a French PhD grant. PhD defended in 2009).
  • Susana Varela : The role of Social Information in fitness enhancing decision making. (co-supervised with Richard H. Wagner (Austria), PhD started in 2002, with a grant from Portugal). PhD defense in 2008. Simon Blanchet, Etienne Danchin and Susana Varela in the fish lab.
  • Joel White : The young sperm hypothesis. (co-supervised with Richard H. Wagner (Austria), PhD started in 2003, with a French PhD grant). PhD defended in 2007.  Joël White holding a kittiwake chickon Middleton’s experimental Tower.
  • Hervé Mulard : Mate choice in a genetically monogamous species. (co-supervised with Richard H. Wagner (Austria), PhD started in 2004, with a French PhD AMN grant). PhD defended in 2007. Hervé Mulard on Middleton.
  • Sarah Leclaire : Mate choice in a genetically monogamous species : The role of odors. (co-supervised with Richard H. Wagner (Austria)), PhD started in 2006, with a French PhD grant). Sarah Leclaire on Middleton. Sarah Leclaire on Middleton

Post-Docs

  • Sabine Nöbel: Cultural transmission in fish and drosophila. (On the Soc-H² ANR grant from 2014 to 2018, then An IAST interdisciplinary grant until mid 2021). Co-supervized with Guillaume Isabel, and Paul Seabright.
  • Laure-Anne Poissonnier: Neurogenetics of mate-copying ins Drosophila melanogaster. (On the MoleCulture ANR grant, 2019-2021. Co-supervised with Guillaume Isabel).
  • Simon Blanchet: Cultural transmission in fish and drosophila. (Fyssen PostDoc grant).
  • Adeline Loyau: Cultural transmission in fish and drosophila. (CNRS PostDoc grant, co-supervized with Jean Clobert).
  • Deseada Parejo: On a Marie Curie Euroean Postdoctoral Grant.