Despite a first year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, Sophie Teullet successfully defended her PhD...

Sophie's main PhD paper on metagenomics of the gut microbiota in convergent myrmecophagous mammal species has been published in mSystems ...

Sophie and Frédéric attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2023) held as a multi-site urban...

As the last step in her oral presentation marathon, Sophie had the opportunity to present her work on long-read metagenomics and...

After two years of online talks, Sophie finally had the opportunity to present in-person the metagenomic part of her PhD project at the...

Sophie and Frédéric took the TGV to Paris to visit collaborators Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo from the Evolutionary Biology of...

Sophie is an active member of the Femmes & Science Association aiming to enhance the value of scientific and technical careers among...

Following from her participation to the 2nd annual Animal Microbiome Research Group (AMRG) virtual meeting (https://amrg.mystrikingly.com...

Sophie Teullet presented her work on using long read metagenomics to study dietary adaptations in ant-eating mammal at the 2nd annual...

After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Frédéric, Lionel, Rémi and Marie-Ka returned to French Guiana in the Pasteur...

We are happy to share our optimized protocol for extracting high molecular weight bacterial DNA from field-collected fecal samples. This...

After submitting a poster abstract to present her work on ant-eating mammal microbiomes using long read metagenomics, Sophie Teullet was...

The results of the vertebrate microbiome project in collaboration with Rob Knight's lab at the University of California in San Diego are...

Yin Xun (Zach) Tan joins the ConvergeAnt project for the next semester. Zach is a Master student from the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme...

Chris and Frédéric participated in a study on the molecular evolution and loss of function of the ameloblast-associated gene ODAM in...

Frédéric wrote a short scientific outreach article in French in Médecine/Sciences (doi:10.1051/medsci/2018317) giving some general...

So proud of Sérgio's first PhD paper on the evolution of mandibular innervation after tooth regression in placental mammals just...

Amandine Magdeleine joined the ConvergeAnt project as a Research Assistant following from her Bachelor degree obtained at the University...

Our study on the evolution of chitinase genes and pseudogenes in placental mammal genomes is published in Science Advances...

Frédéric and Rémi visited the Parc Zoologique de Montpellier to collect blood and swabs from a two-toed fingered sloth (Choloepus...