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Keynote speakersEarth and Plantary sciences
Amaelle Landais Working on Quaternary climate expertise by studing ice core samples, she also studies isotopic geochemistry where she developped new techniques of chemical tracers analysis.
Sytematics and Comparative anatomy
Sophie Nadot is a professor of botanics at the University of Paris-Sud. She is a the head of "Evolution of Angionspermes" team in the "Ecology, systematics and evolution" laboratory. She works on the evolution of a shape of flowers and pollen.
Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation Céline Bellard - Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (UMR 8079) Her line of research follows the philosophy of biogeography. Her main research interest is now to improve the characterization of the future impacts for biodiversity taking into account synergies between threats such as climate change and biological invasions.
Humanities and Natural sciences Sylvie Le Bomin is a professor at hte MNHN in ethnomusicology (UMR 7206). Her research on the african continent and especially in Gabon consists in systematics, catogarisation and evolution of traditional music.
Evolutionary Ecology Florence Débarre (iEES - EERI team) : "Selfish genetic elements and the control of populations"
 A theoretician in evolutionary ecology she investigate with mathematical models how demographic dynamics, intra- and interspecific interactions influence the evolution of life-history traits, and reciprocally.
Florence have worked on topics ranging from the evolution of specialization, to the evolution of host defense in host-parasite interactions. A central, although not exclusive, goal in her research is to determine the influence of spatial structure and heterogeneity on the maintenance of diversity and on the evolution of life-history traits. A characteristic of her research is the diversity of subjects she have tackled, the variety of methods she use, and her wish to bridge the gaps between existing frameworks.
Methods in Natural sciences
Clémentine Vignal is a professor working in the institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris (iEES-Paris). Her work focus on how social relationships in animals rely on communication systems. More precisely she is interested in acoustic communication based on calls in songbirds, especially the zebra finch. She is also interested in gender and sex differences in animal behavior studies. Her talk is entitled "Active males, passive females: gender stereotypes in the study of animal behaviour ?". Abstract: "The study of animal behaviour has widely used the framework of sexual selection theory, which predicts different strategies for females and males. This field of research has produced strong illustrations of Darwin’s theory. But what are the limitations of the paradigm of conventional sex roles? What are the consequences for the study of animal behaviour of the predicted dichotomy of sex roles? How do gender stereotypes and anthropomorphic views influence research practice? I will report and discuss how these questions have recently been debated in the field, and more generally stress the heuristic value of questioning our potential ideological bias as scientists."
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