From Monday through Thursday of next week, Linda Z. Holland from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla (USA) is going to visit our institute.
She will be giving a talk on Tuesday morning (September 22) at 10:00am in the Salle Trégbouboff entitled:
"Comparative genomics and the evolution of left/right asymmetry in chordates: insights from intergenus hybrids of amphioxus"
Georg Mayer, specialist in Onychophorans and Evo-Devo, will present a little of is present work in these very charismatic invertebrates. For more info please check the website: http://www.onychophora.com/mayer.htm
Le nouvel axe Physique du vivant a pour but de faire dialoguer physiciens, mathématiciens et biologistes de Nice et sa région. Il s’agit d’aider au lancement de nouvelles collaborations, de proposer de nouvelles techniques expérimentales: optiques, mécaniques… ou théoriques: modèles physiques, méthodes de résolutions mathématiques.
From next week we have the chance to host Sandie and Bernie Degnan (http://www.degnanlabs.info), who are visiting our Unit as part of their sabbatical. They will be around for three months so I'm sure everybody will have the opportunity to interact with them.
Peter Godfrey Smith , Professor of Philosphy at the City University of New York, will be one of the keynote speakers in our "Convergences" Workshop on Individuality in Biology and Philosophy next Monday and Tuedsay ( http://lbdv.obs-vlfr.fr/convergence/index.html ) .He has offered to give an additional seminar on a different topic at the OOV on Wednesday 9th September : "Do octopuses use projectiles in conspecific interactions?’."
A l'aune de la belle réussite, l'an dernier, de la 1ère édition de la J2CO (Journée des Jeunes Chercheurs de l'Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer), l'équipe de la J2CO a décidé de réitérer l'expérience et de se lancer dans une 2è édition de l'événement.
Le XIXe congrès de l’Association Française de Cytométrie (AFC) se déroulera les 18, 19 et 20 novembre 2015 au Palais des Congrès d’Antibes Juan-les-Pins.
Participation du LBDV au 8th international tunicate meeting au Japon. The 8th international tunicate meeting will be held July 13-17, 2015 at Aomori City Cultural Hall, Aomori, Japan. The International Tunicate Meeting is the major scientific gathering of tunicate researchers with diverse interests, expertizes and experiences in tunicate biology and its related field from around the world, and is regularly held biennially in Europe, North America or Japan. The meeting is organized with plenary sessions and poster sessions.
