December is usually the month of the PhD theses defenses. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Silvestre was in the jury board of 3 excellent works in Namur, Brussels and Nantes.<\/p>\n
First, Mark Holmes has presented his work about stability modelling in a competitive community subject to environmental changes. He has been working in our research unit at UNamur under the supervision of Frederik De Laender.<\/p>\n
Thomas Sol Dourdin has been graduated at Nantes University after the presentation of his thesis about the intergenerational effects of a mixture of pesticides on the oyster. He has been working in IFREMER Nantes under the supervision of Guillaume Riviere and Rossana Sussarellu.<\/p>\n
Lastly, Thibaut Renard showed all his passion for social insects and epigenetics in a remarkable dissertation about DNA methylation profiles in ants and bees. His work has been carried out at ULB under the supervision of Serge Aron.<\/p>\n
It was great to read all these works and to meet young and talented researchers as well as colleagues working in the field.<\/p>\n