Scientific programme All scientific contributions will be 20 minutes in duration, plus 5 minutes of questions. Monday October 13th, 2014 Welcome and opening 8:00 to 9:00 9:00 Welcoming address. Annaig Le Guen (CEBA executive director) 9:10 Welcoming address. Francis Duranthon (Director Museum de Toulouse) 9:20 Welcoming address. Bertrand Monthubert (President Université Paul Sabatier) 9:30 Overview of the CEBA science in 2013-2014. Jérôme Chave (CEBA scientific director) 9:55 Coffee break Session 1 Tropical biodiscovery 10:30 Soil diversity: a molecular perspective. Lucie Zinger (CEBA, Toulouse) 10:55 Earthworm diversity. Thibaud Decaens (Montpellier University) 11:20 Phylogeography of tropical trees. Myriam Heuertz (CEBA, Bordeaux) 11:45 Diversity and ecology of Caenorhabditis nematodes: characterizing the evolutionary context of a genetic model organism. Christian Braendle (CNRS Nice)
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Scientific programme All scientific contributions will be 20 minutes in duration, plus 5 minutes of questions.
Monday October 13th, 2014 Welcome and opening 8:00 to 9:00 9:00 Welcoming address. Annaig Le Guen (CEBA executive director) 9:10 Welcoming address. Francis Duranthon (Director Museum de Toulouse) 9:20 Welcoming address. Bertrand Monthubert (President Université Paul Sabatier) 9:30 Overview of the CEBA science in 2013-2014. Jérôme Chave (CEBA scientific director) 9:55 Coffee break
Session 1 Tropical biodiscovery 10:30 Soil diversity: a molecular perspective. Lucie Zinger (CEBA, Toulouse) 10:55 Earthworm diversity. Thibaud Decaens (Montpellier University) 11:20 Phylogeography of tropical trees. Myriam Heuertz (CEBA, Bordeaux) 11:45 Diversity and ecology of Caenorhabditis nematodes: characterizing the evolutionary context of a genetic model organism. Christian Braendle (CNRS Nice)
12:10 lunch break
Session 2: chemistry of natural products 13:30 Overview of the chemistry of natural products in Amazonia. Didier Stien (CEBA Gif-sur-Yvette) 13:55 Wood chemistry using mass spectrometry imaging. Alain Brunelle (CEBA Gif sur Yvette) 14:20 Chemical ecology of ants. Christophe Duplais (CEBA Cayenne) 14:45 Keynote speaker. Emerson Ferreira Queiroz (University of Genève, Switzerland) 15:20 Coffee break
Session 3 Access and Benefit Sharing procedures for French Guiana biodiversity – (in French, with slides in English) 15:45 Impact of the new legal framework for access to biodiversity and sharing. Bruno David (Pierre Fabre, Toulouse) 16:10 ABS: implementation challenges in France and Europe. Sarah Aubertie (FRB, Paris) 16:25 Situation of French Guiana. Frédéric Blanchard (Région Guyane) - TBC
17:00 Evening event in collaboration with Muséum de Toulouse The strategy of FRB for tropical diversity research Jean-François Silvain (president of Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité) -- TBC 17:40 Closing of day 1.
Tuesday October 14th, 2014 Opening 8:30 to 9:00
Session 4 Human health and biodiversity 9:00 Buruli ulcer in French Guiana – a case study. Rodolphe Gozlan (CEBA, Cayenne) 9:25 From host immunity to pathogen invasion: linking helminth co-infection to microparasite dynamics. Vanessa Ezenwa (University of Georgia, USA)
9:50 Perspectives in tropical virology. Benoît de Thoisy (CEBA, Cayenne) 10:15 Coffee break
Session 5 CEBA infrastructures 10:30 CEBA geocatalogue. Grégoire Vincent (CEBA) 10:45 The guyanensis platform, interconnecting biodiversity databases, Jérôme Murienne (CEBA Toulouse) 11:00 ABIOS, a discussion platform for the social sciences. Yann Bérard (CEBA Martinique) 11:15 Virtualbiodiversitylab. Jean-Marc Frigerio (CEBA Bordeaux) 11:30 COPAS, a new instrument for the study of canopy biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Jérôme Chave (CEBA Toulouse) 12:00 lunch break
Session 6 Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 13:30 Fifteen years of research at the Guyaflux site. Damien Bonal (CEBA Nancy) 13:55 Ecosystem functioning and biotic interactions: insights from tank-bromeliads. Céline Leroy (CEBA Cayenne) 14:20 Thirty years of forestry research at Paracou. Bruno Hérault (CEBA Kourou) 14:45 Studies on nutrient imbalances and phosphorus limitation in tropical ecosystems, in the frame of the IMBALANCE-P project. Ivan Janssens (Antwerp University, Belgium) & Josep Penuelas (University of Barcelona, Spain) 15:10 Coffee break
15:45 Round table: the future of CEBA: what are the key research questions and towards international collaborations 16:45 closing of the annual meeting.