Principal Investigator
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Caroline Nieberding, PhD. Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Evolutionary Biologist. See CV.
Postdoctoral collaborators
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Dr Stefano Masier (Italy) studies, in collaboration with Matteo and Raluca, the role of learning for key behaviours in adapting to rapid environmental changes , using Belgian butterflies as model systems.
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Dr Raluca Voda (Romania) studies, in collaboration with Matteo, the role of learning for key behaviours in adapting to rapid environmental changes , using Belgian butterflies as model systems.
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Dr Matteo Marcantonio (Italy) studies, in collaboration with Raluca, the role of learning for key behaviours in adapting to rapid environmental changes , using Belgian butterflies as model systems.
Graduate students
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Doriane Muller (France) studies the role of learning on mating preference in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana.
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Simon Braem (Belgium) studies the role of plasticity and of learning on oviposition in the butterfly Pararge aegeria. Main promoter: Prof. H. van Dyck.
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Valentine Chapelle (Belgium) studies the epigenetic basis of reproductive behaviours in a self-fertilizing fish. Main promoter: Prof.F. Silvestre.
Research assistants
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2022: Welcome to Mr Baptiste Gangneux (France, AgroSup Dijon) for a 4-month research stay in the lab.
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Welcome to the new Msc Students in 2022: Pierre d’Halluin (on picture), Mathias Blondlet, Hélène Leonard and Mathilde LeLevier, in addition to Lauren Lecourtois, and Arkel Piret, Msc students in Evolutionary Ecology in 2021
Technical support
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Former staff members of the lab
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Research assistant Mr Tenzin Palden (Tibet) in 2021
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Research assistant Mr Aurélien Vielfaure (France, haute école AgroSup de Dijon) for 4-months in 2021, research stay on adaptive behaviours in butterflies.
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Dr. Bertanne Visser (The Netherlands), evolutionary biologist, now permanent Research Associate of the Belgian FNRS at ULiège
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Dr. Camille Turlure (France), ecologist, now Publication coordinator at Modis company (Belgium).
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Dr. Marie-Jeanne Holveck, (France), ecologist, now at CEFE in Montpellier (France)
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Dr. Ian Dublon (UK), chemist, now at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.
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Dr. Alok Arun (India), molecular biologist, now Principal Investigator at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico (USA).
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Dr. Stéphanie Heuskin (Belgium), chemist, now permanent staff at University of Liège-Gembloux (Belgium).
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Dr. Véronique Baumlé (France), molecular biologist, now at University of Namur (Belgium).
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Gilles san Martin (Belgium), assistant in Ecology, now permanent staff at Centre of Agricultural Research CRA-W (Belgium).
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Ellyn Bitume (USA), PhD student and then postdoc in the lab, now research entomologist at USDA-Forest service (USA).
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Paul Bacquet (France), PhD student, now believe it or not …brewing good beer around Brussels.
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Céline Deltenre (Belgium) Msc student in Evolutionary Ecology in 2020
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Loïc Smets (Belgium) Msc student in Evolutionary Ecology in 2020
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Marieke Louage (Belgium) Msc student in Science in Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology: Embedded Systems, in 2021. Main promotor is Prof. Steven Verstockt from Ghent University.
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Justine Belik, Lauren Lecourtois, Gianni Malica, Arkel Piret and Charlotte de Wulff, Msc students in Evolutionary Ecology in 2021
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Dilhan Ozturk and Manon Haillot (Belgium), Msc students in Evolutionary Ecology in 2020.