Julien Cote

I am a research director (CNRS, DR2) at the department of Research Center on Biodiversity and Environment CRBE UMR5300, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). CV

Emma Fromm (PhD student)

Emma is working on the changes of diversity in lizards’ gut with climatic conditions over time, the underlying evolutionary drivers (fluctuating selection and plasticity) and ecological drivers (mating, feeding, buddying), as well as the cosnequences of these changes on lizards adaptation and community dynamics in warmer climates. Supervised with Lucie Zinger.

Nicolas Mouret (PhD student)

Nicolas will work on climate-induced changes of behavioral variation among individuals, their ontogeny and senescence of common lizards and invertebrate prey species at different trophic levels. Supervised with Elvire Bestion and Mathieu Paquet.

Maylis Wangermez (PhD student)

Nicolas will investigate the physiological and microbiome disturbance processes associated with the acceleration of the life history strategy in common lizards exposed to thermal stress, with the ultimate goal to understand consequences on the viability of natural populations. Supervised with Jean-François Le Galliard and Sandrine Meylan.

Lucie Di Gesu (Project Manager)

Lucie successfully managed the ERC project for technical and administratives tasks. She managed the sampling of invertebrates, plants and soil communities, helped me coordinating the different tasks fo the climate warming experiment, supervised the coordination between sampling analyses and team members and managed the 10 years long database and the funding. Unfortunately, our national researcher institute prevents people to be hired more than 5 years any research contracts from any research groups included. Depsite her great organizational and research skills, Lucie was unfortunately forced to find opportunities somewhere else than our research institute.

Léa Beaumelle (Postdoctoral fellow)

Léa worked on warming-induced changes of aboveground & belowground communities, their interactions and their consequences on ecosystem functions. Supervised with Lucie Zinger.

Luis M San Jose (Postdoctoral fellow)

Luis analyzed our genomic (DNA-seq & RNA-seq ) and phenotypic databasis to study 1) the genetic determinants of dispersal and dispersal color syndromes and 2) the adaptation to warmer climates.

Oriane Bousquet–Lagarrigue (M2 student)

Oriane analyzed a controlled mating experiment looking for climate effects on lizards sexual behaviors, including mating rates and mate choice, and the consequences on gut microbiota. Supervised with Elvire Bestion and Emma Fromm.

Jehan Cribellier (Study Engineer)

Jehan helped us in our warming experiments for capturing, rearing, phenotyping (thermal traits, coloration, behaviors, microbiota, morphology…), and genotyping lizards.

Elodie Darnet (Study Engineer)

Elodie helped us in our warming experiments, meaning the usual spring/summer schedule: capturing (lizards), rearing, phenotyping (thermal traits, coloration, behaviors, microbiota, morphology…), genotyping, releasing, monitoring, recapturing and so on.

Léa Dasque (Master student)

Léa worked, under Luis’ supervision, on the influences of warmer climates on lizards and newts gene expressions and how it could explain thermal phenotypic changes and acclimation.

Marine Güell (Master student)

Marine worked on the influences of conspecific densities in maternal population on offspring phenotype at birth and throughout their lifetime. Supervised by Mathieu Paquet, Elvire Bestion and me.

Bénédicte Lalot (Technician)

Bénédicte is helping us in preparing soil and plants samples from the Metatron mesocosms before stoichometry analyses.

Anne-Sophie Benoiston

(Research Engineer)

Anne-Sophie was running bioinformatic analyses on the belowground communities of microorganisms in the metatron. It will allow us to study the consequences of our warming experiments on community dynamics and belowground-aboveground interactions. She was also help organizing the measure of soil main functions this year. She will now start a new jow at the department as a bioinformatic engineer!