The CRCA is currently hosting as a Université Paul Sabatier invited professor, Prof. Rhiannon West. She will be at the CRCA until mid-November.

Rhiannon is professor of biology at Northern New Mexico College, in the small town of Española, New Mexico, USA.

Her research interest deals with the impact of the Major Histocompatibility Complex and the microbiome of the gut on behavioral decisions in fish – in particular the decisions related to mate choice and the implications of these decisions on fish speciation. Rhiannon is also very invoved in teaching (essentially undergraduates) in her host institution and she is interested in new teaching practices and in student exchanges.