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ERC Advanced Grant: Martin Giurfa awarded !
The CRCA is proud to announce that Martin Giurfa has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project : Cognition in an Insect Brain "COGNIBRAINS".
The architectural design of smart ventilation and drainage systems in termite nests
Termite nests have been widely studied as effective examples for ventilation and thermoregulation.
Aurore Avargues-Weber, bronze medal from the CNRS !
Each year, the CNRS celebrates researchers, engineers and technicians who make an exceptional contribution to the institution's dynamism and reputation.
The APICAMPUS project supports a thesis
Thibault Dubois (CRCA) beneficits from a PhD grant from the University Toulouse III- Paul Sabatier and a scholarship from the Macquarie University to study the “Impact of bee spatial strategies on colony dynamics”.
Diversity of "decision-making" in the blob
Audrey Dussutour and researchers from the Uppsala university (Sweden) demonstrated that even among unicellulars, there is a wide variety of behaviour in the ability to make good decisions.
Fruit flies can transmit their sexual preferences culturally
Researchers from the CNRS and université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UT3), including Guillaume Isabel from the CRCA, show that fruit flies possess all of the cognitive capacities needed to culturally transmit their sexual preferences across generations.
2018 CNRS Talent Ceremony
The CNRS-INSB Crystal Medal was awarded to Gérard LATIL, assistant engineer at CRCA.
Three PhD projects CIFRE
Three PhD projects CIFRE (Conventions Industrielles de Formation par la REcherche) between the CRCA and the industry have just been launched.
Basile COUTENS awarded at the "Workshops on Pharmacodependence and Addictovigilance"
The work of Basile COUTENS, a doctoral student in the REMEMBeR team, was rewarded at the "10th Workshops on Pharmacodependence and Addictovigilance" in Biarritz on 16 October 2018.
The domino effect in collective decisions of schools of fish
The study of mechanisms for coordinating the movement and propagation of information in schools of fish or flocks of birds, for example in the event of predator attacks, is essential to understanding the benefits of group living.