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.