Research Funding Acknowledgments
2024 - 2025 ANSES - PROJECT OF STRATEGIC INTEREST co-led with David Ouvrard «Identification spécifique et origine géographique des insectes ravageurs invasifs : exploration d’une gamme d’outils moléculaires (ISOGEO)»
2024 LABEX CEMEB Post-doctoral Fellowship for Ahmadou Sow co-supervised with Karine Berthier & Thierry Brévault «A demo-genetic approach to identify environmental conditions favorable to the maintenance of pest populations on a territory scale outside the growing season»
2022–2023 AMI TSARA led by Karine Berthier and Julien Papaïx «Contribution of spatial process modeling to the development of innovative agroecological pest management strategies (MARA)»
2021 - 2025 CIRAD-ANR Doctoral Fellowship for Cécile Caumette co-supervised with Karine Berthier & Thierry Brévault «Interactions between spatio-temporal pest dynamics and agricultural landscapes' structure: at the service of integrated management deployed on a territorial scale (STATS)»
2021 - 2026 ANR PRC « Inferring pest dispersal in agricultural landscapes to improve management strategies (DISLAND)». French speakers will find more details on this project in an article published in the magazine "Passion Entomologie".
2020 - 2022 LABEX CEMEB - EXPLORATORY RESEARCH PROJECTS co-led with Raphaël Leblois «Proof of concept in landscape genomics: from NGS data production to demographic inferences (PRO-LAG)»
2020 - 2023 CIRAD-ANSES Doctoral Fellowship for Emeline Charbonnel co-supervised with David Ouvrard «Informing flow of agricultural pests related to trade transports: validation of high-throughput molecular tools for Bactrocera dorsalis tracking (BACTRACK)»
2020 - 2021 ORTHOPTERA SPECIES FILE GRANT co-leaded with Armelle Cœur d'Acier «Providing OSF with range maps, images of diagnostic characters and song records for the two cryptic species discovered within Calliptamus barbarus (Costa, 1836) (CRYCAL)»
2019 - 2023 ANR-JCJC led by Cyril Piou «Phase polyphenism emergence and associated risks (PEPPER)»
2018 - 2019 LABEX CEMEB - EXPLORATORY RESEARCH PROJECTS co-led with Elena Kazakou «Exploring domestication impacts on plant-insect-bacteria interactions (DINER)»
2018 ACTION INCITATIVE CIRAD - CREATIVITE ET INNOVATION SCIENTIFIQUES «Insect Microbiome Project : optimizing and standardizing bacterial metabarcoding methods for the study of insects, serving animal and plant health (IMP)»
2017 - 2021 ANR-PRC led by Patricia Gibert «Worldwide invasion of the spotted wing Drosophila: genetics, plasticity and evolutionary potential (SWING)»
2014 - 2015 ORTHOPTERA SPECIES FILE GRANT «An integrative taxonomic revision for the Calliptamus genus»
2011 - 2014 PROGRAMME EMPRES DE RECHERCHE OPERATIONNELLE SUR LE CRIQUET PELERIN EN REGION OCCIDENTALE led by Michel Lecoq «Thème de recherche 8 - Dynamique des populations - et Mission 2.3. - Développer une approche de biologie moléculaire du criquet pèlerin»
2007 - 2009 ARC LINKAGE PROJECT GRANT led by Gregory A. Sword «Australian plague locust population genetics and migratory behaviour»
Research Funding Rejections
Inspired from Melanie Stefan on the benefits of embracing and sharing failures, here are the research grant proposals in which I have been significantly involved and that were rejected:
2019 AI CIRAD - DOCTORANT DU NORD & BOURSE DE THESE INRA co-led with Benoît Facon «Characterizing microbiota of an invasive phytophagous insect and use for its management: the case of the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis »
2019 ANR-PRC «Inferring pest dispersal in agricultural landscapes to improve management strategies» (pre-proposal)
2018 MUSE - PROGRAMME DE SOUTIEN A LA RECHERCHE «Improving agro-ecological management of invasive plant pests by combining modeling, society and environmental science: the case of the invasive fly, Bactrocera dorsalis» (letter of intent)
2015 ANR JCJC co-led with Hélène Jourdan «Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of phase polyphenism in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria» (full proposal)
2015 NSF-PIRE led by Alexandre V. Latchininsky «Know your ancient agricultural enemy : novel and integrative approaches to prevent locust outbreaks in Central Asia and Russia» (full proposal)
2014 AGROPOLIS FONDATION (OPEN SCIENCE) «Metabarcoding serving agricultural biological control : a case study from unicellular organismes of the locust gut (MSA)»
2014 PARTENARIAT HUBERT CURIEN PROTEA (Campus France) co-led with John Terblanche «Comparative genetics and physiology of phase polyphenisms in destructive agricultural pest insects»
2013 ERAFRICA Interfacing Challenges led by Uta Berger «Food security in the context of climate change: mitigation and adaptation strategies for pest management»
2012 AGROPOLIS FONDATION (Open Science) «Heat shock proteins and elication of locust swarming phase (HELP)»
2012 PARTENARIAT HUBERT CURIEN PROTEA (Campus France) co-led with John Terblanche «Impacts of climate change on desert locust ecology, physiology and evolution»
2010 & 2011 NSF BREAD led by Gregory A. Sword «Local approaches to large-scale preventative locust management» (full proposals)