Keynote speakers

Biodiversity :

Xavier Bonnet is the head master of the Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (Center of study on biology from Chizé, France). His work focuses mainly on reptiles co-evolution of acquisition systems and manadgment of ressources and reproductive strategies in vertebrates. He also works on reptiles conservation

Earth and Planetary sciences :

Gweltaz Maheo, researcher at the Lyon 1 University, is working on lithosphere structure and dynamic.

Humanities and Natural Sciences :

Margareta Tengberg, is head master of the lab "Archéozoologie-Archéobotanique" of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Her research interests are mainly focused on agricultural economies in the Near and Middle Eastern past civilizations and on domestication process of plants.

Systematics :

Jean-François Flot, associate professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, is interested in molecular systematics and genome evolution in tropical corals, cave amphipods and bdelloid rotifers.

Evolutionary ecology:

Mathieu Joron is head master of the Genetic and Evolutive Ecology in the CEFE (Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive) in Montpellier.

Methods:

Sylvain Gerber is researcher at the MNHN. He is a macroevolutionary biologist, interested in large-scale morphological evolution and in the multiple processes that underlie its dynamics.