Evo-Eco-Paleo laboratory

EEP | UMR 8198
Biology and health Observation and environment, lasers and their applications Research unit Science for a changing planet

The scientific objective of our laboratory is to advance the understanding of the origin and evolution of biodiversity and paleo-biodiversity, in particular with respect to environmental changes at various temporal scales. Our laboratory has extensive expertise in population genetics and genomics, evolutionary ecology, paleontology, paleoecology and eco-immunology, and develops research projects that integrate modeling, experimentation, molecular, phenotypic and floristic data acquisition, as well as biostatistical and bioinformatics analyses. The unit consists of two teams: the Evolution & Ecology team and the Paleontology team.

Informations

Director: Xavier Vekemans

http://eep.univ-lille.fr/fr
https://twitter.com/Evo_Eco_Paleo

Bâtiment SN2, Avenue Mendeleïev
Campus Cité Scientifique, Université de Lille
59655 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ

Mots-clés

Environment, Biodiversity, Evolutionary ecology, Evolutionary genomics, Paleontology, Paleo-ecology, Eco-immunology, Species, Evolution, Adaptation

Localisation

  • Evolution of reproductive systems in plants and its consequences on genome evolution
  • Evolution of paleo-biodiversity in relation to changes of the environment
  • Identification of acclimation or adaptation processes in populations of plants and marine annelids in response to recent global changes
  • Dynamics of mutualistic interaction networks including plant-pollinator networks
  • Reconstitution of paleo-ecosystems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Morphological evolution

Examples of projects:

  • ERC Consolidator NOVEL project "Emergence of novel phenotypes in co-evolving biological systems: allelic diversification and dominance at the Self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis"
  • CNRS 80_PRIME project EnviroMolSed "Reconstructing Plio-Pleistocene hydrosystemsin the Omo-Turkana Basinwith integrative studies of sedimentology and freshwater mollusks"
  • CPER CLIMIBIO project "Changement climatique, Dynamique de l'atmosphère, Impacts sur la biodiversité et la santé humaine"
  • ANR EARTHGREEN project "Comprendre le verdissement de la Terre primitive"
  • Extraction of micro-fossils (including palynomorph fossils) and preparation for their observation
  • Observation and image processing of fossil and current organisms (SEM, 3D scanner)
  • Cultures in experimental greenhouses (Greenhouses platform, experimental crops and land)

Our unit has the following infrastructures:

  • a paleontology research library
  • scientific collections (paleobotany, micropaleontology)
  • molecular biology and biochemistry equipment
  • paleontological analysis and preparation equipment
  • observation equipment (SEM, microscopes, stereomicroscope)

See the detailed list of equipment.

Biological materials

  • Collections of living plants and seeds for different species studied in the unit
  • Paleontological collections

Private
AFIDOL, Bureau d'études OGE, Keygene (Netherlands), SESVanderHave (Belgium)

Academic
ENS Lyon; Lab. De Géologie de Lyon; LGDP Perpignan; LBBE Lyon; INRA Rennes; Ecole Polytechnique; ISYEB MNHN; CR2P MNHN; CEFE Montpellier; ISEM Montpellier; ECOBIO Rennes; ESE Orsay; Biogéosciences Dijon; LEMAR Brest; CEREGE Poitiers
Natural History Museum of Berlin (Germany), Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg (Germany), Max Planck Potsdam (Germany), Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), The University of Queensland (Australia), Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles (Belgium), Ghent University (Belgium), Meise Botanic Garden (Belgium), University of Liège (Belgium), Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), McGill University (Canada), University of Toronto (Canada), UC Davis (USA), Colorado state University (USA), University of Nevada Reno (USA), Ohio University (USA), Indiana University (USA), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Tokyo (Japan), Ehime University (Japan), Shiba University (Japan), Institute of Biophysics (Czech Republic), University of Edinburgh (UK), Durham University (UK), University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

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