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Alison Duncan: competition and mutual aid in parasites

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Alison Duncan is a researcher in evolutionary ecology at the Institut des sciences de l'évolution de Montpellier (ISEM). To better understand the dynamics of epidemics, she works on interactions between parasites and between hosts and parasites. In 2022, she was awarded the Mariano Gago springboard prize for bilateral cooperation between France and Portugal. 

Robots becoming ever closer to humans

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February 28, 2023

Our society is changing. More and more, we're welcoming a new species into our midst. The...

Oussama Khatib: diving into robotics

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With his Ocean One robotic diver-archaeologist, Stanford Robotics Lab director and world-renowned researcher Oussama Khatib turns the spotlight on the mysteries of the deep and robotics. On February 20, on the recommendation of his French peers Philippe Poignet, Vincent Creuze and Philippe Fraisse, all three robotics researchers at Lirmm, the Franco-American received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier.