Invited Conferences
2003 : Workshop « Colline » (Collective, Interaction, Emergence) “Collective displacements : the balance between conflict and cooperation” (TOULOUSE, FRANCE)
2007 : Workshop of the Centre for Mathematical Biology - University of Sydney “Moving in the crowd : Ants hold the key to traffic chaos.” (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)
2008 : Workshop on Modelling Complex Biological Systems “Moving in the crowd : Ants hold the key to traffic chaos.” (UPPSALA, SWEDEN).
2009 : International Ethology Conference. “Communal nutrition in ants : The collective mouth and gut” (RENNES, FRANCE).
2010 : XVII International Summer School “Nicolás Cabrera” : Summer School on Self-Organization “Ants hold the key of traffic chaos” and “Self-organization in social insects” (MADRID, ESPAGNE).
2011 : Congress of the Union for the Study of Social Insect, North-European section “Communal nutrition in ants : The collective mouth and gut” (BRIGHTON, UK).
2011 : Workshop : Insect Self-organization and Swarming (March 14-18, 2011 Mathematical Biosciences institute “Ants hold the key of traffic chaos” (Columbus, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, ETATS-UNIS).
2011 : Workshop : Problem Solving by Slime Moulds, Mathematics Department, Uppsala University “Decision making and competitive foraging in slime molds” (UPPSALA, SWEDEN).
2013 : International Nutrition workshop ‘Mechanisms of Insect Nutritional Homeostasis’ at the University of Bonn's LIMES institute “Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high−protein diet” (BONN, GERMANY).
2013 : International Nutrition and Aging Workshop “Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high−protein diet” (LONDON, UK).
2013 : Chaos, Solitons and Fractals International Conference “Flexibility in collective decision-making by ants colonies” (ANSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS).
2014 : XVII congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insect “Nutritional homeostasis from individuals to insect societies” (CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA).
2014 : Conference Development and Unicellularity. Université Paris Sorbonne, Maison de la Recherche. “Behavioral phenotypes and complex intercellular interactions in the true slime mold” (PARIS, FRANCE).
2015 : International social insect behaviour workshop. Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Foundation. “Ants hold the key of traffic chaos” (LISBON, PORTUGAL).
2015 : IV Central European Meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects “Recent Advances in the Integrative Nutrition of Ants” (LICHTENFELS, GERMANY).
2016 : Society for Experimental Biology conference (BRIGHTON, UK) “The Role of Individual Variation in the Behaviour of Animal Groups”.
2015 : Collective dynamics and model verification : Connecting kinetic modeling to data. International workshop. “Ants hold the key of traffic chaos” (PHOENIX, USA).
2015 : Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium, Perspective on social behavior. Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Foundation. “Physarum polycephalum : when simple is not so simple” (LISBON, PORTUGAL).
2016 : Collective Motion Workshop at the University of Uppsala “Efficient traffic regulation on foraging trails in the Argentine ant” (UPPSALA, SWEDEN).
2017 : Distributed agents workshop, “Direct transfer of learned behaviour via cell fusion in non-neural organisms” (LONDON, UK).
2017 : Ento’2017 - Royal Entomological Society. “Recent Advances in the Integrative Nutrition of Ants” (NEWCASTLE, UK).
2017 : Workshop : Liquid brains, Solid brains - John Templeton “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” (SANTA FE, USA)
2018 : ASAB meeting - “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” (Plymouth, UK)
2018 : 31e congrés de l’Association Française d’Histotechnologie “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” (Toulouse, France).
2018 : Physnet workshop “Basal cognition in slime molds” (BREMEN, GERMANY).
2018 : 37th Altenberg Workshop, “The Ground-floor of Cognition : From Microbes to Animals and Plants” (VIENNA, AUSTRIA).
2018 : 6th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop - Evolution, Cognition and Rationality. “Habituation in unicellular organisms” (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2018 : Workshop on Collective Behavior “Decision making in non-neural organisms” (TRIESTE, ITALIE).
2019 : International Conference 14th Evolution & Behaviour Meeting “Habituation in unicellular organisms” (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2019 : International Workshop Nutritional Homeostasis Workshop 2019 “Nutrition and Infection in Ants” (BONN, GERMANY).
2020 : Royal Society meeting : Collective animal behaviour through time “Early Behavioral Plasticity in slime molds” (LONDON, UK).
2020 : International Workshop Collective Decision-Making meeting “Collective decision in ants” (SHEFFIELD, UK).
Invited Seminar
2002 : “ Recruitement organization in ants : the case of traffic congestion” Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2003 : “Ants recruitement : an example of self-organization” Research Institute of Mammals Behaviour, INRA. (CASTANET, FRANCE).
2003 : “Self-organization and traffic regulation in ants” Laboratory of Acquisition and Transmission of Motor Abilities, University Paul Sabatier (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2004 : “Spatio-temporal organization of collective displacements in ants” CENOLI, Free University of Brussels (BRUSSELS, BELGIUM).
2005 : “Moving in the crowd : Ants hold the key to traffic chaos.” Ecology Department, University of Concordia (MONTREAL, CANADA).
2006 : “Moving in the crowd : Ants hold the key to traffic chaos.” ARC Centre for Complex Systems, University of Queensland (BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA).
2009 : “Ants nutrition : the collective mouth and gut” Centre de recherches sur la cognition animale, Université Paul Sabatier. (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2010 : “Nutrition : from unicellulars to colonies” School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA).
2010 : “Nutrition : from unicellulars to colonies” Faculty of Sciences, Macquarie University (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA).
2011 : “Nutrition : from unicellulars to colonies” Université catholique de Louvain (LOUVAIN, BELGIUM).
2011 : “Nutrition : from unicellulars to colonies” Systematic Department, Uppsala University (UPPSALA, SWEDEN).
2011 : “Decision making and competitive foraging in slime molds” CENOLI, Free University of Brussels (BRUSSELS, BELGIUM).
2012 : “Decision making and competitive foraging in slime molds” Future University of Hakodate (HAKODATE, JAPAN).
2012 : “Nutrition : from unicellulars to colonies” Math Department, Uppsala University (UPPSALA, SWEDEN).
2012 : “Moving in the crowd : Ants hold the key to traffic chaos”. CEMES (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2013 : “Link between nutrition and longevity in social insect” FRBT, Université Paul Sabatier (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2013 : “Communal nutrition in ants : The collective mouth and gut”. Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte IRBI, Université de Tours (TOURS, FRANCE).
2013 : “Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high-protein diet”. Ecology department, Lausanne university (LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND).
2015 : “Recent Advances in the Integrative Nutrition of Ants” Biology department, Regensburg University (REGENSBURG, GERMANY)
2015 : “Physarum polycephalum : when simple is not so simple “ Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Bath (BATH, UK)
2016 : “Collective nutritional wisdom : from slime moulds to ant colonies”, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield. (SHEFIELD, Uk)
2016 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” - Department of Signalling, Neurobiology & Cancer. Institut Curie. (PARIS, FRANCE).
2017 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” - IMMUNOLOGY from CONCEPT and EXPERIMENTS to TRANSLATION UMR 5164 – University of Bordeaux. (BORDEAUX, FRANCE)
2017 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” - Life Sciences Research Seminars. (BRISTOL, UK)
2017 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” - Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. (OXFORD, UK)
2018 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” - Neuropsy. (PARIS, FRANCE).
2018 : “Integrative Nutrition in Ants.” Laboratoire ETHOS - Université de Rennes (RENNES, FRANCE).
2018 “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – Ecole Polytechnique (PARIS, FRANCE).
2018 “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – Unité Géoscience. Université de Bourgogne (DIJON, FRANCE).
2018 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – CEMES (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2018 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – CBI (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2018 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – CBI (BREME, ALLEMAGNE).
2018 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Centre d’étude de la Faune Sauvage, (CASTANET, FRANCE).
2019 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – CNES (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2019 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” – Ecole Ponts et Chaussés (PARIS, FRANCE).
2019 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” at the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology (BERGEN, NORWAY).
2019 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Institut Jacques Monod, (PARIS, FRANCE).
2019 : “Problem solving in Distributed Systems” – INSTITUT DE MATHS (TOULOUSE, FRANCE).
2019 : “Decision making and learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Department of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Bern (BERN, SWITZERLAND).
2019 : “Learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds.” INU Champollion Biochimie et Toxicologie des Substances Bioactives (ALBI, FRANCE).
2019 : “Decision making and learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Institut de Biologie Structurale (GRENOBLE, FRANCE).
2020 : “Decision making and learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Faculty of Biology of the Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich (MUNICH, GERMANY).
2020 : “Decision making and learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Centre for Research in Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour, Roehampton university (LONDON, UK).
2020 : “Decision making and learning in brainless organisms : evidence from slime molds” Unité Biotechnologie, Biocatalyse, Biorégulation (NANTES, FRANCE).