1977-1981 | Ingénieur Agronome from Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, Specialization in Crop Protection |
1982 | Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in Neurophysiology, Université de Paris VI |
1985 | Docteur-Ingénieur thesis on "Chemosensory organs and electroantennography on European corn borer" |
1998 | Habilitation à diriger les recherches (HDR), University of Orsay |
1981-1992 | Assistant professor (Assistant) at Institut National
Agronomique Paris-Grignon (AgroParisTech); research at "L.N.C.I." INRA / CNRS laboratory at Bures-sur-Yvette. |
1992-1998 | Associate professor (Maître de Conférences) at
AgroParisTech; research at INRA "Médiateurs Chimiques" in Versailles. |
1998-2005 | Professor of Zoology at INA P-G (PR2) |
2005- | Professor of Zoology at INA P-G (PR1) |
2009- | Adjunct Professor of Entomology at Penn State University (PA, USA) |
1986 | sabbatical year at the Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology (Tucson, AZ, USA) with Dr. Tom Tobin |
1999 | sabbatical year at Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) with Dr. Gert Stange. |
1981 | INRA Versailles - study Zyginidia scutellaris
(Typhlocybinae, Auchenorrhyncha) with Dr W. Della Giustina; DAA thesis
in crop protection. -> anatomy, biology, EPG |
1982-83 | Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées
(Percy hospital and Natural History Museum, with Dr Max Goyffon, on
Androctonus australis (Scorpionidae, Arachnida) ; DEA thesis in
neurobiology -> anatomy of the claws, muscular system of the cephalothorax, extracellular recordings and computer analysis of these recordings; programming on IN110 signal analysis devoted computers). |
1984-1986 | INRA Station de Bures-sur-Yvette with Dr Claudine Masson
(CNRS); Docteur-Ingenieur Thesis on Ostrinia nubilalis. -> anatomy; oviposition site selection behaviour; electroantennography; computer programming of Apple II (Basic, assembly language) for analysis of EAG recordings. |
1986 | sabbatical year at the Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology (Tucson, AZ, USA) with Tom Tobin |
1987-1994 | INRA Station de Bures-sur-Yvette with Dr Claudine Masson
(CNRS); research associate. -> EAG electrophysiology (Ostrinia, Lobesia botrana, Apis mellifera); GC-EAD; computer programming; video-tracking of honeybees in a four-arms olfactometer |
1995-1998 | INRA Station de Phytopharmacie et Médiateurs Chimiques
at Versailles with Dr C. Descoins; research associate. -> taste electrophysiology; computer programming; electronics (tasteprobe amplifier design); pulsed GC-EAD. |
1999 | sabbatical year at Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) with Gert Stange. |
2000- | UMR Physiologie de l'Insecte: Signalisation et
Communication, INRA Versailles -> phytoecdysteroids and insect plants relations; computer programming; Drosophila taste. |
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