Projects

Ongoing
  • Climats et systèmes multitrophiques  

    Climat and multitrophic systems

PDR FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) (2016-2020)

Partner Institution: ULg Gembloux

        P.I.: Detrain C., Lognay G, Verheggen F

Past
  • Analyse des interactions dans les systèmes multi trophiques : le cas des interactions entre la bactérie Serratia symbiotica, les pucerons hôtes et les fourmis

Analysis of interactions in multi-trophic systems: the case of interactions between the bacterium Serratia symbiotica, host aphids and ants

Funding 2020-2021 ULB

P.I.: Detrain C. in collaboration with Hance T. , Laboratory of Interaction Ecology and Biological Control, UCL

  • Avoidance of contaminated food as a main line of defense against pathogens in insect societies

L’évitement de ressources alimentaires contaminées: un mode essentiel de défense contre les pathogènes dans les sociétés d’insectes

CDR FRNS (National Fund for Scientific Research) (2018-2019)

P.I.: Detrain C.

  • Nest structure and socio-spatial organisation as key-components of collective sanitary strategies in ant societies

CDR FRNS (National Fund for Scientific Research) (2016-2017)

         P.I.: Detrain C.

  • Mutualisme fourmis-pucerons: stratégies adaptatives sous la pression de prédation et compétition

    Mutualism ant-aphids: adaptive strategies under the pressure of predation and competition

FRFC-FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) (2010-2014)

Partner Institution: ULg Gembloux

          P.I.: Detrain, Verheggen F

  • Mutualisme et vie sociale: l’interaction puceron-fourmi

    Mutualism and social life: the aphid-ant interaction

FRFC (National Fund for Scientific Research) (2009-2012)

Partner Institution: ULg Gembloux

          P.I.: Detrain C, Deneubourg JL, Haubruge E & Paquot M

  • Mitigating adverse ecological impacts of open ocean fisheries

Auto-organisation MADE – EUROPEAN COMMISSION

P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Sempo G

  • Communication and social organisation in two animal models 

FRFC (National Fund for Scientific Research)

Partner Institution: ULg Gembloux

          P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Detrain C, Sempo G, ULG, Poncin P, Vandewalle P

  • Cooperation & dispersal in haplo-diploid organisms

FRFC (National Fund for Scientific Research)

Partner Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)

           P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Detrain C, Mailleux AC, Hance T

  •  Symbiotic evolutionary robot organisms

SYMBRION – EUROPEAN COMMISSION

P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Halloy J

  • PICS Strasbourg Petit O (Strasbourg University)

  • Electronic tags used to track social animals

SILLAGES – NATIONAL RESEARCH AGENCY (France)

P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Sempo G, Canonge S (with Paris XIII, Fresneau D)

  • Study of the behavior and abundance of pelagic fish (in particular tunas): new electronic tags and new instrumented FADs (Fish Aggregating Devices)

FADIO EUROPEAN PROJECT

Promotors: Deneubourg JL, Halloy J

  • Development of a new generation of embodied agents that are able to interact directly (i.e. without human intervention) with the physical world and to communicate between them and with other agents (including humans)

  • ECAGENTS EUROPEAN PROJECT

         P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Halloy J, Millor J, Sempo G

  • Artificial life control in mixed-societies

LEURRE EUROPEAN PROJECT –  LEURRE

          P.I.: Deneubourg JL, Detrain C, Halloy J, Sempo G., Ame JM, Canonge S,   Depickère S

  • Design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts

SWARMBOT EUROPEAN PROJECT

P.I.: Deneubourg JL