Projects

Ongoing

 

  • Lien entre les défenses individuelles face aux pathogènes et les stratégies collectives de résistance et de tolérance chez deux espèces de fourmis au mode de vie contrasté.

Linking individual defenses against pathogens to collective strategies of resistance and tolerance in two ant species with contrasted lifestyle.

CDR FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) (2023-2026)

P.I.: Detrain C.

 

 

  • 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

 

 

 

Past

 

  • 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

 

 

  • 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