Research Topics
The grass is always greener on the other side
It's in our own interest that our main impact should be intellectual and not ecological. Let's try to "green" our own research and spread what we know. In France, there is a collective effort to green research called
labos1point5. Greening activities has become an official governmental strategy and whatever we will save can be invested in the military.
Adaptation
Adaptation is a concept that predates evolutionary biology. I try to adapt concepts from
Adaptive Dynamics to a changing world and make them useable in a wider sense.
GO Comparative GO!
Many predictions made by evolutionary dynamical models should be tested in a comparative context, comparing different populations and species. The toolbox for such comparative analysis is still much in development (which is fun).
Since 1998 next to the kitchen and between 2006 and 2019 more seriously, I have established a lab system for comparative analysis,
Austrolebias South-American annual killifish species. They're great! They're small (most of them)! They're fast! They're slow! They are many! They're in the kitchen again!
Toying around with inputs
The development of individuals is a continual process taking time and requiring individuals to stay whole. It happens in a world providing inputs and resources, consumed or not. These inputs are external and internal, and with different temporal and spatial patterns.
I try to understand their interactions with individuals to determine whether individual development is adapted and to what it would be so.
Beatiful tools are a pleasure to use
I can start drooling when thinking of a useful partial derivative, a modified plastic bottle or a handy microdrill. Ruperto Urzua once taught me how to turn an old file into a very good woodengraving tool. That's what I call job satisfaction! An orchid I grow and one fern variety are already with me since 1989. Prepare for the long haul.
