Science
Yellow Wasabi is fascinated by the mysterious sexual selection. It is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with. Yellow Wasabi is particularly interested by the visual/audio signal communication in pre-mating selection, how one individual receive and process the signal to make a choice. She will use genetics, bio-molecular tools, modelisations and machine learning to investigate this topic in eco-evo-devo view.
Formation
Workshop: Taxonomy in Big Data workshop. 2025.3.24-28 @MNHN, Paris, France
Workshop: New Caledonia Porifera (sponges) taxonomy workshop. 2024.12.2-13 @MNHN, Paris, France
Master 2: Biology & Health: Cell Signalization and Intergrative Neuronsciences. 2023-2024 @University of Paris-Saclay, France
Master 1: Biodiversity, Ecology & Evolution : Applied Ecology. Program IDIL. 2022-2023 @University of Montpellier, France
Bachelor: Sciences of Life: Biology of Organisms and Ecology. 2021-2022 @University of Paris-Saclay, France
Circadian gene evolution in Lepidoptera
| Jan – June 2024 | Supervisors : Violaine Llaurens, Joséphine Ledamoisel, Manuela Lopez-Villavicencio. Collège de France/Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle |
| Question: | The activity time of Lepidoptera differs between clades and sometimes differs between sexes within a species. Is there a positive selection on circadian genes? |
| Methods: | Braker: Annotation of genome |
| MAFFT: Aligning nuleotide or proteine sequences | |
| Iqtree: Phylogenetics | |
| My script in R: Study the structure of gene | |
| PALM: Modelisation of positive selection | |
| Communications: | Comming soon |
Human vocal and facial attractiviness
| Jan – June 2023 | Supervisors : Michel Raymond, Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Claire Berticat. ISEM Institut des sciences de l’évolution de Montpellier, Lab Anthropologie Évolutive |
| Question: | What we eat changes our physiology through hormones and then changes our voice and face. Does diet have an influence on vocal and facial attractiveness? |
| Methods: | Food survey: collection of subjects’ and judges’ diets |
| Glycemic load table: calculation of blood sugar as a proxy of hormones from food | |
| Audacity & Praat + my script: phonetic analysis, extrait voice parameters | |
| JS, HTML, PHP, SQL: presentation of voices and faces to judges | |
| GLM in R: modeling to find the most important factors | |
| Communications: | European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association 2023 in London; Clinical Phonetics Days in Toulouse. |
Water Strider sex antagonism morphology gene
| May- July 2022 | Supervisor : Abderrahman Khila. IGFL, Institut De Génomique Fonctionnelle De Lyon |
| Question: | The water spider Gerris odontogaster uses a tab at the end of the abdomen in males and a protige in females for sexual antagonism. Which gene controls this phenotype? |
| Methods: | DNA extraction: obtaining candidate genes |
| Microbial culture: transformation of plasmid vectors | |
| Micro-injection: application of Knock-out ANR interference | |
| Communications: | Comming soon |
Black Soldier Fly polygenous assortative mating
| April-July 2021 | Supervisor : Christophe Bressac. IRBI, UMR 7261 CNRS, Tours, France |
| Question: | Black soldier flies are high in protein and mass-raised as fodder. To better manage their reproduction, is there assortative mating? |
| Methods: | Image J and my script: morphometric measurement as an index of quality in sexual selection |
| Marking system: my creation, monitoring individuals and their matings | |
| Fine dissection: highlighting spermathecae | |
| Influorescent staining: counting sperms | |
| Communications: | Sperm management along multiple mating in males and females of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Venon*, Yang* et al. (2024) submitted to Entomologia experimentalis et applicata (first co-author) |
| 15th International Ecology & Behaviour in Strasbourg； 2022 International Branch Meeting of Entomological Society of America |
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