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Rigaud Thierry

DR CNRS HDR
Équipe éco évo
Bureau : 309 A, 3e étage, aile nord
Téléphone : 39 45
E-mail : thierry.rigaud@u-bourgogne.fr

Laboratoire Biogéosciences

CNRS, UMR 6282

Université de Bourgogne

6 bd Gabriel

21000 Dijon, France

 

Academic background

  • Graduate studies in Université de Poitiers – 1987

  • DEA (MSc) in Population Biology & Eco-Ethology, Université de Tours – 1988

  • PhD in Population Biology, Université de Tours – 1991

  • Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université de Poitiers – 1999

 

Positions

  • 1992 – 2001 Chargé de Recherche au CNRS, Université de Poitiers

  • 2001 – 2003 Chargé de Recherche au CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon

  • 2003 – present Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon

 

Research interests

My main research interests are in the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions, focusing on the diversity of parasite’s strategies of host exploitation and the consequences on host population biology. The main topics of my studies are about:

  • Manipulation of host sex ratio. I’m interested in vertically-transmitted parasites (Wolbachia (my former favorite parasite!) , microsporidia) as reproductive parasites of their crustacean hosts, their consequences on host reproductive strategies.

  • Manipulation of host behaviour. The model organisms are acanthocephalan parasites, infecting freshwater crustacean intermediate hosts. I’m interested in investigating the causes for the variability observed in the manipulation (genetics, environment).

  • Conflicts between manipulative parasites. How do parasites with different transmission strategies coexist in a single host? Are there conflicts and how are they expressed? What are the consequences for the host? I try to address these questions by studying the above-cited parasites.

  • The role of biological invasions in evolutionary ecology of host-parasite relationships. The model organisms are the invasive amphipods and their parasites.

  • More recently, I also began projects on sea urchins and their symbionts: (1) to understand the role of ectosymbiosis on benthic biodiversity in Antarctica; (2) to understand how the life cycle of ectosymbiotic crab is shared between two hosts.

Gammarus roeseli

 

Publications: please visit the following sites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thierry_Rigaud

http://www.researcherid.com.inee.bib.cnrs.fr/rid/T-4053-2017

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0163-6639

https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=H1d7RVAAAAAJ&hl=fr

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