5th Annual Meeting - FRESH Réseau Thématique Pluridisciplinaire
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Meeting with Bernard Lahire
Sociologist Bernard Lahire, director of CNRS research at the Max-Weber Center in...
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Are you a woman who would like to contribute to menstrual cycle research?
Study objective: Evaluate the impact of environmental and lifestyle factors on the menstrual cycles of women living in Occitanie. More info coming soon
Oxytocin and childbirth
Oxytocin is involved in a variety of biological functions, including family and social bonding, the mother-child relationship, lactation and the regulation of stress response. It also plays a crucial role during labor and delivery by stimulating uterine contractions. During childbirth, the administration of...
Developmental Origin of Endometriosis (EnDOHAD)
Endometriosis is a frequent, largely hereditary pathology, but it is also subject to environmental influences: it can be influenced by the age of the first menstrual period or exposure to chemical substances that alter the endocrine system. This heterogeneity makes it a particular challenge to diagnose and treat the disease effectively. New perspectives...
Tsaobis Baboon Project
The Tsaobis Baboon Project is a long-term study (>20 years) of a population of chacma baboons in Namibia, on the bangs of the Namib Desert. Our work is carried out in affiliation with the Gobabeb Namib Research Institute. The aim of the Tsaobis Baboon Project is to conduct fundamental research into the ecology...
The Mandrillus Project
The Mandrillus project (www.projetmandrillus.com) studies the socio-ecology of the world's only habituated population of wild mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx). The population lives in a mosaic of savannahs and equatorial forests in southern Gabon (Parc de la Lékédi). Since 2012, researchers, students and field assistants...
Voice
While it may appear to be the preferred medium for verbal communication, the voice is not simply a tool for mediating semantic information...
Menstrual cycle and COVID
At the start of the pandemic, there were only a handful of articles on the link between infection and menstrual cycles...Since then, our team has contributed several articles on the links between COVID, vaccines and menstrual cycles...
Genetic adaptation to risk
The aim of this project is to study risk-taking behavior, the possibility of local adaptation to a risky environment, and the genes involved in this local adaptation.
Nutrition and disease in humans
During the 20th century, a substantial change in diet took place in Westernized countries. Industrialized foods were developed, with the introduction of highly processed refined products, in particular refined carbohydrates (processed, rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, including starches and refined sugars such as sucrose,...
Empathy for other species
Rich, diversified and complex, the range of emotions we feel when we come into contact with other organisms is the very image of biodiversity.
organisms is the very image of biodiversity.
Evolution of male homosexual preference
Homosexual orientation is a Darwinian paradox, because it is heritable and associated with a high reproductive cost, while being relatively common, for both males and females. Not described in wild animal species, homosexual preference seems to be confined to the human species, even though it is not present in...