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Insect chemical ecology is a mature, long standing field, with its own journal. By contrast, insect physical ecology is much less studied and the worked scattered. Using work done in my group, I will highlight locomotion, both in granular materials like sand and at the water surface as well as sensing, in particular olfaction and flow sensing. The bio-inspired implementations in MEMS technologies will be the closing chapter.
Jérôme Casas (Université de Tours)
Professor
My research interests span physiology and ecology, including work on the physical ecology of insects; the physiology, behavior and population dynamics of consumer-resource interactions; the sensory ecology of mimetism; flow sensing; physico-chemical transport in olfaction and biologically- inspired micro-technology. One notable feature of my approach is the blending of natural history with both state-of-the-art technology and modeling. My group is composed of biologists, mathematicians, soft matter physicists and metrologists. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerome_Casas