Dates: October 1, 2024 – August 31, 2026
CBGP Managers: N. Rode & M. Gautier
Emilie Mendes will set up an experiment to test whether experimental populations of Drosophila suzukii raised for over 120 generations at CBGP are locally adapted to their respective fruit environments. She will carry out a competition experiment to compare the relative selective value of each population in the environment in which it has evolved versus selective values in other environments. Emilie will also maintain several D. suzukii lines whose genome has been sequenced. She will take part in several experiments aimed at estimating the rate of Wolbachia-induced sterility in males of different strains of D. suzukii.
During her Assistant engineer contract, she will be supervised mainly by Nicolas Rode, Mathieu Gautier and Candice Deschamps.