Vincent Debat
CONTACT
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Département Systématique et Evolution
UMR7205 Origine Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité
45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 79 30 54 Fax: +33 (0)1 40 79 56 79 
Email: debat(at)mnhn.fr

EMPLOYMENTS AND DIPLOMA
2006 -  Assistant professor (tenure) MNHN, Paris
2004-2006 Post-doct University of Manchester, UK (CP Klingenberg)
2002-2003 Post-doct University of California Riverside, USA (DA Roff)
2001-2002 Teaching postdoc (ATER) UniversitéParis 7/CNRS Gif sur Yvette (JR David)
1997-2000 PhD Evolutionary Biology Université Montpellier II (JC Auffray)
1996-1997 Master (DEA) Université Montpellier II (JC Auffray)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial board of Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Reviewing editor)

Reviewer for the following journals
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; BMC Evolutionary Biology; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Genetica; Heredity; Infection Genetics and Evolution; Integrative and Comparative Biology; Journal of Evolutionary Biology; Journal of Genetics; Journal of Heredity; Journal of Insect Physiology; Mammalia; Naturwissenschaften; Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology; Trends in Ecology and Evolution; Zootaxa
Books: Springer; Book chapters: Wiley-Blackwell;Springer;  Grants: ANR

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009- : ATM formes
2008 : ANR Macrocentrus
2006-2007  Marie Curie reintegration grant (40 k€)
2003-2005 Marie Curie Intra european postdoctoral fellowship (200 k€)
2002 : Marie Curie Intra european postdoctoral fellowship Financement décliné
2002 : bourse post-doctorale Lavoisier Financement décliné
1997-2000 : allocation doctorale MENRT
1995 : bourse Fondation Elf (10 kF)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Museum:
PhD students: Morphométrie et analyse des formes; Analyse de la variation morphologique; Analyse des données
Master students:  Introduction aux statistiques; Statistiques multivariées et analyse de données; Modélisation des formes et analyse des données morphométriques; De l'ADN à la biodiversité: Régulations lors de la morphogenèse;  Anglais scientifique;

ENS: G by E interactions
University Paris VI: Epigenetics and evolution

DIVERSE RESPONSABILITIES - AFFILIATIONS
Supervisor of 5 Master students –  1 Postdoc (Nelly Gidaszewski)

Elected member conseil scientifique du Muséum
Elected member conseil scientifique du Département Systématique et Evolution
Elected member  conseil scientifique de l’UMR 7205 (2006-2010)
Member comité scientifique du GDR 2474 Morphométrie et Evolution des Formes (2006-2008)

Founding member of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED)
Member of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Communications
12 communications en congrès internationaux (9 communications orales et 3 posters).

Organization
2008 2nd European congress for Evolutionary Developmental biology. (Ghent, Belgium).
Co-organiser (with Dr T. Van Dooren) of the symposium “Canalization, robustness and developmental stability”
2005 10th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. (Krakow, Poland)
Co-organizer  (with Dr C. J. Breuker) of the symposium “Functional Evo-devo”

PUBLICATIONS (h index = 10)

Peer reviewed papers 

David J.R., A. Yassin, L.A. Razamizafi, L.H. Raveloson Ravaomanarivo and V. Debat (2011). Scratching for food: an original feeding behavior in an African flower breeding Drosophila. Fly (in press).

Debat V, S. Bloyer, F. Faradji, N. Gidaszewski, N. Navarro, P. Orozco-terWengel, V. Ribeiro, C. Schlötterer, J. S. Deutsch and F. Peronnet. (2011) Developmental Stability: a Major Role for Cyclin G in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics 7(10): e1002314. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002314

Zimmermann G., N. Améziane, P. Bosc, R. Cornette, P. Valade and V. Debat. (2011) Geometric morphometrics of carapace of Macrobrachium australe (Crustacea: Palaemonidae) from Reunion Island. Acta Zoologica DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2011.00524.x

Klingenberg, C.P., V. Debat and D.A. Roff. (2010)  Quantitative genetics of shape in cricket wings: developmental integration in a functional structure. Evolution 64-10: 2935–2951

Debat, V. A. Debelle and I Dworkin. (2009) Plasticity, canalization and developmental stability of the Drosophila wing: joint effects of mutations and of developmental temperature Evolution 63-11: 2864–2876

Debat V., Cornette R., Korol A. B., Nevo E., Soulet D. and David J. R. (2008) Multidimensional Analysis of Drosophila wing variation in Evolution Canyon. Journal of Genetics 87, 407–419

Loh, R., J.R. David, V. Debat and B.C. Bitner-Mathé. (2008). Adaptation to different climates results in divergent phenotypic plasticity of wing size and shape in an invasive drosophilid. Journal of Genetics. 87, 209–217

Volobouev, V., J.C. Auffray, V. Debat, C. Denys, J.C. Gautun and M. Tranier. (2007) Species delimitation in the Acomys cahirinus - dimidiatus complex (Rodentia, Muridae) inferred from chromosomal and morphological analyses. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 91: 203-214

Debat, V., C. C. Milton, S. L. Rutherford, A. A. Hoffmann and C. P. Klingenberg (2006). Hsp90 and the quantitative variation of wing shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. 60(12): 2529–2538

Breuker, C. J., V. Debat and C. P. Klingenberg (2006). Functional Evo devo. Trends in Ecology and Evolution,  21 (9): 488-492

Pétavy,G., J.R. David, V. Debat, C. Pertoldi and B. Moreteau (2005). Phenotypic and genetic variability of sternopleural bristle number of Drosophila melanogaster under daily thermal stresses: developmental instability and antisymmetry. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8: 149-167.

Bégin, M., D. A. Roff and V. Debat (2004). The effects of temperature and wing morphology on the quantitative genetic variation of morphological traits in the sand cricket. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 1255-1267.

Ayrinhac, A., V. Debat, P. Gibert, A.-G. Kister, H. Legout, B. Moreteau, R. Vergilino and J. R. David (2004). Cold tolerance in temperate and tropical populations of Drosophila melanogaster: respective roles of genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity. Functional Ecology 18: 700-706.

Pétavy, G., J. R. David, V. Debat, P. Gibert and B. Moreteau. (2004) Specific effects of cycling stressful temperatures upon phenotypic and genetic variability of size traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 873-890.

Debat, V., M. Bégin, H. Legout and J. R. David. (2003) Allometric and non-allometric components of Drosophila wing shape respond differently to developmental temperature. Evolution 57(12): 2773-2784.

Quilleveré, F., V. Debat and J. –C. Auffray (2002). Ontogenetic and evolutionary patterns of shape differentiation during the initial diversification of Paleocene Acarininids (Planktonic forminifera). Paleobiology 4 (28): 435-448.

Debat, V. and J. R. David (2002). Analyzing phenotypic variation: when old-fashioned means up-to-date. Journal of Biosciences 27(3): 101-103.

Debat, V. and P. David (2001) - Mapping phenotypes: canalization, plasticity and developmental stability. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 16(10): 555-561.

Debat, V., P. Alibert, P. David, E. Paradis and J. –C. Auffray. (2000) - Independence between canalisation and developmental stability in the skull of the house mouse. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biology. 267: 423-430.

Auffray J. –C., V. Debat and P. Alibert. (1999) - Shape asymmetry and developmental stability. In On Growth and Form. Spatio temporal pattern formation in biology. M.A.J. Chaplain (ed). John Wiley & sons, Chiesester pp 309-324. 

Other publications  

Alibert, P.,  Claude J., Debat, V., Garnier, S. and P. Neige. (2010) Les contraintes. In "Biologie Evolutive" Ed. Thomas, F., Raymond, M. & Lefebvre T., De Boeck. link

Debat V. (2006). L'environnement sculpteur de gènes. La Recherche. 398: 58-62. (commissioned wide audience paper, in french) 

   

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