E-mail: frederic.mery@legs.cnrs-gif.fr
Phone : + 33 1 69 82 37 32
CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS
2010-: Habilitation a diriger des recherches.
2010-:Charge de recherche 1ere classe CNRS, Gif sur Yvette (France).
2006- 2010: Chargé de recherche 2ieme classe CNRS, Gif sur Yvette (France).
2003-2006: Postdoctoral position, University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
1999-2003: PhD “experimental evolutionary biology of learning in Drosophila melanogaster”, University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Advisor: Dr. Tadeusz J. Kawecki.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2008-2011-3 years grant European Research Council “starting Grant’’ (600 000 Euro)
2006-2009-4 years Grant for young researcher (ATIP, CNRS 150 000 euro)
2005-7 month stipend from Roche Research Foundation
2003-6 month stipend from Roche Research Foundation
2003-University of Fribourg, Vigener Prize awarded by the University of Fribourg for the best PhD of the year 2003 in Science Faculty.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Battesti M, Moreno C, Joly D and Mery F. 2012 Spread of social information and dynamics of social transmission within Drosophila. Current Biology (in press).
2. Hutchinson, J. M. C. Stephens D. W., Bateson M., Couzin I., Dukas R., Giraldeau L., Hills T. T., Mery, F. and Winterhalder, B. In press. Evolution of Search, Adaptation and Phylogeny. In: Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain.
3. Burns J, Foucaud J, Mery F 2011 Costs of memory: lessons from "mini” brains Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 278(1707): 923-929.
4. Reaume C, Sokolowski MB, Mery F 2011 A natural genetic polymorphism affects retroactive interference in Drosophila melanogaster Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 278(1702): 91-98.
5. Foucaud J, Burns J, Mery F 2010 Use of spatial information and search strategies in a water maze analog in Drosophila melanogaster PLoS ONE 5(10)
6. Danchin E, Blanchet S, Mery F and Wagner RH 2010 Do invertebrates have culture? Communicative & Integrative Biology 3(4) 303-305
7. Mery F 2010. Book Review: Cognitive Ecology II. Quarterly Review of Biology (in press)
8. Burns J and Mery F 2010 Transgenerational memory effect of ageing in Drosophila, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23(4): 678-686
9. Mery F and Burns J 2010 Behavioural plasticity: an interaction between evolution and experience Evolutionary Ecology 24(3): 571-583
10. Mery F, Varela S, Danchin E, Blanchet S, Parejo D, Coolen I and Wagner R 2009 Public versus personal information for mate copying in an invertebrate Current Biology 19(9):730-734.
11. Lagasse F, Devaud JM and Mery F 2009 “A switch from cycloheximide-resistant consolidated memory to cycloheximide-sensitive reconsolidation and extinction in Drosophila” Journal of Neuroscience 29(7): 2225-2230.
12. Mery F 2008 “Evolutionary biology of learning in insect: the search for food” in “insect taste” (ed. Newland P, Cobb M, Marion-Poll F, Taylor Francis P 243-256).
13. Mery F, Belay AT, So AK-C, Sokolowski MB, Kawecki TJ 2007 “Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila” Proc. Natl Acad Sci USA 104:13051–13055.
14. Mery F, Pont J, Preat T and Kawecki TJ 2007 ‘’Experimental evolution of olfactory memory in Drosophila melanogaster’’ Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 80 (4): 399-405
15. Mery F. 2006 “Aging and its differential effects on consolidated memory forms in Drosophila” Experimental Gerontology 42(1-2): 99-101
16. Kolss M., Kraaijeveld, A. R. Mery F. and Kawecki T. J. 2006 “No trade-off between learning ability and parasitoid resistance in Drosophila melanogaster”. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 19 (4): 1359-1363
17. Kawecki, T. J. and Mery F. 2006 “Genetically idiosyncratic responses of Drosophila melanogaster populations to selection for improved learning ability”. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19 (4): 1265-1274
18. Mery, F. and Kawecki, T. J. 2005 “A cost of long-term memory in Drosophila”. Science 308: 1148-1148.
19. Mery, F. and Kawecki, T. J. 2004 “An operating cost of learning in Drosophila melanogaster” Animal Behavior 68(3): 589-598.
20. Mery, F. and Kawecki, T. J. 2004 “The effect of learning on experimental evolution of resource preference in Drosophila melanogaster” Evolution 58(4): 757-767
21. Mery, F. and Kawecki, T.J. 2003 “A fitness cost of learning ability in Drosophila melanogaster” Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 270, 2465-2469.
22. Kawecki, T. J. and Mery, F. 2003 “Evolutionary conservatism of geographic variation in host preference in Callosobruchus maculatus” Ecological Entomology 28:449-456.
23. Mery F, Kawecki TJ. 2002 “Experimental evolution of learning ability in fruit flies” Proc. Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 14274-14279.
24. Mery F, Joly D. 2002 “Multiple mating, sperm transfer and oviposition pattern in the giant sperm species, Drosophila bifurca.” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15 (1): 49-56.