June 23 2026 – Palevoprim

Palevoprim reçois le Directeur Général du CNRS

Thierry Dauxois

Palevoprim was delighted to welcome yesterday the new CNRS Director General, Thierry Dauxois, accompanied by the Directors of CNRS Chemistry and CNRS Ecology & Environment, the Regional Delegate of the CNRS DR08, and the Vice-President for Research of the University of Poitiers.

We were delighted to showcase our paleontological research through a series of thematic workshops.

Presentation

Gildas Merceron presented
the Palevoprim laboratory.

Thematic Workshop

Guillaume Daver: Locomotor Evolution
and Adaptation in Living
and Fossil Hominins

Thematic Workshop

Zoé Nowicki: Locomotor Evolution
and Adaptation in Living
and Fossil Hominins

Thematic Workshop

Amélie Beaudet: Presenting Our Research
in Southern Africa on the Place of
Australopithecus in Human Evolution,
Through the Lens of Brain Evolution.

Thematic Workshop

Edwin De Jager: Presenting Our Research
in Southern Africa on the Place of
Australopithecus in Human Evolution,
Through the Lens of Brain Evolution

Thematic Workshop

Haregwin Belete Hailu: Paleoecology
of Large Herbivorous Mammals:
Investigating Feeding and Locomotor
Behaviors as Indicators
of Past Environments.

Thematic Workshop

Julian Karoui-Canedo: Paleoecology
of Large Herbivorous Mammals:
Investigating Feeding and Locomotor
Behaviors as Indicators
of Past Environments.

Thematic Workshop

Lizon Delomosne: Data Collection,
3D Mesh Processing for Technical Analyses,
and Segmentation of Tomographic
(CT-Scan) Data.

Thematic Workshop

Olga Otero & Géraldine Garcia:
Reconstruction of Paleoenvironments
in Chad.

Thematic Workshop

Olivier Chavasseau:
Fossil and Modern Collections.

Gildas Merceron presents 3D prints
of a chimpanzee skull profile, a tooth
showing the separation between enamel
and dentine, and a dental microwear scan
(created by Jérôme Surault).