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January 2023
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Galette des rois !! :)
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 GRAVIBONE welcomes Jordan Gônet who will scan bones during several months and Driss Zemani who will work with Pauline on horse long bone microstructure
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December 2022
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Christmas Time :)
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November 2022



We welcome Sergio Tarquini who will scan bones during several months
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October 2022
Biomim'Expo.        Alexandra & Julien Chaves-Jacob present how paleontology/biology meets mechanics for Bioinspiration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tycTKaCiDZI&ab_channel=Biomim%27expoTV
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We welcome Mohamed Camara for his internship.
Romain visited the collections from the NHM to scan some dino long bones
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September 2022
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Camille
went to the Museum of Florence to scan proboscidean bones
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August 2022




Arnaud & Alexandra
visited the Collections of Leiden to collect proboscidean long bones
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July 2022
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Pauline visited the University of Lleida to collect shape data on equid bones from Spanish archaeological sites
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Alexandra presented her work in relation with Bioinspiration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjlY6JXeA_k&list=PLXKcBtKoFI_6QjQFlaAeBintpJOxRlmQw&index=42&ab_channel=IdeasinScience
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May 2022
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Morgan presented his work at the MNHN young researcher's Congress
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Great fun at the MECADEV Summer Party!
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April 2022
Welcome to 4 Master-1 students Elsa Leflaec, Jérémie Viot, Chloé Aubry & Yvon Gallic
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March 2022
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ISPH Meeting!!!
With great presentations from Camille , Cyril and Romain C. and a poster from Guillaume H. 
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February 2022
Cyril presented to our "3D brainsorming team", i.e. Arnaud Delapré, Marta Bellato & Patricia Wils, all the methodological developments he managed to achieve through his own work and the supervision of Baptiste and Axel.
A great technical step for Gravibone that we managed to reach through great exchanges and collaborative work :)
Thanks to all of you!
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GRAVIBONE welcomes Morgan Proust for his M2 Internship
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Romain presented his work at the PalVert seminars

January 2022
GRAVIBONE is happy to welcome Axel de Jesus
for his internship
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Pauline went back to Montpellier to scan horse long bones
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Dinosaur bones in the µCT
. Sorry Marta Bellato for the heavy bones!! And thanks again !!!




Brainstorming at GRAVIBONE with Floréal, Cyril & Axel
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December 2021
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Christmas Spirit at Gravibone :)




Pauline
prepares her scan mission to Montpellier. Bones, bones, bones !
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Christophe got the Prix de la Chancelerie for his PhD :) Congrats!!!!
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Scans again, at the MNHN, for Camille
November 2021
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Camille
went to the Naturkundemuseum in Stuttgart
&
to the
Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien
to scan elephant bones

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October 2021
Cyril went to the IRSNB in Bruxelles to scan some elephant bones & sample rhino bones.
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Alexandra & Arnaud went to the NHM in Basel to give back rhino specimens & scan some elephant bones.
Thanks Loïc for your help !!

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September 2021


Lab Garden Party at Brunoy
Nice moments!!
(despite our poor results in
ping-pong ;)

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Scan of elephant bones at the MNHN by Nicolas & Camille

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New lab members!
Welcome to Floréal Solé for his postdoc! To Nicolas Rinder and Baptiste Collin for their internship! :)
Glad that the lab is full and lively again!!

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Christophe and Rémi went to the APF Meeting in Troyes.


And... Christophe won the PhD Orbigny prize!! Congrats!!!!! Well done!
(and Rémi got some great news as well :)
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Camille officially started her PhD-thesis on  "Limb bone inner and outer adaptations to graviportality in Proboscidea, as compared to other heavy taxa (Hippopotamidae, Rhinocerotidae)".
C'est parti ! :)
August 2021


Alexandra & Cyril went to the MNHN collections.
It's great to be back there looking for bones :)
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July 2021
Christophe, Rémi and Romain presented their work at the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists'
Annual Meeting
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Cyril presented his work at the Society of Experimental Biology
Annual Conference

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Rémy Gilardet started his 2 months internship on microtomographic data of elephant limb bones
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May/June 2021
Romain presented his work at the Triassic Vertebrate Paleontology Online Meetup
and in a seminar at the MEVADEV lab
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March 2021
Romain took part in a virtual dino-club at the Chancellor’s school (UK) with Emily Keeble from the Dawndinos project.

                                                                                                            Cyril presented his research at MECADEV seminars.
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January 2021
Romain digitized heavy ornithischian limb bones from the MNHN collections
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December 2020
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Alexandra
presented GRAVIBONE work at Vertebrate Paleontology Seminars "at" Bonn (Steinmann Institüt) and Poitiers (PALEVOPRIM)
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Rémi successfully defended his PhD
with a great committee of excellent peers: Susannah Maidment, Diego Pol, Daniela Schwarz, Verónica Díez Díaz, Anick Abourachid & Florent Goussard.
All the best to this very good young doctor!!

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GRAVIBONE Meeting
with a talk from Christine Böhmer on giraffe's neck evolution.
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November 2020

Christophe brilliantly defended his PhD
with a great committee of excellent peers: Stephanie Pierce, Peter Aerts, Ursula Göhlich & Pierre-Olivier Antoine.
Good luck to this outstanding young colleague!

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GRAVIBONE Meeting
with talks from Romain, presenting the Angeac field campaign 2020
and from Cyril presenting his work on rhino muscles.
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October 2020
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"Last minute" scanning session at Montpellier by Alexandra before "confinment 2" to scan ankle bones of suids in the context of the collaboration with Thomas Cucchi.
GRAVIBONE Meeting
With talks from Alexandra (debriefing SVP) and Camille Bader about bone cartographies
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 Romain & Alexandra  took part to virtual SVP 2020
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March-August 2020

GRAVIBONE tried to work despite confinment & post-confinment
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February-March 2020
Alexandra presented at the MECADEV seminars
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Cyril went to the Royal Veterinary College to visit John Hutchinson' lab to analyze rhino muscle data.
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Romain visited the collections from the Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) in Arizona, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History (NMMNH) in Albuquerque and the Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock.
His American first adventure is available at https://dawndinos.com/my-american-adventure-by-romain-pintore/
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Cyril returned to the NHM to scan rhino long bones

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Welcome  !!!!
to Charlène Verbeke (Master 2) on the astragalus and calcaneum shape adaptations in Proboscidea
& to
Guillaume Houée (Master 2) on the inner structure of tapirs' long bones.
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Alexandra & Arnaud went to Basel to digitize a few bones and...
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-... loan a few others ;)As always, very nice exchanges with Loïc Costeur!

January 2020
GRAVIBONE welcomes Morgane Longuet (Master 2) who will work on the inner structure of the astragalus in rhinos





+ additionnal µCT scans in Montpellier & London
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And sauropodomorph bones are being scanned on AST-RX by Marta Bellato...

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Patricia presented our preliminary results on automatic segmentation at the  Cultural and Natural Heritage ESRF-EBS workshop

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Cyril and Alexandra went to visit Michael Fagan's lab at Hull. Very nice discussions and training :)
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Great discussions and inputs from Patricia Wils (with Alexandra) and Hugo Harbers (with Camille Bader) for 3D analyses
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December 2019
Romain visited the NHM collections with John Hutchinson and Peter Bishop to scout for additional archosaur limb bones
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Cyril presented his PhD subject at the CRI, Paris
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November 2019
Cyril went to the NHM in London to µCT-scan rhino long bones & work with Vincent Fernandez
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Alexandra presented advances of the project at the MECADEV Researcher's Days
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GRAVIBONE at the "Science Festival" / "Fête de la Science" at the Museum. Participation from Alex, Christophe, Cyril & Rémi.

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October 2019
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PhD official start for Cyril
(see below)
& Romain
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Romain starts his PhD on the internal and external structure of long bones among dinosaurs and their cousins in relation to their posture.
Project between DAWNDINOS (with J. Hutchinson) & GRAVIBONE.

The first part of his PhD is within the DAWNDINOS team to study the limb bone inner and outer adaptations to postural changes among early archosaurs.



September 2019
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Alexandra at the MNHN "Biomimetism Day"


Kinga Gaignebet
joined the lab for a volunteer internship. Welcome :)
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Cyril
at the Discovery Days at the CRI
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Alexandra went at the biomim expo with her colleague Emmanuelle Pouydebat
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July 2019
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Alexandra went to the ISPH Meeting
in Cape Town.
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Great ICVM Meeting in Prague with talks from Alexandra, Christophe, Cyril, Rémi & Arnaud's poster
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Romain
& Alexandra were happy to take part to the EAVP Meeting
in Brussels!
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June 2019
End of the Master-Theses


Visit of Julien Chaves Jacob & Santiago Arroyave Tobon from the Bio Inspired Design Team of the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement (UMR 7287) - Aix-Marseille Université to work on our project CNRS Défi Biomimétisme.
Great exchanges and discussions !! :)
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Cyril got funding for his 3 years-PhD from the FIRE Doctoral School of the CRI (Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire).
Well done Cyril!!! Congrats!!
He will start in October to work on rhino limb bone biomechanics with Alexandra and Michael Fagan and in collaboration with Peter Aerts, Sandra Nauwelaerts & John Hutchinson.
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Alexandra went to the MRI-ISEM Plateau,
in Montpelleir, to scan various bones.

Clémentin Bouquet did great volunteer internship at the lab.
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Adrien de Perthuis. Master 1. Inner structure of the patella in perissodactyls


Lou Moizo. Master 1. Functional morphology of patella in the Rhinocerotoidea
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Manon Zanuto. Master 2. Research and analysis of phylogenetic characters and proxies associated with graviportality in mammals
Kevin Gayot. Master 1. Comparative study of methods for estimating body mass in mammals
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May 2019
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Digitization at the MNHN by Alexandra, Arnaud, Christophe and Guillaume
Alexandra went to the Natural History Museum (London) to scan bones with Vincent Fernandez
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April 2019
Rémi's visit to the collections of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Buenos Aires), Instituto Miguel Lillo (San Miguel de Tucumán), Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturale (San Juan) & Museo de La Plata (La Plata)

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March 2019

Christophe's visit to the collections of the American Museum (NY) and Peabody Museum (Yale)
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Great presentations from Cyril, Rémi and Romain, and poster from Jordan
at the YNHM

Congrats to Romain for the price of the Best Presentation in the Method Session !
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February 2019
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GRAVIDAWN meeting. GRAVIBONE was pleased to welcome DAWNDINOS. Great talks and exchanges!
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Romain's participation at the Scientific symposium Frontiers in Heritage Science
Christophe's visit to the Gannat collections
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January 2019

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Alexandra went to Montpellier to scan various bones at the ISEM X-Ray Microtomography Plateau
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Romain's visit to the collections of La Rochelle, France.
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December 2018
Rémi's visit to the collections of the University of Marrakech, with Ronan.
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Romain's visit to the collections of the Musée d'Angoulême with Ronan.
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https://www.sudouest.fr/2018/11/29/dans-le-laboratoi-re-d-angeac-5608654-811.php

November 2018
Christophe & Rémi's participation to The Doc & Postdoc Days of MECADEV
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October 2018
Alexandra's participation to SVP & Visit of the collections in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Presentation of the work essentially carried out by Cyril.
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Romain
's presentation at the Taphonomy Day organized by the DIM "Heritage & ancient materials"
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September 2018

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GRAVIBONE Meeting for the 1.5 years review
August 2018
Alexandra's visit to the collections in Bâle (Switzerland)
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Christophe's presentation at the
5th International Palaeontological Congress, Paris.
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He was actually really presenting something :)
July 2018
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June 2018

Defenses with success of all Master students. Congratulation to all of them!!

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Alexandra's presentation of GRAVIBONE at the Ceebios.
GIS « Matériaux bio-inspirés / Habitat bio-inspiré »
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Arnaud and Alexandra's digitalisation of elephant bones at the MNHN

May 2018
Christophe's visit to the Powell Cotton Museum, UK
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April 2018
Rémi's visit to the collections from Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa
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Presentation / Discussion of the Master student's work
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Romain
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Cyril
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Jordan

March 2018

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Alex's trip to the Lyon collections
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Romain's oral communication at the YNHSM in Paris
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Rémi's second visit of the collections in Stuttgart

February 2018
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Christophe digitizing bones in Toulouse

Welcome to the 3 Master(2) students:

Cyril Etienne
On the astragalus & calcaneum form/function relationships in Rhinocerotoidea. Co-supervised by Alexandra & Raphaël and with data inputs from Christophe & Alexandra.
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Romain Pintore
On the retrodeformation and reconstruction of taphonomically altered fossil specimens for 3D geometric morphometrics applications. Co-supervised by Raphaël, Arnaud & Alexandra.
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Jordan Gônet

On the posture of the massive iguanodontid Lurdusaurus. Co-supervised by Alexandra & Ronan.

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January 2018
Christophe's visit to the London collections
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First Thesis Advisory Commitee of Rémi
With Christine Böhmer (MNHN), Xabier Pereda Suberbiola (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao), Eric Guilbert (MNHN, for the doctoral school), and his 3 PhD supervisors.
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Alexandra went to visit the
collections in Vienna

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Andréa's visit  to the
collections in Berlin


December 2017
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Christophe's trip to Lyon (France) collections



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  Training Photoscan with Arnaud

2nd Gravibone Brainstorming Meeting;
(with Rémi, Ronan, Raphaël, Arnaud, "Christophe", Guillaume  and Alexandra)
Theme: Body mass estimation

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First Thesis Advisory Commitee of Christophe
With Sandra Nauwelaerts (University of Antwerpen), Pierre Olivier Antoine (ISEM, Montpellier), Eric Guilbert (MNHN, for the doctoral school), and his 3 PhD supervisors.

November 2017
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   Andrea working on the bone reconstructions


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1st Gravibone Brainstorming Meeting;
(with Guillaume, Ronan, Arnaud Delapré, Raphaël, Christophe, Rémi and Alexandra)
Theme: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods


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Christophe's visit to the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)
Followed by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences at Bruxelles

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 Andréa digitizing bones in the MNHN collections.



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Rémi's visit to the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
He also went to the University of Tübingen


October 2017

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Training in a happy atmosphere :)

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Data acquisition in the Galery of Paleontology

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Rémi at the Journées annuelles de la SFS (Société Française de Systématique), Banyuls
Theme:
Méthodes Phylogénétiques Comparatives : comment parler du process à partir du pattern ?

Alexandra & Raphaël at the " Perissodactyla informal meeting " organized with Anvers's team (Peter Aerts, Sandra Nauwelaerts & students)

Rémi Lefebvre starts his PhD on Sauropodomorphs!
Towards extreme gigantism - Long bone
inner and outer adaptations in sauropodomorph dinosaurs

Supervised by Alexandra, Ronan & Raphaël.

Andréa Filippo joins GRAVIBONE and will work on bovids, with Alexandra & Raphaël.
Welcome to both of you! :)

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September 2017
Christophe starts his PhD on Rhinos!!!
Long bone morphological and microanatomical adaptation to graviportality in Rhinocerotoidea
Supervised by Alexandra, Guillaume & Raphaël.
3 years left ;)


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With the Artec Eva Scanner
July 2017
Christophe Mallet and Alexandra went to Munich to scan bones of both modern and fossil taxa.

June 2017
End of the Master 1 Internships (3 weeks) of Guillaume Devaux (supervised by Alexandra Houssaye & Raphaël Cornette), Miranta Kouvari (supervised by Alexandra Houssaye, Guillaume Billet & Raphaël Cornette), and Romain Pintore (supervised by Alexandra Houssaye, Ronan Allain & Raphaël Cornette).
Guillaume - Étude comparative de la morphologie générale des os du stylopode entre des plantigrades, digitigrades et onguligrades.
Miranta - Changement de forme du stylopode en lien avec les besoins fonctionnels : une approche 3D sur des Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla).
Romain - Changements de contraintes fonctionnelles entre les prosauropodes et les sauropodes : Aperçu des changements morphologiques des os du stylopode.

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