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Sylvain
Benhamou

Ph.D. student

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I am a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology (University Lyon 1)

since November 2018 as part of the Micro-be-have project. I am supervised by Laurence Mouton (LBBE, Lyon) Federica Calevro (Bf2i, Lyon), Fabrice Vavre (LBBE, Lyon) and Emmanuel Desouhant (LBBE, Lyon). I studied agroecology and plant biology at the University of Nice and at the University Paris-Saclay. I am particularly interested in plant protection and in the integrated pest management of insects. I had the opportunity to approach these subjects from different angles during my research
laboratory internships on the organization of insect communities in agrosystems, the development of insecticides based on natural substances and the evolution of insecticide resistance. My thesis project aims to determine whether and how symbiotic bacteria influences the behavior and physiology of the  tobacco whitefly, Bemisia tabaci. To answer these questions, I perform host plant and mate choice experiments with individuals whose composition of the symbiotic community is controlled. I also
measure the ability of these individuals to exploit crop plants.