ANR JCJC MATURE
I am the scientific coordinator of the MATURE project.
The MATURE project is at the interface of mathematics and biology, in order to study ageing in wild populations and the role it plays in evolution. Ageing was long thought to be absent in the wild, yet recent empirical evidence shows that natural populations do contain physiologically old individuals. This raises new questions about how these individuals behave and how they shape the ecology and evolution of their population.
To explore these questions, the project builds and analyses stochastic individual-based models of age-structured populations, together with statistical methods to reconstruct their dynamics from data, in particular for Drosophila melanogaster, using the “Smurf” phenotype as an end-of-life marker. We also develop new scaling limits for age-structured population dynamics, with a particular interest in the evolutionary role of the Lansing effect.
Members and associate members
- Luce Breuil, PhD student, CMAP, École Polytechnique.
- Loren Coquille, Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble-Alpes.
- Marie Doumic, CMAP, École Polytechnique, INRIA.
- Madeleine Kubash, post-doc (from November 2026), LAGA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
- Alexandra Labbetoul, ingénieur d'étude, LAGA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and ECOTRON, CNRS.
- Sylvie Méléard, CMAP, École Polytechnique.
- Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, LAGA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
- Adrien Pirin, PhD student, LAGA, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
- Michael Rera, BFA (Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative), Université Paris Cité.
You can contact me if you are interested in this project. More information, including the launch workshop, will be added here soon.