Elise Nowbahari

Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences)
PhD in Life Sciences
M.S. (D.E.A.) in  Eco-Ethology
B.Sc in Agricultural Engineering


Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Laboratoire d'Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée

Phone: +33(0)149403265
Email: nowbahari(at)univ-paris13.fr

 Elise Nowbahari    
       
     

Research interests

  

My research focuses on nestmate recognition and prosocial behavior in ants. The broad question is how ants use cognitive abilities in individual and in prosocial interactions. In other words, what are the basic mechanisms that drive these interactions.

These interests are perused in these areas: individual and social recognition, learning, aggressive-defensive behavior, prosocial and altruistic behavior especially rescue behavior, parental care in ants and also the role of learning in the coevolutionary predator-prey relationship between pit-digging larval antlions and ants with my colleague at Mount Holyoke College (USA).
     
     

Teaching

  

I teach in broad areas of biology and physiology for different levels of students pursuing either BSc of psychology (Licence) or Master of ethology. Topics include: bioethics, learning, neuropsychology of perception, emotional basis of learning, general ethology, adaptive behavior and coevolution.
     
     
 

Publications

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Curriculum Vitae

    
 
Since 1990
   Associate Professor, (Maître de Conférences). Université Sorbonne Paris Nord  
 
1989 - 1990
   Research scientist and lecturer, Université François Rabelais de Tours and Institute Universitaire de Technology de Tours (I.U.T.)  
 
1987-1989
   Research scientist and lecturer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, Science faculty, Department of psychophysiology and in Centre of Superior study of management (C.E.S.A.)  
 
1983-1987
   Associate Professor, Université François Rabelais de Tours, Department of psychophysiology and in Centre of Superior study of management (C.E.S.A.)  
 
1981-1983
   Research scientist and lecturer, Université François Rabelais de Tours, Science faculty, Institut Universitaire de Technology de Tours (I.U.T.), Departement of Applied Biology  
 
1988
   Ph.D. in Life Sciences, Université François Rabelais de Tours - Field of study: Behavior biology  
 
1981
   M.S. (D.E.A.) in  Eco-Ethology, Université François Rabelais de Tours - Field of study: Behavior biology  
 
1978
   B.Sc in Agricultural Engineering (Horticulture), Shiraz University (Iran). Field of study: Engineering sciences and technology of agricultural production and processing  
       

Images

Ants photos : Photography by Paul Devienne		  
      Rescue behavior in ants Cataglyphis cursor
       
     
      Rescue behavior in Cataglyphis viaticus
       
 

News Links

    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  • “Ants, all for one !” Natural History Magazine, November, 2009