This year's Summer School welcomed 21 participants:
4 Postdocs, 3 Masters students and 14 PhD students.

Despite a slightly lower number of participants (due to last-minute cancellations that could not be replaced), we still counted 14 different nationalities.
We even received 280 applications, including over a hundred profiles that were a perfect match for the Summer School. Unfortunately, we weren't able to take everyone and we hope to keep the interest of these candidates for the next edition.

We would also like to point out that students from 4 LabEx laboratories took part in the Summer School, reaffirming our desire to offer opportunities for our young researchers and enabling them to make international contacts and within the TULIP community.

Program

There were no changes this year, and the programme remained more or less the same, with seminars in the mornings and workshops in the afternoons, with participants handing in work papers on Thursday.

We've kept the traditional day off hiking. Although this time the descent of the Pic du Midi was replaced by a hike in the mountains of Peyragudes due to the change of venue.

Guest Speakers

A big thank you to the volunteers in the TULIP community, this year we had almost all the laboratories represented in the supervisory team: Alexandra Magro (CRBE) , Sylvain Merlot (LRSV), Hervé Philippe (SETE), Julie Clément (IHPE), Olivier Panaud (LGDP), Alexis Chaine (SETE).
To the ‘TULIP careers’ guests : Sylvain Moulherat and Arnaud Sentis

And of course to our international guests:
- Virginia Valcarcel Nunez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) who will be coming to the LGDP at the beginning of 2025 as a Visiting Scientist and has responded very positively to our invitation.
- Donald Miles (Ohio University), who has offered to come again this year as he will be at SETE at that time.

Workshop

The workshops are made up of 4 to 5 people and are supervised by 2 supervisors who suggest a subject at the interface between their disciplines. The group must develop a research project related to their subject and present it at the end of the week.

• Building heat-resistant peanut crops: can polyploidy outpace climate change ?
  Emilie Aubin, Alexander Johansson, Amara Santiesteban-Serrano, Hyeonmin Jeong, Soline Marty, supervised by Julie Clément & Virginia Valcarcel Nunez
   
• By what mechanism(s) has geographical parthenogenesis appeared and been maintained in populations of Clitarchus hookeri ?
  Edith Lai, Anton Kermanov, Léo Bunel, Marvin Navarro, Carla Behringer, under the supervision of Olivier Panaud & Alexandra Magro
   
• Evolution of thermoplasticity induced by climate change in Bombus Heamaturus
  Rana Kanaan, Rakuri Aiba, Sylvain Vicente , Camille Charpentier, Igor Dubanevics, Kawsar Khan, under the supervision of Alexis Chaine & Hervé Philippe 
   
• Study of the selective pressures leading to the emergence of metal accumulation in plants
  Irina Mikajlo, Edgard Lemaire, Maren Herzog, Kristine Jecha, Nicolas Burkhardt, under the supervision of Sylvain Merlot & Donald Miles 
   

The venue

For the first time since the creation of the Summer School, the event could not be held at the Domaine de Ramonjuan, following their closure. Many thanks to the Domaine, Dominique and Isabelle and all their team for the many editions and their invaluable help in organising the event with the new LabEx team.

The Germ Louron Mountain Centre was the venue for this twelfth event.
We wanted to keep a fairly similar setting, which was part of the success of the Summer School, and we were right to choose this new venue.
The Centre is run by an association that also runs a venue, ‘Chez Lily’, which offers a cultural programme every summer, and they even adapted their cultural programme by asking Sophie Wilhelm and Jean-François Vrod to come and work with our research themes.

We would like to thank the whole team at the Centre de Montagne for agreeing to welcome us, and for their enthusiasm from the very first moment they were introduced to the event.

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