For the scientific colloquium held at the MNHN around the restitution of the french collections of Maorie Heads to New Zealand, my colleague Phillip Endicott and I give a short report conference avoub our molecular study of the collection of the maori heads to be restituted to Te Papa Museum. We make a French/English conference [...]

Today, I was interviewed for a report in the French national TV news (France 2, journal de 20H) about thepossibility of ressurecting ancient life forms like the mammoth. Difficult to go through the issue in 3′, so that in the end, through the cuts, I manage to say that we can’t do it and it [...]

Today, for the second consecutive year, I give a lecture on the theme of Paleogenomics for the UDV1 class of the Master (1st year) of the Museum. Learn more about this lecture in the Teaching section.

I was interviewed by Emilie Rauscher who wrote this well-documented article about the potential roads to resurrecting extinct life forms (and whether we should do it or not) for the french monthly scientific magazine: Science & Vie (N°1131) of December 2011.  

I took part to the shooting of a french documentary (52′) entitled “Archéologues de l’ADN”  directed by François-Xavier Busnel for Chromatiques Editions. Scenes were shot during the autopsy of baby mammoth Khroma, held in Le Puy-en-Velay (France) in August 2010. After TV broadcast, it was released in DVD today. Here is the teaser of the [...]