Lorang Camille

Camille Lorang took advantage of the opportunity of a master's internship in phylogeography of shrimps from Atya group in Polynesian islands, to discover and to be passionate about integrative taxonomy, with the description of new species, expecially two described and published discoveries in scientific reviews at the end of the internship. After a stay of two years in French Polynesia to finish her master's degree in insular ecology from Sorbonne University (Paris V) and to work there as a research fellow for the striated heron conservation from Tahiti, she has been engineer assistant in instrumentation and experimentation for the CNRS. For more than a year within the Instute of Sciences and Environment from Paris, she was able to familiarize herself with parasitology by working, in particular, on host-parasite relationships in pigeons. Laureate of the ABIES 2023 competition, Camille joined since 01 October 2023 the UMR BIOEPAR as a PhD student in integrative taxonomy of tropical African ticks. Led by Olivier Plantard from TIBODI team, Camille is based at ANSES in Maisons-Alfort, at the UMR BIPAR in the Mitick team, with is thesis co-director, Denis Augot. From ticks collection collected in East and West Africa since 1998, using geometric morphometry and molecular biology, the thesis will aim to clarify the under-genus Afrixodes, still less known from genus Ixodes.

Key-words: integrative taxonomy, tick, geometric morphometry, Africa