Nearshore marine environment contains many complex processes, but the lack of high-resolution data over a large area during a long time is often the primary obstacle to further research. High-frequency (HF) radar is a mean of remote sensing which obtains continuous near...

Cerebellar defects encompass a group of rare diseases affecting cerebellar functioning. The prevalence of these defects is estimated to be 26 in 10000 children in Europe. These diseases lead to movement disorders (ataxia) and are frequently associated with intellectual ...

The hydrozoan jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica displays very efficient wound repair mechanisms after different types of injury. During my PhD, I investigated in the medusa the cellular and molecular processes involved in the regeneration of the feeding organ, called ‘manu...

This thesis focuses on the study of the femtosecond photoswitching dynamic in the bistable molecular materials, using the pump-probe experiments which are based on the optical and x-ray spectroscopies. Part of these experiments was performed at synchrotron and X-FEL (X-...

Physical interactions involve highly dexterous movements and exchanges of diverse information. Numerous haptic interfaces were developed with the aim to reproduce these dexterous gestures and each of these interactions. However, it is technically impossible to date to d...

Despite the astonishing diversity of plants, animals and macroscopic fungi, most eukaryotic diversity is actually microbial. The eukaryotic tree comprises several large monophyletic supergroups. One of these groups is the Opisthokonta, which encompasses two branches, Ho...

Comparative ecology, through large-scale screening of plant morpho-physiological traits, has brought evidence that plant diversity is constrained. Several co-variations between functional traits appear to be pervasive across species and ecosystems. This has been interpr...

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a family of heterogeneous RNAs that play a major role in many cancers, particularly in melanomas. The dog is a natural and spontaneous model for the comparative genetic analysis of cancers and, the annotation of the canine genome has r...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) form a standard ruler that can be used to constrain different cosmolo- gical models. This thesis reports the first measurement of the BAO feature in the correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the Lyman-α forests of hi...

In the context of agroecological transition, the reintroduction of legumes in cropping systems represents a major lever. Indeed, legumes allow the reduction of nitrogen inputs during their growth cycle thanks to their ability to symbiotically fix atmospheric nitrogen. I...