Bacher, S., J. Casas & S. Dorn (1997). Substrate vibrations elicit defensive behaviour in leafminer pupae. Journal of Insect Physiology, 43: 945-952.

Meyhöfer, R., J. Casas & S. Dorn (1997). Mechano- and chemoreceptors and their possible role in the host location behaviour of Sympiesis sericeicornis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Annals of the American Entomological Society of America, 90: 208-219.

Meyhöfer, R., J. Casas & S. Dorn (1997). Vibration mediated interactions in a host-parasitoid system. Proceeding of the Royal Society London B, 264: 261-266.

Casas, J. & M. Aluja (1997). The geometry of search movements of insects in plant canopies. Behavioral Ecology, 8: 37-45.

Bacher S., J. Casas & S. Dorn (1996). Parasitoid vibrations as potential releasing stimulus of evasive behaviour in a leafminer. Physiological Entomology, 21: 33-43.

Blanché S., J. Casas, F. Bigler & K.E. Janssen-van Bergeijk (1996). An individual-based model of Trichogramma foraging behaviour: parameter estimation for single females. Journal of Applied Ecology, 33: 425-434.

Meyhöfer, R., Casas, J. & S. Dorn (1994). Host location by a parasitoid using leafminer vibrations: Characterising the vibrational signals produced by the leafmining host. Physiological Entomology, 19 : 349-359.

Casas J. & B. Hulliger (1994). Statistical analysis of functional response experiments. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 4 : 133-145.

Casas J. & R. Meyhöfer (1994). Methoden zur kontinuierlichen Laborzucht von Apfelminiermotten des Artenkomplexes Phyllonorycter blancardella Fabr. (Lep. Gracillariidae) und seiner Parasitoide. Journal of Applied Entomology, 117: 530-532.

Casas J., W.S.C. Gurney, R. Nisbet & O. Roux (1993). A probabilistic model for the functional response of a parasitoid at the behavioural time scale. Journal of Animal Ecology,  63:194-204.

Casas J. (1990). Multidimensional host distribution and non-random parasitism: a case study and a stochastic model. Ecology 71: 1893-1903.

Casas J. (1989). Foraging behaviour of a leafminer parasitoid in the field. Ecological Entomology 14: 257-265.

Casas J. (1988). Analysis of searching movements of a leafminer parasitoid in a structured environment. Physiological Entomology 13: 373-390.

Prof. Jérôme Casas

Born in 1961 in the foothills of the Swiss Jura Mountains, Jérôme Casas obtained his Ph.D. from the ETH Zurich in 1989. After a short post-doc at Strathclyde University (Glasgow) he was hired research  assistant and later assistant professor (Oberassistant) at the ETH Zurich. He migrated to the US in 1993, working at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and returned to Europe as full Professor in 1995 in Tours.

His research interests span physiology and ecology, including work on the physical ecology of insects; the physiology, behavior and population dynamics of consumer-resource interactions; the sensory ecology of mimetism; and biologically- inspired technology, particularly biomimetic flow sensing. One notable feature of his approach is the blending of natural history with both state-of-the-art technology and modeling. His group is composed of applied mathematicians, engineers and biologists.

From 2001 to 2008, he was the director of the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte (UMR CNRS), one of the largest institutions in Europe working on insects (60+ scientists), during which time he hired several internationally recognized scientists from abroad. He is also strongly committed to teaching, through the successive directorship of two master degrees and through the daily formation of students; several of his students and post-docs have won prestigious prizes, in particular the Haldane and Elton prizes of the British Ecological Society and the Allee Award of the Animal Behavior Society.

He has contributed and contributes to many national and international scientific boards, the most notable being BIOKON-The International Biomimetics Association (Berlin), the governing board of the FRB (Fondation sur la Recherche en Biodiversité, previously IFB, Paris), as well as the interdisciplinary committee of the Canada Research Chairs program (Ottawa).

He was awarded the ETH medal for a thesis in the University’s top 10%, was nominated both junior and subsequently senior member of the IUF (Institut Universitaire Français) and was the Distinguished Invited Professor of the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2006. Prof. Casas also serves on the editorial board of a number of ecological and physiological journals – From Oecologia, to Biology Letters, Current Opinion in Insect Science or Interface, including serving as the co-editor (with S. Simpson) of Advances in Insect Physiology.

His research interests span physiology and ecology, including work on the physical ecology of insects; the physiology, behavior and population dynamics of consumer-resource interactions; the sensory ecology of mimetism; and biologically- inspired technology, particularly biomimetic flow sensing. One notable feature of his approach is the blending of natural history with both state-of-the-art technology and modeling. His group is composed of applied mathematicians, engineers and biologists.

From 2001 to 2008, he was the director of the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte (UMR CNRS), one of the largest institutions in Europe working on insects (60+ scientists), during which time he hired several internationally recognized scientists from abroad. He is also strongly committed to teaching, through the successive directorship of two master degrees and through the daily formation of students; several of his students and post-docs have won prestigious prizes, in particular the Haldane and Elton prizes of the British Ecological Society and the Allee Award of the Animal Behavior Society.

He has contributed and contributes to many national and international scientific boards, the most notable being BIOKON-The International Biomimetics Association (Berlin), the governing board of the FRB (Fondation sur la Recherche en Biodiversité, previously IFB, Paris), as well as the interdisciplinary committee of the Canada Research Chairs program (Ottawa).

He was awarded the ETH medal for a thesis in the University’s top 10%, was nominated both junior and subsequently senior member of the IUF (Institut Universitaire Français) and was the Distinguished Invited Professor of the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2006. Prof. Casas also serves on the editorial board of a number of ecological and physiological journals – From Oecologia, to Biology Letters, Current Opinion in Insect Science or Interface, including serving as the co-editor (with S. Simpson) of Advances in Insect Physiology.

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