Sophie Dupont
Personal JoUrney
2022-2023: Post-doctoral research associate, Effects of pollutants on Fibropapillomatosis severity in Green turtles from the Martinique island, BOREA lab & LIENSs,Collaborators: Dr Damien Chevallier, Dr Mathieu Giraudeau, Dr Jérôme Fort, Prof Paco Bustamante, Dr Guillaume Le Loc’h;
2021-2022: Post-doctoral research associate, Intergenerational transfer of ageing, the Lansing Effect, IBAHCM – University of Glasgow, Collaborators: Pr Pat Monaghan, Pr Neil Metcalfe, Dr Winnie Boner, Dr Edward Ivimey-Cook and Cara Cochrane
PhD (2019), Impact of developmental conditions on birds’ phenotype: from hatching to adult stage (Black-browed Albatross, Snow Petrel and House Sparrow),CEBC – CNRS UMR 7372, La Rochelle University. Supervisor: Dr Frédéric Angelier;
Bsc (2014) and Msc (2016), Paris-Saclay University
Research Interests
I am always fascinated about what we learn about adaptation or strategies adopted by individuals to survive and reproduce in our world today.
Having the opportunity to contribute to discover how biotic and abiotic factors influence individual fitness by using complementary molecular, ecophysiological and behavioral approaches passionates me.
I’m then working on scientific projects that aim to combine multidisciplinary approaches to understand how changes (induced by humans especially) modulate fitness-dependent decisions took by vertebrates and how the evolution of these strategies occurs.
During my current post-doctoral position, I’m interested in telomere dynamics, cooperation and response to extreme events. More specifically I will study whether telomere dynamic 1) represents a robust tool to estimate individual quality in sociable weavers and 2) is impacted by a major fire event.
E-mail: sophie.dupont93@gmail.com
Selected Publications
4. Dupont, S. M., Barbraud, C., Chastel, O., Delord, K., Pallud, M., Parenteau, C., … & Angelier, F. (2023). How does maternal age influence reproductive performance and offspring phenotype in the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea)?. Oecologia, 1-16.
3. Dupont, S. M., Barbraud, C., Chastel, O., Delord, K., Parenteau, C., Trouvé, C., & Angelier, F. (2021). “Home alone!” influence of nest parental attendance on offspring behavioral and hormonal stress responses in an Antarctic seabird, the Snow Petrel (Pagodroma nivea). Hormones and Behavior, 131, 104962.
2. Dupont, S. M., Grace, J. K., Lourdais, O., Brischoux, F., & Angelier, F. (2019). Slowing down the metabolic engine: impact of early-life corticosterone exposure on adult metabolism in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(22), jeb211771.
1. Dupont, S. M., Barbraud, C., Chastel, O., Delord, K., Ruault, S., Weimerskirch, H., & Angelier, F. (2018). Young parents produce offspring with short telomeres: A study in a long-lived bird, the Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys). PLoS One, 13(3), e0193526.
