The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Summer 2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration!

Also stay tune if you want to know more on the long term & intergenerational effects of early-life heterothermic expression with studies about to be submitted and in preparation. So coming out hopefully soon!

A special thanks to my former graduate student, Laura Charlanne, first author of the study, now lecturer & postdoctoral researcher. Also a huge thanks to all co-authors of the study who made this journey possible.

Now I am thrilled to announce the publication of the first piece of a long-term study on developmental flexibility of energy saving strategies, namely torpor & huddling, in a small fat storing hibernator. This work happened during my time as senior researcher in Vienna. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Huddling and food availability shape seasonal torpor and energetics of juvenile garden dormice

animal physiology; biological sciences; rodent behavior

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Thank you to my colleague, Jessica LaPrice, from Washington & Lee University, VA for co organizing this symposium. Also many thanks to all four speakers for their awesome contributions to this event. Always nice to hear the latest advances on torpor, hibernation, and metabolic adaptations.

Great & awesome week at Norfolk, VA, for the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting! Was amazed to meet a very nice community of scientists with so much opportunities to share unique experiences and scientific knowledge. Definitely a meeting recommended to attend for all.

Excellent visit of my colleague, Jessica LaPrice, at Washington & Lee Univeristy (W&L) at Lexington, VA, before heading up to the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting in Norfolk. Very nice campus of W&L enabling unique students learning experiences!

I am delighted to share the first study of the Energetics Lab with my undergraduate, Korben Moelter, as first author published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B. A neat comparison of Mammalian Thermoregulation Clines Across North America Using Bergman’s Rule. Check: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Very much delighted to share the several contributions of student researchers from the Energetics Lab at the Celebration of Students Scholarship of Northern Michigan University last week. Great success & very good step before the upcoming American Society of Mammalogists Meeting in June at Norfolk 🥳

this fall she will be a tenure track assistant professor at @macalestercollege in Minnesota. I’m not a great educator. Certainly not a wonderful researcher. But I AM a great talent scout. And I owe my career to students like Ruth. It’s been an honor. 2/2

Very proud of our students cohort for this 2026 Spring Graduation & Commencement at Northern Michigan University (NMU). Some students from the Energetics Lab were graduating. We wish all the best to all of the these new graduates. Congratulation to all new NMU Graduates 🎊🎊🥳🥳🎉🎉

Consider attending the American Society of Mammalogist (ASM) Meeting at Norfolk this summer (June 12-15) and Join the symposium co organized by Jessica LaPrice & myself on flexible and inflexible responses in heterothermic species. This will be a fun symposium! mammalmeetings.org/program/symp...

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Flexible vs. Programmed? Responses to Environmental Extremes in Mammalian Heterotherms Date: TBD Time: TBD Location: TBD Speakers: Austin Allison, Mallory Ballinger, Malcolm Reimer, Cory Williams T…

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The Biology Seminar Series is thrilled to announce the seminar of Dr Chloe Fouilloux, a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UW-Madison, on Seasonal Immune Timing Alters Parasites Growth & Transmission in a Multi-Host System, hold hybrid at NMU Mead Auditorium and via Zoom. uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97861612977

The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Spring 2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration!

Make sure to join Science on Tap on next Tuesday (3/10) to hear about the secret lives of blue spotted salamanders from Dr Jill Leonard!!

First pilot study of the Northern Michigan University Energetics Lab on black bears across the Michigan Upper Peninsula! The ultimate project’s goal is to study the unique adaptations, e.g. thermoregulation & body protein sparing, during the hibernation fast & inactivity of the American black bear.

Save The Date! Science on Tap on Tuesday March 10th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery. Come to listen to Dr Jill Leonard talking about her latest research on “The Secret Lives of Blue Spotted Salamanders". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

SAVE THE DATE! The 105th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists will be June 12 – 15, 2026 in Norfolk, Virginia Come back soon for announcements, updates, and more specific information! mammalmeetings.org

105th ASM Annual Meeting

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Science on Tap on Tuesday February 10th @ 7 pm at Blackrocks Brewery! Come to listen to Dr Libby Ives talking about his research on “Advances and Retreat, Rise and Fall: How glaciers reshaped the Upper Peninsula". Sponsored by Biology & EEGs Departments.

Read this month's Editors' choice paper, Seasonal increase in blood serum osmolality reflects environmental harshness in the striped mouse: a decade-long field study by Carsten Schradin & co journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution

Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution

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Check out the last IHS research seminar by Dr Roberto Nespolo from Austral University of Chile. Insightful lessons from a South American hibernator on heterothermic adaptations to climate change.

Roberto Nespolo IHS seminar January 2026

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Unfortunately Science on Tap has to be cancelled this month. Next Date on February 10th. Stay Tune & Happy New Year!

#COP30 🌍 Face à la désinformation sur le climat, le CNRS se positionne comme garant de l’intégrité de l’information scientifique et de la lutte contre la manipulation du débat climatique.

« Le rôle des scientifiques n’est pas d’arbitrer entre les « pour » et les « contre », nous devons apporter des connaissances »

Alors que s’ouvre la COP30 à Belém (Brésil), l’intégrité de l’information entre pour la première fois dans le programme d’action d’une COP.

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The International Hibernation Society is happy to release the Seasonal Hibernation Highlights for the Winter 2025-2026. Enjoy reading the latest research on Torpor & Hibernation as Seasonal Adaptative Strategies and as Biomimicry Inspiration! @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social

First post intro: We are the largest concentration of seasonal Chronobiologists in the world based above the arctic circle in Tromsø. We address: - How animals time changes in their Physiology using the daylength - What is the impact of arctic, and, human light in health and physiology

Our latest work on the earliest events in the brain of an hibernator: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

c-fos induction in the choroid plexus, tanycytes and pars tuberalis is an early indicator of spontaneous arousal from torpor in a deep hibernator

Highlighted Article: Three non-neuronal sites previously linked to control of metabolic physiology over seasonal and daily time scales show a peak in c-fos expression at the initiation of arousal from...

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A perspective piece on the role of tanycytes in hibernation: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @woodlab-arctic.bsky.social @inthibsoc.bsky.social

Perspective: rheostasis revisited—hibernation and tanycytes - Journal of Comparative Physiology B

Mammalian hibernation is a physiological and behavioural adaptation that permits survival during seasonal periods of energy shortage via a combination of pre-hibernal energy storage and hibernal metab...

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