Dr Jerome Buhl

Senior Lecturer

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

Faculty of Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Jerome Buhl is a Senior Lecturer in Plant Protection the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide. He combines lab and field experiments with computational biology and field robotics to study insect collective behaviour and its application to agriculture and pest control.

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Current research projects - Insect Collective Behaviour

Locust collective movement

To develop a better understanding of locust collective movement, we are combining lab and field experiments (which involve innovative techniques such as tracking individuals with a UAV) with computer simulations, which allow us to simulate up to millions of locusts using CUDA (parrallel computation on graphic cards). Ultimately, our goal is to build a model that will provide control operations with a better knowledge of band movement and trajectories so that improved methods such as barrier spraying can be optimized.

Collective nutrition in social insects

Nutrition is at the centre of most collective behaviour phenomena. In social insects such as ants and termites, foraging is handled by a sub-group of workers who not only have to fulfil their own nutritional requirements but also provide the rest of the colony with the nutrients they require. How does the information pertaining to the nutritional state of the colony flows and how do workers adapt their foraging strategies in order to achieve efficient communal nutrition? We will tackle these questions using a combination of lab experiments, tracking nutrients with fluorescent dies and individuals with miniature barcodes, and computer simulations implementing the behaviour and nutritional processes as well as their evolution.

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Appointments

Date	Position	Institution name
2014	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
2012 - 2016	ARC Future Fellow	University of Sydney
2006 - 2012	Postdoctoral fellow	University of Sydney
2005 - 2006	Postdoctoral fellow	University of Oxford

Awards and Achievements

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2012 Fellowship ARC Future Fellowship Australian Research Council Australia $652,148
Language Competencies

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
French Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
2012	Fellowship	ARC Future Fellowship	Australian Research Council	Australia	$652,148

Language	Competency
English	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
French	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2000 - 2004	Paul Sabatier University	France	PhD
1999 - 2000	Paul Sabatier University	France	Master of Research, Biology
1996 - 1999	Louis Pasteur University	France	Licence+Maitrise of Biology

Research Interests

Behavioural Ecology Biological Mathematics Entomology Evolutionary Biology Simulation and Modelling

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Journals

Year	Citation
2020	Poissonnier, L., Simpson, S. J., Dussutour, A., & Buhl, J. (2020). Regulation of macronutrient intake in termites: a dietary self-selection experiment.. Journal of insect physiology, 120, 103983. DOI Scopus1
2019	Poissonnier, L. A., Motsch, S., Gautrais, J., Buhl, J., & Dussutour, A. (2019). Experimental investigation of ant traffic under crowded conditions. eLife, 8, e48945-1-e48945-18. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2018	Lihoreau, M., Gómez-Moracho, T., Pasquaretta, C., Costa, J., & Buhl, J. (2018). Social nutrition: an emerging field in insect science. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 28, 73-80. DOI Scopus3 WoS4 Europe PMC1
2018	Poissonnier, L., Arganda, S., Simpson, S., Dussutour, A., & Buhl, J. (2018). Nutrition in extreme food specialists: an illustration using termites. Functional Ecology, 32(11), 2531-2541. DOI Scopus4 WoS5
2018	Poissonnier, L., Lihoreau, M., Gomez-Moracho, T., Dussutour, A., & Buhl, J. (2018). A theoretical exploration of dietary collective medication in social insects. Journal of Insect Physiology, 106(1), 78-87. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
2017	Cullen, D., Cease, A., Latchininsky, A., Ayali, A., Berry, K., Buhl, J., . . . Rogers, S. (2017). From Molecules to Management: Mechanisms and Consequences of Locust Phase Polyphenism. INSECT EPIGENETICS, 53, 167-285. DOI Scopus32 WoS32
2017	Lihoreau, M., Charleston, M., Senior, A., Clissold, F., Raubenheimer, D., Simpson, S., & Buhl, J. (2017). Collective foraging in spatially complex nutritional environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science, 372(1727), 20160238-1-20160238-11. DOI Scopus17 WoS15 Europe PMC10
2016	Lihoreau, M., Clarke, I., Buhl, J., Sumpter, D., & Simpson, S. (2016). 1ollective selection of food patches in Drosophila. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(5), 668-675. DOI Scopus30 WoS30 Europe PMC16
2016	Senior, A., Lihoreau, M., Buhl, J., Raubenheimer, D., & Simpson, S. (2016). Social network analysis and nutritional behavior: an integrated modeling approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JAN), 18-1-18-10. DOI Scopus12 WoS10 Europe PMC7
2016	Dussutour, A., Poissonnier, L., Buhl, J., & Simpson, S. (2016). Resistance to nutritional stress in ants: When being fat is advantageous. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(6), 824-833. DOI Scopus19 WoS18 Europe PMC9
2016	Hu, F., Escudero, C., Buhl, J., & Simpson, S. (2016). Application of quorum response and information entropy to animal collective motion modeling. Complexity, 21(S1), 584-592. DOI
2016	Senior, A., Lihoreau, M., Charleston, M., Buhl, J., Raubenheimer, D., & Simpson, S. (2016). Adaptive collective foraging in groups with conflicting nutritional needs. Royal Society Open Science, 3(4), 150638-1-150638-15. DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC5
2016	Buhl, J., & Rogers, S. (2016). Mechanisms underpinning aggregation and collective movement by insect groups. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 15, 125-130. DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC1
2015	Herbert-Read, J., Buhl, J., Hu, F., Ward, A., & Sumpter, D. (2015). Initiation and spread of escape waves within animal groups. Royal Society Open Science, 2(4), 1403550-1-140355-11. DOI Scopus49 WoS44 Europe PMC27
2015	Romey, W., Smith, A., & Buhl, J. (2015). Flash expansion and the repulsive herd. Animal Behaviour, 110, 171-178. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2015	Dyson, L., Yates, C., Buhl, J., & McKane, A. (2015). Onset of collective motion in locusts is captured by a minimal model. Physical Review E, 92(5), 052708-1-052708-7. DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC3
2015	Lihoreau, M., Buhl, J., Charleston, M., Sword, G., Raubenheimer, D., & Simpson, S. (2015). Nutritional ecology beyond the individual: a conceptual framework for integrating nutrition and social interactions. Ecology Letters, 18(3), 273-286. DOI Scopus54 WoS51 Europe PMC27
2015	Senior, A., Charleston, M., Lihoreau, M., Buhl, J., Raubenheimer, D., & Simpson, S. (2015). Evolving nutritional strategies in the presence of competition: a geometric agent-based model. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(3), e1004111-1-e1004111-24. DOI Scopus22 WoS20 Europe PMC11
2014	Gautrais, J., Buhl, J., Valverde, S., Kuntz, P., & Theraulaz, G. (2014). The role of colony size on tunnel branching morphogenesis in ant nests. PLoS One, 9(10), e109436-1-e109436-11. DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC5
2014	Lihoreau, M., Buhl, J., Charleston, M., Sword, G., Raubenheimer, D., & Simpson, S. (2014). Modelling nutrition across organizational levels: from individuals to superorganisms. Journal of Insect Physiology, 69(C), 2-11. DOI Scopus28 WoS29 Europe PMC15
2012	Cummings, D., Buhl, J., Lee, R., Simpson, S., & Holmes, S. (2012). Estimating niche width using stable isotopes in the face of habitat variability: a modelling case study in the marine environment. PLoS One, 7(8), e40539-1-e40539-14. DOI Scopus23 WoS23 Europe PMC7
2012	Buhl, J., Sword, G., & Simpson, S. (2012). Using field data to test locust migratory band collective movement models. Interface Focus, 2(6), 757-763. DOI Scopus21 WoS17 Europe PMC10
2011	Buhl, J., Sword, G., Clissold, F., & Simpson, S. (2011). Group structure in locust migratory bands. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65(2), 265-273. DOI Scopus36 WoS33
2011	Hansen, M., Buhl, J., Bazazi, S., Simpson, S., & Sword, G. (2011). Cannibalism in the lifeboat - collective movement in Australian plague locusts. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65(9), 1715-1720. DOI Scopus30 WoS27
2010	Escudero, C., Yates, C., Buhl, J., Couzin, I., Erban, R., Kevrekidis, I., & Maini, P. (2010). Ergodic directional switching in mobile insect groups. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 82(1), 6 pages. DOI Scopus12 WoS11 Europe PMC2
2009	Yates, C., Erban, R., Escudero, C., Couzin, I., Buhl, J., Kevrekidis, I., . . . Sumpter, D. (2009). Inherent noise can facilitate coherence in collective swarm motion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(14), 5464-5469. DOI Scopus182 WoS171 Europe PMC48
2009	Buhl, J., Hicks, K., Miller, E., Persey, S., Alinvi, O., & Sumpter, D. (2009). Shape and efficiency of wood ant foraging networks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(3), 451-460. DOI Scopus52 WoS51
2008	Bazazi, S., Buhl, J., Hale, J., Anstey, M., Sword, G., Simpson, S., & Couzin, I. (2008). Collective motion and cannibalism in locust migratory bands. Current Biology, 18(10), 735-739. DOI Scopus169 WoS154 Europe PMC64
2008	Sumpter, D., Buhl, J., Biro, D., & Couzin, I. (2008). Information transfer in moving animal groups. Theory in Biosciences, 127(2), 177-186. DOI Scopus103 WoS99 Europe PMC41
2006	Buhl, J., Gautrais, J., Reeves, N., Solé, R., Valverde, S., Kuntz, P., & Theraulaz, G. (2006). Topological patterns in street networks of self-organized urban settlements. European Physical Journal B, 49(4), 513-522. DOI Scopus166 WoS144
2006	Buhl, J., Sumpter, D., Couzin, I., Hale, J., Despland, E., Miller, E., & Simpson, S. (2006). From disorder to order in marching locusts. Science, 312(5778), 1402-1406. DOI Scopus656 WoS609 Europe PMC246
2006	Buhl, J., Gautrais, J., Louis Deneubourg, J., Kuntz, P., & Theraulaz, G. (2006). The growth and form of tunnelling networks in ants. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 243(3), 287-298. DOI Scopus42 WoS36 Europe PMC18
2005	Buhl, J., Deneubourg, J., Grimal, A., & Theraulaz, G. (2005). Self-organized digging activity in ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 58(1), 9-17. DOI Scopus49 WoS46
2004	Buhl, J., Gautrais, J., Deneubourg, J., & Theraulaz, G. (2004). Nest excavation in ants: Group size effects on the size and structure of tunneling networks. Naturwissenschaften, 91(12), 602-606. DOI Scopus51 WoS45 Europe PMC17
2004	Buhl, J., Gautrais, J., Solé, R., Kuntz, P., Valverde, S., Deneubourg, J., & Theraulaz, G. (2004). Efficiency and robustness in ant networks of galleries. European Physical Journal B, 42(1), 123-129. DOI Scopus97 WoS91

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2002	Buhl, J., Deneubourg, J. L., & Theraulaz, G. (2002). Self-organized networks of galleries in the ant Messor sancta. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 2463 (pp. 163-175). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI Scopus3

Program		CIs	Title	Funding
ARC Discovery Projects	DP130101670 2013-2016	A/Prof Ashley Ward ; A/Prof Mary Myerscough ; Prof Dr Jens Krause ; Dr Jerome Buhl	Leadership matters: the emergence of informed leaders and their influence on group movement	$360,000
ARC Future Fellowship	FT110100082 2012-2016	Dr Jerome Buhl	From individuals to mass organisation: aggregation, synchronisation and collective movement in locusts	$652,148
ARC Linkage Projects	LP150100479 2015-2018	Prof Stephen Simpson ; Prof Edward Holmes ; Dr Jerome Buhl ; Prof Kenneth Wilson ; Dr James Woodman	Making Green Guard® greener: enhancing the efficacy of a biopesticide	$385,000

- Foundations in Animal Behaviour II: course coordinator and lecturer

- Plant Health III & A: course coordinator and lecturer

- Microbiology and Invertebrate Biology II: lecturer

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2020	Co-Supervisor	Mathematical modelling of self-organisation in social insects	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Nan Wang
2019	Principal Supervisor	Ecological Interactions between two natural enemies of the Light Brown Apple Moth	Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Emma Kate Aspin

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2015 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Nutritional Ecology in Social Insects	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Laure-Anne Poissonnier

Position: Senior Lecturer
Phone: 83130951
Email: jerome.buhl@adelaide.edu.au
Campus: Waite
Building: Waite, floor 1
Room: S1 16a
Org Unit: School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

Dr Jerome Buhl

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Education

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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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