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Bertanne Visser is a Researcher at the University of Tours, France, affiliated with the Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (UMR 7261) within the Faculty of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on evolutionary biology, parasitoid ecology, and lipid metabolism in insects. She holds a PhD from VU University Amsterdam (2007–2011) and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Florida, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and Tours University. Her work examines trait regression and reversion in parasitoids, particularly lipid synthesis loss linked to parasitic lifestyles.
Research interests include evolutionary consequences of trait loss, lipid synthesis mechanisms in parasitoids, and ecological interactions driving phenotypic changes. She has published extensively on topics like parasitoid resource use, sex allocation strategies, and metabolic adaptations. Her work spans collaborations across Europe and North America.
Grants and funding include FNRS awards, ULiège grants, and EU MSCA support. She has advised multiple researchers and contributed to lab expansions, including equipment upgrades for mass spectrometry and climate chambers. Her team explores topics like bet-hedging strategies, climate impacts on phenotypic plasticity, and microbial influences on insect metabolism.
Visser advocates for academic integrity, co-signing open letters against budget cuts to French-speaking universities and supporting investigations into harassment cases. She maintains a lab focused on interdisciplinary approaches to insect biology at ULiège's Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech campus.
