LEAP and the URBE were massively represented at the Benelux Congress of Zoology (14 URBE members – a record) organized in Mons by the Royal Belgian Zoological Society. These two days gave the opportunity to young researchers to present their first results or even their thesis project during a talk or a poster session. All…
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Frédéric’s mission to Otago University
Frédéric Silvestre recently spent two weeks at the University of Otago in Dunedin, located in the southeastern region of New Zealand. This visit provided an excellent opportunity to strengthen the longstanding collaboration, initiated in 2014, with Dr. Aniruddha Chatterjee, a renowned expert in cancer epigenetics and professor in the Department of Pathology. During his stay,…
3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
The 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology was held in Montreal in July 2024. It is a huge scientific conference (17 sessions in parallel), regrouping European and North American Evolutionary Biology Societies every 4 years. Justine Bélik and Frédéric Silvestre presented their researches on the mangrove rivulus during the special symposium on Adaptive Epigenetics. For…
LEAP was at Banyuls for the ECOBIM 2024 conference
After having organized the ECOBIM conference in Namur in 2022, the LEAP was present in Banyuls-sur-mer (La Sorbonne University) for the 2024 edition: https://ecobim.sciencesconf.org/. Julie Hetru presented a poster and a flash talk about her PhD project on turquoise killifish epigenetic clock and ecotoxicology, while Frederic Silvestre attended the meeting as a representative of the…
LEAP was at SICB annual conference !
Frédéric Silvestre was participating to the annual conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology that was held in Seattle from 2nd to 6th of January 2024. It was the biggest SICB conference with more than 2000 oral presentations in fields like behavioral ecology, adaptive morphology or evolutionary physiology. Frederic gave a talk entitled:…
Benelux Congress of Zoology in Kortrijk
Eventually, after the covid period, the Royal Belgian Zoological Society could organize the Benelux Congress of Zoology face-to-face in Kortrijk, the 22nd and 23rd of September 2022. We had very diverse talks about many animal species, such the one of our post-doc AnthonyMathiron on the immediate and delayed effects of an insecticide on the mangrove…
Radio podcast on RTBF
Frédéric Silvestre have shared with his colleague Krishna Das, from the University of Liège, a radio show called “Les éclaireurs” broadcasted on the french-speaking Belgian first public radio channel (RTBF – La Première). The podcast was animated by the excellent journalist Fabienne Vande Meersshe and can be found on RTBF Auvio here. During 46 minutes,…
The next Ecobim conference in Namur !
The 17th Ecobim conference will be held in Namur, from 11th to 13th of May 2022. Ecobim is an international french-speaking scientific organization aiming at sharing research results in aquatic ecotoxicology. People from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and more are annually meeting for a 3-days scientific sessions. We are pleased to organize…
Environmental epigenetics workshop at Örebro, Sweden
Our laboratory massively participated to the first Environmental Epigenetics workshop that was organized at the University of Örebro in Sweden, the 21st and 22nd of February 2019. It was the opportunity for F Silvestre, A Carion, V Chapelle and A Wittorski to meet other researchers deeply involved in the environmental and evolutionary questions linked to…
ISBE conference 2018
Alessandra Carion and Frederic Silvestre attended the conference ISBE 2018 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, from August 11th to 16th. This conference is organized every other year by the International Society for Behavioral Ecology and bring together scientists working on animal behavior in a context of ecology and evolution. Alessandra presented few results obtained recently for her…