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…
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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…
Nothobranchius symposium 2017
For the first time, our lab attended the Nothobranchius symposium at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne (https://indico.age.mpg.de/event/19/). This killifish species is our new killifish model species just arrived in the lab for the PhD thesis of Antoine Wittorski and the master thesis of Jessica Ody. It is a new model of choice to study…
Ecobim conference in Bordeaux
This year, the conference Ecobim has been held at the University of Bordeaux (http://ecobim.ca/colloques/ecobim-2018/). This conference put together specialists in ecotoxicology from the french speaking countries, mainly France and Canada. Since 2017, Belgium is also participating, as well as 6 other countries. Frédéric Silvestre, Julie Hetru and Angèle Markey were present in Bordeaux. Julie gave…
Best poster for Morgane Van Antro
Our former master student Morgane Van Antro won the award for the best poster at the 2017 Benelux Congress of Zoology held at Wageningen (link). After Anne-Sophie Voisin award in 2014, it’s the second time that our laboratory has such a success to this international conference mainly focused on young researchers. The poster presented by…
Free recordings SETAC conferences
Free recordings of the SETAC conferences, including the last conference in Orlando, are available here : http://setac.sclivelearningcenter.com/index.aspx?PID=9486&SID=215610. Three recordings from our lab are available when typing Falisse or Silvestre.
Upcoming International Conferences
– Evolution 2016 : 17 – 21 June 2016, Austin, Texas : http://www.evolutionmeetings.org/evolution-2016—austin-texas.html – Evolution 2017 : 23 – 27 June 2017, Portland, Oregon : http://www.evolutionmeetings.org/future-meetings-2017.html – SOT (Society of Toxicology) annual meeting 2016 : 13 – 17 March 2016 , New Orleans, Louisiana : http://www.toxicology.org/events/am/AM2016/index.asp – SOT (Society of Toxicology) annual meeting 2017 :…