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Category: Ecotoxicology

July 29, 2025July 29, 2025

New PhD position to work on the Beluga whale

We are pleased to announce two fully funded PhD positions within our new research project on the St. Lawrence River Beluga whale population in Quebec. Read the official announcement of the project by FNRS here. More informations on the project news can be found here. One PhD position will be based in Montreal, in the…

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May 25, 2024June 21, 2024

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…

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May 16, 2024

A new post-doc researcher at LEAP !

We are happy to welcome Dr Noëmie Guirandy as a post-doc researcher in the rivulus team. Noëmie has recently been graduated from the University of Aix-Marseille after a dissertation on the reprotoxicity of gamma irradiation on zebrafish. She will be working on long-term effects of pollutants on the mangrove rivulus and will initiate an evolutionary…

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August 16, 2023

New publication from Anthony Mathiron

Our new article has been written by our former post-doc researcher, Anthony Mathiron, and has been published in the excellent Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology (IF 5.8). It looks at the use of the photomotor response test (PMR) in animals in the context of ecotoxicology. The PMR test can be used to observe the effects of…

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April 26, 2023

New publication about the insecticide permethrin

Our post-doc researcher Anthony Mathiron just published a research article in Aquatic Toxicology about the immediate and delayed effects of the insecticide permethrin on our fish model, the mangrove rivulus. This species is becoming a great model choice for ecotoxicology studies and the roles of epigenetics, showing a naturally very low level of genetic diversity….

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March 8, 2023

New article in Aquatic Toxicology

Our new research article is now online in Aquatic Toxicology. It investigates the effects of methylmercury exposure in early life stages of mangrove rivulus fish at behavioral, gene expression and methylation levels. Congrats to Valentine Chapelle for her work! This article is a part of her PhD thesis. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gias,3oDQuOF4

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October 24, 2022

Jury thesis in Corsica

Frédéric Silvestre spent two days in Bastia, Corsica, as the president of the jury for the evaluation of the PhD thesis of Ouafa El Idrissi, within a joint program from the Universities of Corse (Corte) and of Liège. This excellent thesis developped the sea urchin Paracentridus lividus as a bioindicator species to assess trace elements pollution…

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October 1, 2022October 17, 2022

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,…

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February 20, 2022

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…

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May 18, 2021

New article in Epigenetics

A new article has been published in the specialised journal “Epigenetics” in collaboration with our partner Anirhudda Chatterjee from the University of Otago. It the last part of  the PhD thesis of Anne-Sophie Voisin who aimed to investigate the long-term effects of an early life stage exposure to the endocrine disruptor ethinyl estradiol (EE2) in…

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