Sonia Gaaied has arrived for a short-term post-doc in LEAP. She’s just obtained her PhD from the Institute of biotechnology of Monastir in Tunisia, in the lab of our collaborator Mohamed Banni. She obtained a grant from WBI (Wallonie Bruxelles International) to work in Namur on the effects of a neurotoxicant on the turquoise killifish…
Category: Ecotoxicology
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…
New article using proteomics in the rivulus
A new publication from our former PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin is now available in Journal of Proteomics. We showed that adult mangrove rivulus exposed during early life stages to an endocrine disrupting chemical (17-alpha-ethinylestradiol) present significant changes on the protein expression profile in brain, liver and gonads in adults, 5 months after the end of…
New article in Daily Science about our review on neurotoxicity
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Article in a belgian newspaper about the review on eco-neurotoxicity
The famous Belgian newspaper “La Libre Belgique” has published a short article regarding our recent review on eco-neurotoxicity published last week in Environment Sciences Europe.
Eco-neurotoxicity review
We’re happy to have published a review about the assessment of neurotoxicity of chemicals on wild species. This review has been published in Environmental Sciences Europe and put together 38 well-recognized scientists. It emphasizes the necessity to assess for neurotoxicity the thousands of chemicals that enter the natural environment due to human activities. Potential neurotoxicity…
New article published on the effects of BMAA on the mangrove rivulus
Our two master students, Julie Hetru and Angèle Markay, published preliminary data during their master thesis under the supervision of Alessandra Carion. It is our first article related to behavioral effects of pollutant exposure (the natural neurotoxin BMAA -ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine) during fish development. It successfully used the mangrove rivulus as an ecotoxicological model to assess the…
New article published in Environmental Pollution
A new article from Elodie Falisse’s thesis has been published in the journal Environmental Pollution. This study is the first in collaboration with Dr Aniruddha Chatterjee from the University of Ortago, New Zealand, which aimed at identifying the epigenetic effects of an exposure to a common pollutant (the antibacterial agent Triclosan) during the development of…
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…
Anne-Sophie Voisin is PhD !
Our former PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin has presented her thesis dissertation the 2nd of May. She was the first PhD student to work and to publish on our model fish species, the mangrove rivulus. She combined phenotypic, proteomic and epigenetic approaches to investigate the delayed effects in adults of an early life exposure to the…