Scientific Mission to South Florida – Epigenetics and Environmental Stress in Mangrove Rivulus and Cassiopea Jellyfish – July-August 2025 From July 16 to August 6, 2025, members of the Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology (URBE) undertook a field expedition to South Florida, focusing on the study of two mangrove model species: the self-fertilizing mangrove rivulus…
Category: epigenetic clock
The first epigenetic clock on the mangrove rivulus is in preprint !
Justine Bélik has published as a preprint the first epigenetic clock in the mangrove rivulus, and the first ever on a self-fertilizing species. She has been working on brain tissue samples from 96 individuals from Emerson Point Preserve, Florida, up to 1000 days of age. With this clock, we’re able to predict the chronological age…
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…
New research project on the Beluga whale !
LEAP has been ranked among the 6 best research projects funded by FNRS and FRQ for a scientific collaboration between Wallonia and Quebec involving a team of high quality scientists from both regions: Dr Alice Dennis – UNamur -, Dr Krishna Das – ULiège -, Dr Jonathan Verreault – Université du Québec à Montréal -,…
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…