Since the beginning of October, we’ve been pleased to welcome Julie Hétru, MSc, in our lab to start a PhD on the Turquoise killifish. She is granted by the FSR funds from UNamur and from UCLouvain, in collaboration with our colleagues Prof. Cathy Debier and Melissa Page. Julie is working on the epigenetic changes during…
Category: epigenetics
Editorial in Epigenomes
Frédéric Silvestre has published an editorial view with his colleague Dr Bambarendage (University of Michigan) for a special issue of Epigenomes about environmental epigenetics. This editorial summarises the current questions in ecological and evolutionary epigenetics and introduces the original articles published in this special issue. You can read this editorial here.
LEAP welcomes Dr Sofia Consuegra
Dr Sofia Consuegra from the University of Swansea, Wales, visited our laboratory the 14th of March, as a jury member of Valentine Chapelle’s thesis. Dr Consuegra works on the mangrove killifish, among other species, and investigates epigenetic mechanisms, very close to what we’re doing. It was great opportunity to start future collaborations.
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
Review article in Epigenomes
Our PhD student Valentine Chapelle has published a review article in the specialized journal “Epigenomes” entitled “Population epigenetics: the extent of DNA methylation variation in wild animal populations“. In this article, Valentine brought together the up-to-date research studies investigating the DNA methylation variability in wild animal species. This is an important step into the understanding…
Special issue of Epigenomes on the way
Frederic Silvestre has been invited as a guest-editor with Dr. Bambarendage Perera for a special issue of the scientific journal Epigenomes, focusing on environmental epigenetics. Submissions are open ! https://www.mdpi.com/journal/epigenomes/special_issues/environmental_epigenomes
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…
Ivan Blanco is our new PhD student
Congratulations to Ivan Blanco who will work in LEAP for the next four years to achieve a PhD thesis on the mangrove rivulus. Ivan just obtained a grant from the FNRS (FRIA) to work on the mating system of the self-fertilizing fish mangrove rivulus. In this species, hermaphrodites can either self-fertilize or outcross with a…
New research project on the mangrove rivulus
LEAP received a nice Saint-Nicolas present from FNRS with a grant for a research project entitled “The epigenetic origin of behavioral traits variability in a self-fertilizing fish: the mangrove rivulus”. One of the greatest challenges in evolutionary biology is to determine how epigenetic mechanisms contribute to phenotypic variability, on which selection can act. The general…
Alessandra Carion thesis
Alessandra Carion defended her PhD thesis to her jury in the private defense. She did a great job and we’re looking forward for the public defense. Book the 20th of February at 14h30 in your agenda !