We’re proud to welcome Valentine Chapelle in our lab for the next 4 years. After a great MSc thesis on the mangrove rivulus heritability of personalities, Valentine successfully got a FRIA grant from FNRS. She will continue her work started during her master thesis and will evaluate the origin of epigenetic variability in natural populations…
Category: epigenetics
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 about epigenetics in the mangrove rivulus
Our former post-doc researcher Alexandre Fellous has published the first data on histone methyltransferase (Kmt) and demethylase (Kdm) enzymes in our killifish model, the mangrove rivulus. This article has been published in the journal “Gene” and is a starting point to deeper analyze histone modifications during embryogenesis and the implication of epigenetic mechanisms in adaptation…
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…
Arrival of the turquoise killifish
Our lab has just welcomed a new killifish species, the turquoise killifish Nothobranchius furzeri. This species lives in freshwater ponds of south east Africa and presents the particularity to be the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan. Antoine Wittorski is starting his PhD on the species from a comparative point of view in order to investigate…
New article published in Ecology and Evolution
A first article on our work on epigenetics in the mangrove rivulus has been published in the journal “Ecology and Evolution”. This article published by Alexandre Fellous depicts the DNA methylation profile of this fish, in adults and during embryogenesis. It also characterizes the main enzymes involved in this process. Altogether, our findings open the…
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…
Elodie Falisse is graduated
Congratulations to Elodie who has brilliantly defended her PhD dissertation in February 2018. During 2h, she explained and discussed her main results obtained during 6 years of teaching assistantship at UNamur. She has been working on the effects of the bactericide triclosan on the zebrafish. Originally, she combined physiological, biochemical, proteomics, epigenetics and behavioral approaches…
Congratulations to our MSc students
Our MSc students Morgane Van Antro and Toa Avalos Cascante have brightly defended their thesis and have now left Belgium for international internships. Their works investigated how the mangrove rivulus responds to environmental stress during early life stages. Some amazing results will be published during the following months.
Two new articles published
LEAP has just published two new scientific articles that are now available online. First one is our first article related to epigenetics in the zebrafish and is the result of Jennifer Dorts work (with the help of Elodie Falisse ane Enora Flamion). We emphasize the effects of environmental stressors during the embryogenesis of this model…