We are proud and happy to start a new collaboration with the Universidad Central del Ecuador, thanks to ARES-CCD starting grants: https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=c95463d02ed96d28ee34e579d&id=398cacc780 Our project aims to develop a populational epigenomic approach with a goal of conservation biology in this high biodiversity spot. More field missions in perspective !
Category: Grant
New FNRS project at LEAP
We are pleased to announce that the research project entitled “Epigenome stability in mangrove rivulus” has been funded by FNRS. It aims to assess the stability of DNA methylation over time in a highly homozygous and isogenic population of the mangrove rivulus, Kryptolebias marmoratus. It will address two major limitations of ecoepigenetic studies. Firstly, it…
Julie Hétru, our new PhD student
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…
New Pairi Daiza grant
We are glad to announce a new grant for biologists: the Royal Belgian Zoological Society (whose Frederic Silvestre is the president) and the Pairi Daiza Foundation aim to encourage with a grant (2.500 euros) the research done in Zoological gardens and dealing with biodiversity and animal conservation. If you are a zoologist researcher working 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…
Sonia Gaaied is our new post-doc
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…
Valentine is our new PhD student
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…