After a long waiting time due to the Covid crisis (postponed since summer 2020), our PhD student Ivan Blanco has finally arrived in Maryland to work with Professor Eric S. Haag during 2 months. He aims to use microinjection techniques to knock-down some genes in the early embryo of the mangrove rivulus. He will gain…
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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…
Visit of Ryan Earley in Namur
Last week, we were very glad to welcome our collaborator from the University of Alabama, Dr Ryan Earley, for a 4 days visit in Namur. Ryan is the world specialist of the mangrove rivulus and has been on the field in Belize with us to study this fish population. It was first time Ryan visited…
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 !
Master thesis projects 2020
The new master thesis subjects are available for the year 2020. There is a project on the mangrove rivulus and one on the turquoise killifish. You can find a short description here.
The mission to Belize is a success !
In May 2019, Frédéric Silvestre and Valentine Chapelle organized a field trip to Belize to work on mangrove rivulus. This mission was dedicated to investigate two populations of mangrove rivulus: on Twin Caye and on Long Caye. The one from Twin Caye (in South Water Marine Reserve) is exceptional. It shows the higher rate of…
Best presentation for Alessandra Carion
Our PhD student Alessandra Carion won the award of the best oral presentation at the ILEE research day, UNamur. ILEE is the Institute of Life, Earth and Environment and put together laboratories from different fields (Biology, Geology, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Law, History,…). It was the first research day organized since the Institutes exists. Alessandra presented…
Histone acetylation in the mangrove Rivulus
Third article in a row for our former post-doc Alexandre Fellous who has just published in the journal “Gene” his third article about epigenetics in our fish model, the mangrove Rivulus. He described the 27 enzymes involved in histone acetylation (KAT) and 17 in deacetylation (HDAC) as well as their dynamics during embryogenesis. This study aimed…