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. Download QR
Category: mangrove rivulus
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…
New article using proteomics in the rivulus
A new publication from our former PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin is now available in Journal of Proteomics. We showed that adult mangrove rivulus exposed during early life stages to an endocrine disrupting chemical (17-alpha-ethinylestradiol) present significant changes on the protein expression profile in brain, liver and gonads in adults, 5 months after the end of…
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…
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 on the effects of BMAA on the mangrove rivulus
Our two master students, Julie Hetru and Angèle Markay, published preliminary data during their master thesis under the supervision of Alessandra Carion. It is our first article related to behavioral effects of pollutant exposure (the natural neurotoxin BMAA -ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine) during fish development. It successfully used the mangrove rivulus as an ecotoxicological model to assess the…
ISBE conference 2018
Alessandra Carion and Frederic Silvestre attended the conference ISBE 2018 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, from August 11th to 16th. This conference is organized every other year by the International Society for Behavioral Ecology and bring together scientists working on animal behavior in a context of ecology and evolution. Alessandra presented few results obtained recently for her…
Ecobim conference in Bordeaux
This year, the conference Ecobim has been held at the University of Bordeaux (http://ecobim.ca/colloques/ecobim-2018/). This conference put together specialists in ecotoxicology from the french speaking countries, mainly France and Canada. Since 2017, Belgium is also participating, as well as 6 other countries. Frédéric Silvestre, Julie Hetru and Angèle Markey were present in Bordeaux. Julie gave…