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…
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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…
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…
Field trip to Florida
In January 2018, a team from our lab visited the Florida mangroves in order to sample the mangrove Rivulus in its natural habitat. Morgane, Victoria and Frederic travelled from as North as Emerson Point (Manatee County) to the Florida Keys. The main goal of this campaign is to assess the epigenetic variability within and among…
Mangrove Rivulus microhabitat
To spot the mangrove Rivulus, it’s important to first identify the microhabitat they live in. For that, a deep observation of the mangrove is needed. This fish mostly lives where the black and red mangroves are present, where there is a little of water (between 25 and 35 ppt), a lot of mud and leaf…
Best poster for Morgane Van Antro
Our former master student Morgane Van Antro won the award for the best poster at the 2017 Benelux Congress of Zoology held at Wageningen (link). After Anne-Sophie Voisin award in 2014, it’s the second time that our laboratory has such a success to this international conference mainly focused on young researchers. The poster presented by…
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…