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…
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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. Download QR
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…
Rivulus genome
The genome of our model species, the mangrove rivulus, has been published in Genome Biology and Evolution by a consortium of scientists including our colleague Ryan Earley (Univeristy of Alabama). This publication will improve our researches in proteomics and epigenetics in this amazing fish. http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/18/gbe.evw145.abstract Download QR
LEAP at the North America SETAC meeting
This year, LEAP was well represented at the North America 36th Annual SETAC meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from November 1st to 5th. SETAC is the world most important scientific society of ecotoxicology and environmental toxicology. Elodie Falisse, Anne-Sophie Voisin and Frederic Silvestre all had an oral presentation in different sessions. We also…
Alexandre Fellous in Brazil at the international conference “Evolution”
From the 26th to 30th of June, the international conference “Evolution” was held in Brasil. For the first time, one of our researchers presented an oral communication. The program of this conference can be found here : [pdf_attachment file=”1″ name=”Evolution program”] Thanks to Alexandre Fellous to make the trip and to present a talk entitled ”…