After having organized the ECOBIM conference in Namur in 2022, the LEAP was present in Banyuls-sur-mer (La Sorbonne University) for the 2024 edition: https://ecobim.sciencesconf.org/. Julie Hetru presented a poster and a flash talk about her PhD project on turquoise killifish epigenetic clock and ecotoxicology, while Frederic Silvestre attended the meeting as a representative of the…
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A new post-doc researcher at LEAP !
We are happy to welcome Dr Noëmie Guirandy as a post-doc researcher in the rivulus team. Noëmie has recently been graduated from the University of Aix-Marseille after a dissertation on the reprotoxicity of gamma irradiation on zebrafish. She will be working on long-term effects of pollutants on the mangrove rivulus and will initiate an evolutionary…
Frédéric has been reelected at the RBZS
After a first term of 2 years, Frédéric Silvestre has been reelected at the Presidency of the Royal Belgian Zoological Society for a second and last term. This scientific society was created in 1863 and is dedicated to put together scientists involved in animal research in its broadest sense, including evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, conservation…
LEAP was at SICB annual conference !
Frédéric Silvestre was participating to the annual conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology that was held in Seattle from 2nd to 6th of January 2024. It was the biggest SICB conference with more than 2000 oral presentations in fields like behavioral ecology, adaptive morphology or evolutionary physiology. Frederic gave a talk entitled:…
Congrats to Justine for her nomination at “Bauchau Award”
Our teaching assistant Justine Belik has showed all her scientific and pedagogic skills during the 2023 “Prix Adrien Bauchau” for the best master thesis. She unfortunately didn’t have the prize but did impress all the auditorium with her maturity. For sure she will have other awards !
PhD theses defenses
December is usually the month of the PhD theses defenses. Frédéric Silvestre was in the jury board of 3 excellent works in Namur, Brussels and Nantes. First, Mark Holmes has presented his work about stability modelling in a competitive community subject to environmental changes. He has been working in our research unit at UNamur under…
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…
Festival International Nature Namur 2023
The FINN is a festival dedicated to nature movies and photography. Every year, UNamur has a booth where the best pictures taken by our students during the summer field trip (this year in Bavaria – Germany) are exhibited. Frédéric Silvestre also participated to a round table during the environmental focus about biodiversity and cohabitation between…
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…
Master thesis proposals at LEAP for 2024
LEAP is proposing 2 topics for new master students who are dedicated to study killifish in a perspective of behavior and epigenetic mechanisms. You can find the description of the proposals here.