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…
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Field trip marine biology 2019
Like every year, the marine biology field trip has been organized in Brittany for second year bachelor programme students. It is the 20th year that we’re going to Brittany, and more precisely to Plestin-les-Grèves at the wonderful Manoir de Kerallic. Download QR
Summer field trip 2018 video
In 2018, we visited the Provence region in South of France with about 30 students from different scientific disciplines. Let’s watch the short video aout this multidisciplinary field trip. Find all the informations about this field trip @ http://www.stage-scientifique-ete.be Download QR
Biodiversity crisis in Omalius
This month, the first page of the journal of the University of Namur, Omalius, is dedicated to the researches carried out at ILEE (Institute of Life, Earth and Environment) related to the biodiversity crisis. The works of Frederic Silvestre and his colleagues Frederik Delaender, Jonhatan Marescaux, Sabine Henry and Nicolas Dendoncker are summarized. Thanks to…
Visit of the SCK-CEN
On March 25th, we visited the SCK-CEN, the nuclear research center in Mol, With the 3rd year biology students. This visit was the opportunity to be introduced with space biology and the ambitious projects related to space exploration and long term journeys. Many aspects of space biology have been discussed, such as physiological breakdowns, recycling…
Environmental epigenetics workshop at Örebro, Sweden
Our laboratory massively participated to the first Environmental Epigenetics workshop that was organized at the University of Örebro in Sweden, the 21st and 22nd of February 2019. It was the opportunity for F Silvestre, A Carion, V Chapelle and A Wittorski to meet other researchers deeply involved in the environmental and evolutionary questions linked to…
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…
New article in Daily Science about our review on neurotoxicity
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