We are pleased to announce two fully funded PhD positions within our new research project on the St. Lawrence River Beluga whale population in Quebec. Read the official announcement of the project by FNRS here. More informations on the project news can be found here. One PhD position will be based in Montreal, in the…
Category: PhD thesis
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…
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…
Valentine is a PhD !
We are happy to announce that our PhD student Valentine Chapelle has successfully passed her public PhD defence at UNamur, the 14th of March 2023. She explained to a broad public the epigenetic and behavioral variability among four natural populations of mangrove rivulus, along a genetic diversity gradient. Thank you to all the jury members…
New article in Aquatic Toxicology
Our new research article is now online in Aquatic Toxicology. It investigates the effects of methylmercury exposure in early life stages of mangrove rivulus fish at behavioral, gene expression and methylation levels. Congrats to Valentine Chapelle for her work! This article is a part of her PhD thesis. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gias,3oDQuOF4
Jury thesis in Marseille
Frédéric Silvestre has been invited in the PhD thesis jury of Noemie Guirandy about the reprotoxicity of gamma irradiance on zebrafish. Great thesis co-supervised by the Université of Aix-Marseille, the IRSN (Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire), and the University f Bordeaux. The defense has been held in a beautiful site at the castle…
Jury thesis in Corsica
Frédéric Silvestre spent two days in Bastia, Corsica, as the president of the jury for the evaluation of the PhD thesis of Ouafa El Idrissi, within a joint program from the Universities of Corse (Corte) and of Liège. This excellent thesis developped the sea urchin Paracentridus lividus as a bioindicator species to assess trace elements pollution…