🧬 Do you know what an epigenetic clock is? Throughout an organism’s life, epigenetic marks (such as DNA methylation) change in predictable ways. By analysing these marks, we can infer the chronological age of an individual. These predictive models, called epigenetic clocks, have been built across the tree of life: in humans, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish,…
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The first epigenetic clock on the mangrove rivulus is in preprint !
Justine Bélik has published as a preprint the first epigenetic clock in the mangrove rivulus, and the first ever on a self-fertilizing species. She has been working on brain tissue samples from 96 individuals from Emerson Point Preserve, Florida, up to 1000 days of age. With this clock, we’re able to predict the chronological age…
3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology
The 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology was held in Montreal in July 2024. It is a huge scientific conference (17 sessions in parallel), regrouping European and North American Evolutionary Biology Societies every 4 years. Justine Bélik and Frédéric Silvestre presented their researches on the mangrove rivulus during the special symposium on Adaptive Epigenetics. For…
New article in Epigenetics
A new article has been published in the specialised journal “Epigenetics” in collaboration with our partner Anirhudda Chatterjee from the University of Otago. It the last part of the PhD thesis of Anne-Sophie Voisin who aimed to investigate the long-term effects of an early life stage exposure to the endocrine disruptor ethinyl estradiol (EE2) in…