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…
Category: Turquoise killifish
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…
Antoine Wittorski last days with us
After 6 years of working with us as a teaching assistant, Antoine Wittorski finished his contract at UNamur. Thanks for all the work done, Antoine, and good luck for the next steps in your career.
Sonia Gaaied is our new post-doc
Sonia Gaaied has arrived for a short-term post-doc in LEAP. She’s just obtained her PhD from the Institute of biotechnology of Monastir in Tunisia, in the lab of our collaborator Mohamed Banni. She obtained a grant from WBI (Wallonie Bruxelles International) to work in Namur on the effects of a neurotoxicant on the turquoise killifish…
Master thesis projects 2020
The new master thesis subjects are available for the year 2020. There is a project on the mangrove rivulus and one on the turquoise killifish. You can find a short description here.
Nothobranchius symposium 2017
For the first time, our lab attended the Nothobranchius symposium at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne (https://indico.age.mpg.de/event/19/). This killifish species is our new killifish model species just arrived in the lab for the PhD thesis of Antoine Wittorski and the master thesis of Jessica Ody. It is a new model of choice to study…
Arrival of the turquoise killifish
Our lab has just welcomed a new killifish species, the turquoise killifish Nothobranchius furzeri. This species lives in freshwater ponds of south east Africa and presents the particularity to be the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan. Antoine Wittorski is starting his PhD on the species from a comparative point of view in order to investigate…