From November 22nd till December 6th, Frédéric Silvestre will visit the University of Otago in the South-East city of Dunedin, New Zealand. It’s the first visit of Frédéric at Otago even if he’s been collaborating with Dr Aniruddha Chatterjee since 2014. This long-term friendship has recently resulted in the first framework collaboration agreement between the…
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New academic position in biodiversity
We’re happy to announce that our research unit at UNamur (Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology) is hiring a new assistant professor (lecturer – chargé de cours) to start in September 2025. The research topics are broad but oriented towards biodiversity, field ecology and conservation biology of aquatic ecosystems (it can be expanded to…
Master thesis 2025 at LEAP
The topics available to work on a master thesis at LEAP are available here. Please don’t wait too long to contact us as the number of places are limited.
New publication in collaboration with our colleagues of Nancy
UNamur and ULorraine are collaborating for few years on a topics related to fish domestication and acclimation/adaptation to a controlled environment. A first article has been published by Céline Chevalier in the excellent journal “Biological Research” and can be found here. The title is “Comparative study of the growth, stress status and reproductive capabilities of…
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…
Field trip 2024 in the Pyrenean
The summer 2024 pluridisciplinary field trip took 31 students from all scientific disciplines to the Pyrenean mountains, in South of France. It was the 3rd time that it was organized in this beautiful region, but it brought us new observations. This year, we had the opportunity to clearly observe several river otters in the river…
New research project in Ecuator
We are proud and happy to start a new collaboration with the Universidad Central del Ecuador, thanks to ARES-CCD starting grants: https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=c95463d02ed96d28ee34e579d&id=398cacc780 Our project aims to develop a populational epigenomic approach with a goal of conservation biology in this high biodiversity spot. More field missions in perspective !
LEAP was at Banyuls for the ECOBIM 2024 conference
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…
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…