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October 20, 2023

Festival International Nature Namur 2023

The FINN is a festival dedicated to nature movies and photography. Every year, UNamur has a booth where the best pictures taken by our students during the summer field trip (this year in Bavaria – Germany) are exhibited. Frédéric Silvestre also participated to a round table during the environmental focus about biodiversity and cohabitation between…

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October 20, 2023

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…

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October 10, 2023October 10, 2023

Master thesis proposals at LEAP for 2024

LEAP is proposing 2 topics for new master students who are dedicated to study killifish in a perspective of behavior and epigenetic mechanisms. You can find the description of the proposals here.

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October 10, 2023

Editorial in Epigenomes

Frédéric Silvestre has published an editorial view with his colleague Dr Bambarendage (University of Michigan) for a special issue of Epigenomes about environmental epigenetics. This editorial summarises the current questions in ecological and evolutionary epigenetics and introduces the original articles published in this special issue. You can read this editorial here.

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August 16, 2023

New publication from Anthony Mathiron

Our new article has been written by our former post-doc researcher, Anthony Mathiron, and has been published in the excellent Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology (IF 5.8). It looks at the use of the photomotor response test (PMR) in animals in the context of ecotoxicology. The PMR test can be used to observe the effects of…

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June 3, 2023June 3, 2023

A field expedition in the mangrove of Belize

Version français en bas de page In May 2023, Justine Belik (young teaching assistant), Ivan Blanco (FRIA doctoral researcher) and myself (Frédéric Silvestre – professor) travelled to Belize, a small Central American country, to work on our favorite model fish: the mangrove rivulus. This killifish averages 3cm in adult size and is found exclusively in…

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April 26, 2023

New publication about the insecticide permethrin

Our post-doc researcher Anthony Mathiron just published a research article in Aquatic Toxicology about the immediate and delayed effects of the insecticide permethrin on our fish model, the mangrove rivulus. This species is becoming a great model choice for ecotoxicology studies and the roles of epigenetics, showing a naturally very low level of genetic diversity….

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March 29, 2023

Documentary about the mangrove rivulus

LEAP has published on its youtube channel a documentary of 29 minutes about the mangrove rivulus and the field work in Belize and Florida in 2019. It was a part of the PhD thesis of Valentine Chapelle during which we explored the mangroves in these two regions of the world. Please watch the video and…

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March 14, 2023March 29, 2023

LEAP welcomes Dr Sofia Consuegra

Dr Sofia Consuegra from the University of Swansea, Wales, visited our laboratory the 14th of March, as a jury member of Valentine Chapelle’s thesis. Dr Consuegra works on the mangrove killifish, among other species, and investigates epigenetic mechanisms, very close to what we’re doing. It was great opportunity to start future collaborations.

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March 14, 2023March 29, 2023

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…

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