Anthony Mathiron, our former post-doc researcher, published his last data collected at LEAP in the Belgian Journal of Zoology, a completely free access journal managed by the Royal Belgian Zoological Society. This article is entitled : ” Water-borne cortisol levels show individuality and predict bold/shy behaviors in the self-fertilizing fish Kryptolebias marmoratus”. It is the…
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Benelux Congress of Zoology 2024
LEAP and the URBE were massively represented at the Benelux Congress of Zoology (14 URBE members – a record) organized in Mons by the Royal Belgian Zoological Society. These two days gave the opportunity to young researchers to present their first results or even their thesis project during a talk or a poster session. All…
Frédéric’s mission to Otago University
Frédéric Silvestre recently spent two weeks at the University of Otago in Dunedin, located in the southeastern region of New Zealand. This visit provided an excellent opportunity to strengthen the longstanding collaboration, initiated in 2014, with Dr. Aniruddha Chatterjee, a renowned expert in cancer epigenetics and professor in the Department of Pathology. During his stay,…
Frédéric Silvestre is in New Zealand !
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…
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 !