The African Turquoise Killifish Genome has been published in Cell. The authors reveals genes involved in aging and lifespan. These genes are clustered on the sex chromosome, suggesting that short lifespan might have co-evolved with sex determination.
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Anne-Sophie Voisin at an international course on targeted proteomics
Our PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin attended a high level international course on targeted proteomics in Barcelona. This class was organized by the MacCoss Lab, the Skyline software editor, and EMBO. This will push the lab into a better knowledge of using this extremely precise proteomics approach in fish species. Click here to go to the…
LEAP at the North America SETAC meeting
This year, LEAP was well represented at the North America 36th Annual SETAC meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from November 1st to 5th. SETAC is the world most important scientific society of ecotoxicology and environmental toxicology. Elodie Falisse, Anne-Sophie Voisin and Frederic Silvestre all had an oral presentation in different sessions. We also…
Alexandre Fellous in Brazil at the international conference “Evolution”
From the 26th to 30th of June, the international conference “Evolution” was held in Brasil. For the first time, one of our researchers presented an oral communication. The program of this conference can be found here : [pdf_attachment file=”1″ name=”Evolution program”] Thanks to Alexandre Fellous to make the trip and to present a talk entitled ”…
Main International Conferences in 2015
– SOT (Society of Toxicology) annual meeting 2015 : 22nd – 26th of March 2015 , San Diego, California : http://www.toxicology.org/AI/MEET/am2015/ – Experimental Biology 2015 : 28th of March – 1st of April 2015, Borston, Massachusset : http://experimentalbiology.org/2015/Home.aspx Abstract submission : November 2014 – PRIMO (Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms) International Symposium 2015 : 24th…
SICB meeting at West Palm Beach
Our laboratory will be present at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual meeting 2015. This conference will be held in West Palm Beach, Florida : http://sicb.org/meetings/2015/index.php. On January 4th, Frederic will give a talk on : “Protein expression profiles in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa, exposed to copper during early life stage :…
Anne-Sophie won the award for the best poster at the 21th Benelux Congress of Zoology
We’re proud to congratulate our FNRS PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin and our Master student Melodie Locrel for having won the award for the best PhD poster at the 21th Benelux Congress of Zoology. This conference has been held in Liège, Belgium, the 12-13 December 2014 and was a contest among more than 100 young scientists….
Mémoires 2015 – MSc thesis 2015
Chers étudiants, vous pouvez trouver un descriptif succinct des thèmes de mémoire proposés lors de la séance d’information de ce lundi 29 septembre. Merci de télécharger le pdf sur le lien ci-dessous. Merci de nous contacter directement. Dear prospective students. You can find below the proposals for a MSc thesis in 2015. Thanks to contact…
Photos of the mangrove rivulus
Some pictures of the mangrove rivulus, Kryptolebias marmoratus, taken in lab aquarium, can be found here ! Please, ask authorization to Frédéric Silvestre for using it.
New article published in Aquatic Toxicology
A new article entitled “Effects of cadmium exposure on the gill proteome of Cottus gobio:Modulatory effects of prior thermal acclimation” has been published in Aquatic Toxicology (IF:3.730) by our post-doc researher Jennifer Dorts : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166445X14001593 Aquatic organisms such as fish are, in most cases, exposed to multiple stressors simultaneously or in sequence that are either…