The marine biology practical training has been held in Roscoff, Brittany, at the famous biological station with the motivated 2nd bachelor students. Many interesting observations of the marine life such as the northern gannet, the atlantic puffin, pycnogonids, and much more…
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New job position for a post-doc in ecological epigenetics !
One post-doctoral position is available starting next summer (between July and September 2014) for a period of 2 years. Postdoctoral research will be primarily conducted at the University of Namur (Belgium), Laboratory of Evolutionary and Adaptive Physiology (Prof. F. Silvestre). The goal of the present project is to investigate how epigenetic information allows a single genotype to…
Press article on the mangrove rivulus project
A general press article in french has been published on the mangrove rivulus project. You can find it on this link to the bulletin de FUUP (Forum UNESCO – Université et patrimoine) : http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/75338.htm
Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Meeting 2014
The upcoming Intersociety Meeting in Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology, will be organized by the American Physiological Society with several sponsoring societies (see below) in San Diego, CA, October 5-8, 2014. The website for the meeting is available at: www.the-aps.org/comparative. A call for abstracts will be made shortly, and abstracts will be due July 9, 2014….
A special issue on Epigenetics in the journal “Evolution”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.2014.68.issue-3/issuetoc
Adrien Bauchau Award goes to Anne-Sophie Voisin
Congratulations to our PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin. She has won the award of the best MSc thesis in ecology and organism biology for her work on the impacts of triclosan on zebrafish. This prize is awarded by the Fundation Adrien Bauchau : http://adrienbauchau.be/?page=accueil. She shares this prize with Benjamin Lejeune, another student who made his…
Thesis defense of Sophie Depiereux
Sophie Depiereux (PhD student under the supervision of P Kestemont) will present her thesis this coming Thursday at 4:30 pm. This is a public defense and any intersted people are welcome. It will be held at UNamur at the auditorium L12. The title of the thesis is :”New insights on the male to female transdifferentiation…
Thesis defense of Bui Thi Bich Hang
Hang (PhD student under the supervision of P Kestemont) will present her thesis this coming Friday at 2:30 pm. This is a public defense and any intersted people are welcome. It will be held at UNamur at the auditorium CH12. The title of the thesis is :”Effects of immunostimulants on the immune response and bacterial…
Review article on environmental omics
A review article with the contribution of F Silvestre has been accepted for publication in the new journal : Journal of Integrated Omics. This review is entitled : “Environmental OMICS: Current Status and Future Directions” and is a synthesis of presentations and discussions at The First International Conference on Environmental OMICS (ICEO), held in Guangzhou,…
Heredity with no gene
For french-speaking students and researchers, there is a special issue of the journal “Pour la Science” dedicated to the non-genetic heredity : http://www.pourlascience.fr/ewb_pages/e/espace-numerique-detail.php?art_id=32186&num=81