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 :…
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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…
Marine Biology training in Roscoff
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…
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