After a long waiting time due to the Covid crisis (postponed since summer 2020), our PhD student Ivan Blanco has finally arrived in Maryland to work with Professor Eric S. Haag during 2 months. He aims to use microinjection techniques to knock-down some genes in the early embryo of the mangrove rivulus. He will gain…
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4 of our master students successfully passed their thesis
We are happy to congratulate Simon Ven Den Broucke, Aurélien Boulez, Thomas Deom et Gil Gallengo for their successful thesis defense. They are on their way to be graduated from UNamur/UCLouvain and become master in organism biology and ecology.
Towards 2 first national parks in Wallonia
Our lab and research institute ILEE is participating to the creation of a national park in south “entre-Sambre-et-Meuse”. This project has been selected for the round of 4 in order to develop the 2 first national parks in Wallonia. https://parc-national-esem.be/
Thèmes de mémoires 2022
Les thèmes de mémoires pour 2022 sont maintenant disponibles. Il y a 5 thèmes reprenant plusieurs sujets possibles chez nos deux poissons modèles, le rivulus des mangroves et le killifish turquoise.
New article in Epigenetics
A new article has been published in the specialised journal “Epigenetics” in collaboration with our partner Anirhudda Chatterjee from the University of Otago. It the last part of the PhD thesis of Anne-Sophie Voisin who aimed to investigate the long-term effects of an early life stage exposure to the endocrine disruptor ethinyl estradiol (EE2) in…
LEAP team building 2019
We had a great afternoon for this team building before Christmas in downtown Namur. With our guest from Alabama, Ryan Earley, we attended the Beery Trip (www.hoptimalt.be) to discover how belgian beers are prepared, and then visited some historical point in Namur before ending at the restaurant Belgo Belge.
Visit of Ryan Earley in Namur
Last week, we were very glad to welcome our collaborator from the University of Alabama, Dr Ryan Earley, for a 4 days visit in Namur. Ryan is the world specialist of the mangrove rivulus and has been on the field in Belize with us to study this fish population. It was first time Ryan visited…
Ivan Blanco is our new PhD student
Congratulations to Ivan Blanco who will work in LEAP for the next four years to achieve a PhD thesis on the mangrove rivulus. Ivan just obtained a grant from the FNRS (FRIA) to work on the mating system of the self-fertilizing fish mangrove rivulus. In this species, hermaphrodites can either self-fertilize or outcross with a…
New research project on the mangrove rivulus
LEAP received a nice Saint-Nicolas present from FNRS with a grant for a research project entitled “The epigenetic origin of behavioral traits variability in a self-fertilizing fish: the mangrove rivulus”. One of the greatest challenges in evolutionary biology is to determine how epigenetic mechanisms contribute to phenotypic variability, on which selection can act. The general…
Sonia Gaaied is our new post-doc
Sonia Gaaied has arrived for a short-term post-doc in LEAP. She’s just obtained her PhD from the Institute of biotechnology of Monastir in Tunisia, in the lab of our collaborator Mohamed Banni. She obtained a grant from WBI (Wallonie Bruxelles International) to work in Namur on the effects of a neurotoxicant on the turquoise killifish…