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New article published in Environmental Pollution
A new article from Elodie Falisse’s thesis has been published in the journal Environmental Pollution. This study is the first in collaboration with Dr Aniruddha Chatterjee from the University of Ortago, New Zealand, which aimed at identifying the epigenetic effects of an exposure to a common pollutant (the antibacterial agent Triclosan) during the development of…
ISBE conference 2018
Alessandra Carion and Frederic Silvestre attended the conference ISBE 2018 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, from August 11th to 16th. This conference is organized every other year by the International Society for Behavioral Ecology and bring together scientists working on animal behavior in a context of ecology and evolution. Alessandra presented few results obtained recently for her…
Field trip in Provence
Like every year, the multidisciplinary field trip from UNamur was organized in July for 31 undergraduate students from biology, geology, geography, veterinary, mathematics and pharmacy schools. The destination is new every year and we had the pleasure to visit Provence in South of France. Beside classical botanics, geology, ornithology and entomology, the students could explore…
Nothobranchius symposium 2017
For the first time, our lab attended the Nothobranchius symposium at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne (https://indico.age.mpg.de/event/19/). This killifish species is our new killifish model species just arrived in the lab for the PhD thesis of Antoine Wittorski and the master thesis of Jessica Ody. It is a new model of choice to study…
Ecobim conference in Bordeaux
This year, the conference Ecobim has been held at the University of Bordeaux (http://ecobim.ca/colloques/ecobim-2018/). This conference put together specialists in ecotoxicology from the french speaking countries, mainly France and Canada. Since 2017, Belgium is also participating, as well as 6 other countries. Frédéric Silvestre, Julie Hetru and Angèle Markey were present in Bordeaux. Julie gave…
Arrival of the turquoise killifish
Our lab has just welcomed a new killifish species, the turquoise killifish Nothobranchius furzeri. This species lives in freshwater ponds of south east Africa and presents the particularity to be the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan. Antoine Wittorski is starting his PhD on the species from a comparative point of view in order to investigate…
New article published in Ecology and Evolution
A first article on our work on epigenetics in the mangrove rivulus has been published in the journal “Ecology and Evolution”. This article published by Alexandre Fellous depicts the DNA methylation profile of this fish, in adults and during embryogenesis. It also characterizes the main enzymes involved in this process. Altogether, our findings open the…
Anne-Sophie Voisin is PhD !
Our former PhD student Anne-Sophie Voisin has presented her thesis dissertation the 2nd of May. She was the first PhD student to work and to publish on our model fish species, the mangrove rivulus. She combined phenotypic, proteomic and epigenetic approaches to investigate the delayed effects in adults of an early life exposure to the…
Elodie Falisse is graduated
Congratulations to Elodie who has brilliantly defended her PhD dissertation in February 2018. During 2h, she explained and discussed her main results obtained during 6 years of teaching assistantship at UNamur. She has been working on the effects of the bactericide triclosan on the zebrafish. Originally, she combined physiological, biochemical, proteomics, epigenetics and behavioral approaches…