We’re proud to welcome Valentine Chapelle in our lab for the next 4 years. After a great MSc thesis on the mangrove rivulus heritability of personalities, Valentine successfully got a FRIA grant from FNRS. She will continue her work started during her master thesis and will evaluate the origin of epigenetic variability in natural populations…
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Eco-neurotoxicity review
We’re happy to have published a review about the assessment of neurotoxicity of chemicals on wild species. This review has been published in Environmental Sciences Europe and put together 38 well-recognized scientists. It emphasizes the necessity to assess for neurotoxicity the thousands of chemicals that enter the natural environment due to human activities. Potential neurotoxicity…
New article about epigenetics in the mangrove rivulus
Our former post-doc researcher Alexandre Fellous has published the first data on histone methyltransferase (Kmt) and demethylase (Kdm) enzymes in our killifish model, the mangrove rivulus. This article has been published in the journal “Gene” and is a starting point to deeper analyze histone modifications during embryogenesis and the implication of epigenetic mechanisms in adaptation…
New article published on the effects of BMAA on the mangrove rivulus
Our two master students, Julie Hetru and Angèle Markay, published preliminary data during their master thesis under the supervision of Alessandra Carion. It is our first article related to behavioral effects of pollutant exposure (the natural neurotoxin BMAA -ß-N-methylamino-L-alanine) during fish development. It successfully used the mangrove rivulus as an ecotoxicological model to assess the…
Master thesis (mémoires) proposed in 2019
The research subjects proposed at LEAP to master students can be found on this page. For prospective students, thank you to contact Frédéric Silvestre to have more details about the proposals. Sujets de mémoires 2018-2019 LEAP
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…