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…
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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…
Field trip to Florida
In January 2018, a team from our lab visited the Florida mangroves in order to sample the mangrove Rivulus in its natural habitat. Morgane, Victoria and Frederic travelled from as North as Emerson Point (Manatee County) to the Florida Keys. The main goal of this campaign is to assess the epigenetic variability within and among…
Mangrove Rivulus microhabitat
To spot the mangrove Rivulus, it’s important to first identify the microhabitat they live in. For that, a deep observation of the mangrove is needed. This fish mostly lives where the black and red mangroves are present, where there is a little of water (between 25 and 35 ppt), a lot of mud and leaf…
Best poster for Morgane Van Antro
Our former master student Morgane Van Antro won the award for the best poster at the 2017 Benelux Congress of Zoology held at Wageningen (link). After Anne-Sophie Voisin award in 2014, it’s the second time that our laboratory has such a success to this international conference mainly focused on young researchers. The poster presented by…
Master thesis subjects 2018
You can find here the different subjects for prospective master students. Please contact us if you are interested in one of these proposals. Details of the subjects here Powerpoint presentation here Record of the ppt presentation here (10′)
New article published in Aquatic Toxicology
Our PhD student Elodie Falisse has published a research article in Aquatic Toxicology about the effects of the bactericide product Triclosan on zebrafish larvae. She combined multidisciplinary approaches such as physiology, biochemistry and proteomics. Main results suggest that triclosan might disturb the development of zebrafish larvae and induce compensatory mechanisms. The article can be found…
Congratulations to our MSc students
Our MSc students Morgane Van Antro and Toa Avalos Cascante have brightly defended their thesis and have now left Belgium for international internships. Their works investigated how the mangrove rivulus responds to environmental stress during early life stages. Some amazing results will be published during the following months.
Free recordings SETAC conferences
Free recordings of the SETAC conferences, including the last conference in Orlando, are available here : http://setac.sclivelearningcenter.com/index.aspx?PID=9486&SID=215610. Three recordings from our lab are available when typing Falisse or Silvestre.
Two new articles published
LEAP has just published two new scientific articles that are now available online. First one is our first article related to epigenetics in the zebrafish and is the result of Jennifer Dorts work (with the help of Elodie Falisse ane Enora Flamion). We emphasize the effects of environmental stressors during the embryogenesis of this model…