Eli Thoré - LABORATORY OF ADAPTIVE BIODYNAMICS

Nichole and Lomarie awarded for their talks at SASAqS

Very big congratulations to our PhD-students Nichole and Lomarie, who won the first and second prize, respectively, for best student oral presentations at the 2025 SASAqS conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Nichole presented her work on parasite profiles in Nothobranchius killifish, while Lomarie talked about predator-driven community structure of temporary pond ecosystems. Fantastic achievements!

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Featured in the SEB Spring 2025 magazine

Outreach & media / Eli Thoré

I am very happy and grateful that our Science article on drugged salmon migration has been featured in the Society for Experimental Biology Spring 2025 Magazine! You can read and share the magazine online here. Many thanks to the Society!

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Nicole was at the 2025 Nothobranchius symposium

Team highlights / Eli Thoré

Our PhD-student Nicole Goede delivered her first-ever oral presentation on an international conference. She talked about the challenges of being an embryo in warming and polluted waters at the 2025 Nothobranchius Symposium in Jena, Germany. Splendid work, Nicole!

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Support from the Fonds Adrien Bauchau

News & announcements / Eli Thoré

I am immensely grateful for receiving the Young Academics Support Grant from the Fonds Adrien Bauchau, to support the launch of the LAB’s research in the Biology Department at UNamur. You can read more about it here. A huge thanks to the Fonds Adrien Bauchau!

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Our research is featured in Knack magazine

Outreach & media / Eli Thoré

Our salmon migration study was featured in Knack, a Belgian-Dutch-language weekly news magazine. Super cool! The article was written by Dirk Draulans.

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Seminar at the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

Events & conferences / Eli Thoré

I had a really great time visiting Dr. Pieter Lemmens and his colleagues at the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) in Linkebeek, Belgium. We talked about the challenges of chemical pollution and nature conservation, and their really impressive breeding programs of native fish and amphibians!

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Secretary-elect of the Royal Belgian Zoological Society

News & announcements / Eli Thoré

I am happy to share that I was elected secretary of the Royal Belgian Zoological Society! I will be following up Gilles Lepoint from the University of Liège (Belgium), who has served the RBZS wonderfully in this role for many years – big shoes to fill… The newly elected president Steven Van Belleghem from KU

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Hiring a postdoctoral researcher

Opportunities / Eli Thoré

The LAB is hiring a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Interreg ORION project, which uses a multidisciplinary, cross-border approach to diagnose and predict the quality of aquatic environments in the Meuse River basin. The postdoctoral researcher will be responsible for Work Package 4 of the project, assessing physiological responses – in the lab and

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Nicole is visiting Sweden

Team highlights / Eli Thoré

Our PhD-student Nicole Goede is visiting the labs of Tomas Brodin and Michael Bertram at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. She will be working with Daniel Cerveny and other friends to expand her horizons, specifically by looking into damselfly larvae and how they behave when the world around them changes. Super exciting

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Support from ARES-CCD

News & announcements / Eli Thoré

Wonderful news! Yusuph Kafula from Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology in Tanzania was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by ARES-CCD (Académie de Recherche et d’Enseignement Supérieur – Commission du Développement Durable). We’re very grateful for this support and can’t wait to welcome Yusuph into our team!

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