Our research is featured in Knack magazine
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)
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
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
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
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
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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Our salmon study is migrating around the world
It’s fantastic to see how much our salmon migration study has been picked up by major news outlets all around the world! Especially great to see it covered on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – watch it here! (coverage starts at 02:45)
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Seminar at UC-Louvain
Today, I visited Prof. Melissa Page of UC-Louvain in Belgium, and talked about fish behaviour in medicated habitats at the Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology. I had a lovely time connecting with people over there!
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Welcome Amélie Pujol
We our very happy to welcome Amélie Pujol, coming from Université de Toulon in France, for an internship during the coming months! She will be working with our PhD-student Noémie Buratto, looking into the growth of the endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of the upside-down jellyfish. We’re wishing her a very rewarding time ahead!
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New paper in Science
Our latest research is out in Science Magazine! We show how pharmaceutical pollution can disrupt the river-to-sea migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). It highlights just how far-reaching the effects of human medicines can be on aquatic life. You can read the article here or read about it on the Newsroom of UNamur!
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