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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Wonderful news! Theresia Kimario was awarded a Faculty for the Future PhD fellowhip by the Schlumberger Foundation! We’re extremely grateful for this support and are very happy to welcome Theresia into our team!
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The LAB is represented at the Biologists@100 conference in Liverpool (United Kingdom), organised by The Company of Biologists., including a fantastic satellite meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology. Highly recommended! Big thanks to COST Action OneHealthdrugs for their generous support to attend this conference. You can read more about it here!
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Fantastic work by Noémie Buratto, who presented her work on upside-down jellyfish during the Women and Girls in Science conference in Namur (Belgium). She was awarded the jury award for best poster by the Fonds Adrien Bauchau. Big congratulations to Noémie!
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The work of many hands, now finally published! Read all about membership fees and preprints in ecology & evolution in our two latest papers! Lagisz, M. et al. 2025. Priced out of belonging? Insufficient concessions on membership fees across international societies in ecology and evolution. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 292, 20241430. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1430 Noble, D.W.A. et
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Our team is very happy to welcome Manon Verneuil, coming from Le Mans University in France, for an internship during the coming months. She will focus on the behavioural responses of small freshwater crustaceans, like Dapnia magna, to environmental pollution. We’re wishing Manon a fruitful time ahead!
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Our team is attending the Benelux Zoology Congress (Zoology 2024) in Mons, Belgium! Our PhD-students Noémie Buratto, Nicole Goede, and Nichole Donough are showing their research with a poster – go check it out, they’re happy to chat! Great conference to connect with fellow zoologists from across the region, an initiative from the Royal Belgian
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We had the pleasure of attending the kickoff meeting for the ORION project, an exciting Interreg initiative that brings together universities and stakeholders across Flanders, Wallonia, and France to tackle cross-border water management challenges. The project focuses on characterising microbiological and ecotoxicological pressures in transboundary aquatic ecosystems, particularly in the Meuse River, to improve resilience and
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The Royal Belgian Zoological Society generously supports our PhD-student Noémie Buratto’s upcoming fieldwork in Florida, where she will research the upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea sp.), including how it behaves and responds to microplastic pollution. Major thanks to the Society, and big congratulations to Noémie!
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