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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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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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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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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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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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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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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