After some administrative hurdles, we are delighted to finally welcome Prajna Bandyopadhyay to Namur as a new PhD student in the LAB! Prajna investigates how environmental stressors affect rest–activity patterns and behavioural flexibility in aquatic organisms. Using the upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea xamachana) as a model species, she explores how artificial light at night and pharmaceutical
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We are very happy to welcome (back) Benjamin Lapiere, who (re)joined the LAB as a Research Technician on 1 October! Benjamin will contribute to the ORION project, which investigates the impacts of environmental pollution on freshwater fish in their natural environment. His work focuses on field campaigns involving the deployment and monitoring of salmon in
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On 22 September, the LAB was happy to welcome a delegation from the Water Research Group (WRG) at North-West University (NWU) in Potchefstroom, South Africa: Prof. Nico Smit, Prof. Victor Wepener, Prof. Wynand Malherbe, Adri Joubert, and Samantha van Aarde. The visit was a great opportunity to exchange ideas and explore ways to deepen our
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We are very happy to welcome Armelle Tomasevszky, who joined the LAB as a new PhD student on 1 September! Armelle investigates how environmental disturbances affect biological rhythms and behaviour in freshwater organisms. Her PhD project focuses on artificial light at night and pharmaceutical pollution, exploring how these stressors influence daily activity patterns in fish
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Congratulations to our PhD student Nicole Goede, who was competitively selected to participate in the 2026 Una Europa Summer School for Doctoral Researchers: One Health for All, held at University College Dublin (15–19 June, Ireland). Over the course of an inspiring week, Nicole joined doctoral researchers from across the Una Europa alliance to explore the
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We are very happy to welcome Laura Ostolaza Perez-Cruz from the University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic) to the LAB team. Laura joins us for a two-month research internship through the Erasmus+ programme. During her stay, she will work together with our PhD student Theresia Kimario on projects involving turquoise killifish and brine shrimp. We
More good news for our future PhD student Prajna Bandyopadhyay! Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) has awarded her a DOCT.IN PhD fellowship. This fellowship will support the CERUNA PhD fellowship that was previously awarded by the University of Namur and provides support for her upcoming doctoral research on sleep and cognition in upside-down jellyfish. 🪼 Congratulations, Prajna,
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Today marked the final day of our three-day Training School on ecotoxicology, organized within the framework of COST Action CA21111 OneHealthdrugs. The course introduced PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early-career scientists to the fundamentals of ecotoxicology through lectures, interactive case studies, and hands-on laboratory sessions. Participants explored how chemicals move through the environment, how
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I am honored to have been part of a team that received the KU Leuven Team Science Award 2026. The award recognizes our collaborative efforts to establish the turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) as a research model and to develop a highly multidisciplinary network around this species, including the creation of a dedicated culturing facility. The
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Our PhD student Nicole Goede presented her work at the 36th Annual Meeting of SETAC Europe in Maastricht. Her poster, “Bugs on drugs: Short-term exposure of fluoxetine and clobazam impacts the activity and foraging behavior of the northern damselfly under different temperature scenarios” showcased research conducted during her research stay at the Swedish University of
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