Published on 19/12/2025
On December 18, 2025, Emmanouil Diakos successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled « Evolution of aquaculture potential during fish domestication: a multi-trait evaluation of breeding programs and sex-specific responses in a model species (Danio rerio) as an asset for aquaculture diversification », carried out under the supervision of Pascal Fontaine and Thomas Lecocq.
The examination committee, composed of Elena Mente (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Marie-Laure Bégout (Ifremer), Valérie Cornet (UNamur), Carole Leguille (University of Lorraine), Md. Shahjahan (Bangladesh Agricultural University), and Marc Vandeputte (INRAE), awarded him the degree of Doctor of the University of Lorraine.
Congratulations to Emmanouil!
Published on 18/12/2025
End-of-year get-together (Secret Santa) organised by the cheerful bunch of PhD students from the MRCA team before heading off tomorrow for a well-deserved break and looking forward to new adventures in 2026.
Happy holidays to all.
Published on 15/12/2025
Salam has defended her thesis on December 10th, "Comprehensive assessment of the effect of fish species on microbial diversity and dynamics in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS)" and was judged by the members of the jury, Thomas Policar from South Bohemia University, Karine Brugirard-Ricaud from the University of Pau, Bertrand Aigle from Lorraine University and Carole Rougeot from the University of Liège, as well as the supervisors Pascal FONTAINE and Frédérique CHANGEY from the LCPME.
Congratulations !
Published on 04/12/2025
From 24 to 18 November, Guido Rychen and Agnès Fournier (MRCA) travelled to the West Indies to meet with various local stakeholders. The mission to the West Indies involved numerous meetings and topics discussed.
Published on 12/11/2025
It was a pleasure for our laboratory to wellcome during last October Céline Nobah Kacou-Wodje, associate professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Abidjan. Céline works in relation with the CIRAD on the exploration of methods optimizing aquaponics in Ivory Coast. She came in Nancy during two weeks to learn about our laboratory activities on aquaponics, and to examine the operation of our experimental facilites (PEA and aquaponics greenhouses) as well as the operation of the Ferme de l'Abbaye.
Published on 07/11/2025
Published in The Conversation, an article co-authored by Gaspard Conseil and Damien Banas highlights the persistence of ‘chemical ghosts’: transformation products derived from pesticides, which are still present in our waters despite having been banned for several decades in some cases.
Drawing on the work of the Animal and Agroecosystems Laboratory (L2A) and in particular the CABARETox project (L2A - OFB - ANSES), the article stresses the need to rethink environmental risk assessment by broadening the focus beyond ‘historical’ pesticides to better take into account these legacy contaminants, which bear witness to the chemical memory of our agricultural landscapes. The Conversation media outlet relies mainly on results from peer-reviewed journals, offering a mainstream outlet for this academic research.
Read the full article on The Conversation: The ghosts of pesticides will haunt our environments for a long time to come.