Published on 04/11/2025
The Sargasso Sea, located in the North Atlantic, is a sea of seaweed that stretches over 3,000 kilometres long and 1,000 kilometres wide.
Here is a link to a report by Frédéric Courant broadcast on L'Esprit Sorcier TV. It features L2A partners in the West Indies as well as Yves Le Roux, an L2A researcher working on methanisation and Sargassum.
Published on 20/10/2025
A scientific program has been specifically built by members of the Animal and Agroecosystems Laboratory (Marielle Thomas, Sandra Kuntz and Dominique Chardard) and the FabLab Les MacGyver (Clémence Fontaine ; https://fablablesmacgyver.jbthiery.asso.fr/) to host at the village of sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies children with disabilities from the Institut Médico Educatif Joli Bois (IME) of the Association Jean-Baptiste Thiéry (https://jbthiery.asso.fr/).
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Published on 16/10/2025
Noémie Mailfert and Stefan Jurjanz accepted the invitation from the Serbian organising team to participate in the annual conference of the International Association for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollution (IABEP), which took place from 13 to 15 October in Belgrade, Serbia. The sessions focused on biomonitoring using mosses and lichens, mainly air pollution, another on monitoring microplastic pollution, and how to monitor PFAS.
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Published on 09/10/2025
The University of Lorraine is rallying throughout Pink October to raise awareness about breast cancer prevention. To illustrate this initiative, the university launched a photo challenge for university staff throughout October. The MRCA team enthusiastically participated in this initiative. The photos will be published in staff newsletters throughout October.
Published on 06/10/2025
Our director unit Pascal Fontaine went last month to Vodnany in Czech republic for an invited lecture. Guest of the research center of aquaculture and biodiversity of hydrocenoses, Pascal gave a lecture on the effects of the biodiversity increase in RAS on microbial communities.
Published on 25/09/2025
In the context of an AQUAEXCEL 3.0 TransNational Access program, we had the pleasure to welcome Mark Wossidlo from Wien Medical University for a few days stay. As a specialist of epigenetic reprogramming in gamets, Mark came to Lorraine for a collaboration with the DAC team on the study of genome methylation in perch oocytes. During his stay, he gave a seminar on « Epigenetic reprogramming and the risks of epimutations » and the team took advantage of his expertise in the sampling and handling of oocytes. The austrian team will perform the molecular analyses of the oocytes collected from perch that have undergone different wintering temperatures within the PEA.