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.
Published on 22/08/2025
A beautiful meeting of scientists from Lorraine and Namur universities as an event of IRP program to work on fish polyculture development.
During two days, (15th and 16th of July), seven Belgian colleagues came to help the members of the Diversification in Continental Aquaculture team for a wide collecting campaign of biological samples at the Experimental Platform of Aquaculture. This work is a part of the co-supervised thesis of Marie Laure Tchiedjo, supervised by Marielle Thomas and Thomas Lecocq (Lorraine University) and Patrick Kestemont (Namur University). The goal aims at developing fish polyculture taking into account farming systems sustainability and animal wellfare.
Published on 16/07/2025
A summer school devoted to the chlordecone issue was held in Rennes, on the IRSET premises, from 7 to 9 July 2025, for doctoral and post-doctoral students working on the chlordecone issue...