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Marine Biology (BIOMAR)

Faculty of Sciences | Biology of Organisms

(Code: ULB119)

► Basic researches in echinoderm biology (marine invertebrates).

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - FRIA - Autres U.E. - Financement de base institutionnel - Fonds propres (patrimoine).

Investigations on the Echinodermata with a special interest for their reproduction, nutrition, and defense mechanisms (defensive organs and immune syst ...

► Biology of echinoderm-based symbioses.

Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Autres ministères fédéraux - Fonds propres (patrimoine).

Characterization of long-last symbiotic interactions (mutualism, commensalism, parasitis in echinoderms, with a special interest in the ecological and  ...

► Biomineralization:structural, functional and environmental aspects of skeletogenesis.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - FRIA - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.).

Echinoderms build a mineralized endoskeleton which maintains their global shape, offers protection and is involved in food gathering (Aristotles lanter ...

► Bioecology of echinoderm populations in littoral marine ecosystems.

FRIA - PAI - Autres U.E..

Echinoderms often dominate the ecosystem in which they live whatever they are predator, browser, or detritivorous. The research aims to determine the b ...

► Marine microbial ecology : impact of metallic and organic contaminants on microbial communities in marine sediments (microbial, molecular, biochemical and mineralogical analyses, in pristine and polluted environments).

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

Despite their importance for environmental and human health risks (secondary pollution processes), the interactions between Benthic Microbial Communiti ...

► Effects on global change on benthic invertebrates.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - FRIA - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Autres U.E..

The increase of athmospheric CO2 concentration induce both a warning and a acidification of oceans and is linked with a higher occurrence of strong wav ...

► Biodiversity (zoogeography, systematics and bioecology) of echinoderms (echinoids and asteroids).

Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française - Financement de base institutionnel.

The project encloses the realization of the inventory of the echinoid and asteroid fauna from indopacific, atlantic, subantarctic and antarctic waters; ...

► Sea-cucumber cultivation.

FRIA - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française - Fonds propres (patrimoine).

The objective of the research is to succeed in producing at a pilote scale  edible sea-cucumbers having a commercial size (studied species : Holothuria ...