The Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology
IMBE's research is structured around 5 transversal thematic axis and 8 research teams
IMBE organizes its operational facilities around 5 technical departments
Training is, of course, the courses offered at the University (L, M, D) but also training through research (internships).
The dissemination of our scientific results is at the heart of our mission: it enables us to share and make research advances accessible to a wider audience. In addition to publications in specialist journals, the IMBE deploys a wide range of resources to popularise knowledge and make it understandable and attractive to a wide range of audiences. Through concrete actions and innovative tools, we are committed to bringing science closer to everyone, in order to establish an ongoing dialogue between science, research and the general public, especially young people.
After a PhD in Neuroscience at the Université de la Méditerranée in Marseille on the neurobiology of serotonergic systems and the thyroid axis, I turned to the neurobiology of marine and freshwater crustaceans (ATER Université de Provence). Recruited as a Senior Lecturer, I took part in the development of biomarkers for environmental diagnosis and tools for assessing the effects of natural or man-made disturbances on freshwater invertebrates. At IMBE, I am developing multi-scale approaches (genotoxicity, biochemical and morphological damage, metabolomics, etc.) in an invertebrate model, the freshwater hydra, to identify biological responses to pollutants (pesticides, PAHs, trace metals, etc.) or emerging contaminants (drugs, endocrine disruptors, PFAS, etc.) and to improve our knowledge of the environmental effects of mixtures at low concentrations.
ANR LICOCO 2027 Toxic effects of mixtures containing chlordecone. Analysis of the scientific discourse surrounding the pesticide
EDIFIERS ADEME 2027 Toxicological characterisation of organic species emitted by fumes from road materials incorporating asphalt aggregates
MATISSE AMIDEX 2026 Assessment of the toxic effect of mixtures containing PFAS
PRESERVE 2025 Assessment of the effects of mixtures of pollutants in wastewater and rivers in the Aix-Marseille Provence Metropolitan Area
IMBE – UMR CNRS 7263 / IRD 237 / Aix Marseille Université / Avignon Université.
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F-13 397 Marseille, cedex 20 – France
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