BEEM - Molecular Biology, Evolution and Ecology
Presentation
Since 2012, our team has built up around the means of investigating DNA to study the diversity, evolution and ecology of organisms. Our study models are organisms belonging to the metazoa, viridiplantae, rhodophyta, and communities of micro-organisms from a wide range of phyla, in marine, aquatic or emerged environments. Our research themes are those that can be addressed thanks to the strong conceptual basis of evolutionary biology and the universal methods for studying genomes: systematics, biological evolution, genetics, community ecology and the eco-evolutionary response of organisms to environmental change. Some of our members are more biologists with experimental approaches, others are more analysts and modellers of diversity, but we all share a wonder for the fantastic story of living things, its complexity and its twists and turns.

Research topics
The Team
Collaborations
- University of Alberta (Canada)
- Queensland University (Australia) - Partner ABISS Project "INTERNATIONAL CALL 2024 "MARINE BIOLOGY"-CNRS) (E. Renard (BEEM).
- Vanuatu Fisheries Department (VFD)
- Albion College, Michigan, USA
- University of Alabama, USA
- University of Bolgna (Italia)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- University of Oran (Algeria)
- Molecular Taxonomy Laboratory, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Ogata Lab, Kyoto University Japan
- Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (LCE).
- Centre Europeen de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Geosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE).
- Marine Oceanography Institute (MIO).
- Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM). ANR EvolAj partner "Structure and functions of intercellular epithelial junctions: an evolutionary perspective" (2021-2025, C. Borchiellini (BEEM)).
- Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS). ANR OriSigne partner "Aneural origin of ionotropic glutamate receptor signalling"(2022-2026, E. Renard (BEEM)).
- Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, Alimentation, Environnement et Travail (ANSES).
- Tropical Marine Ecology of the Pacific and Indian Oceans (UMR ENTROPIE).
- French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER)
- Calvi underwater and oceanographic research station (STARESO)
- Stella Mare University of Corsica
- University of Le Mans
- Concarneau Marine Station
- University of Montpellier (MARBEC)
- Banyuls-sur-Mer Oceanological Observatory (LECOB)
- Institut de la mer de Villefranche
- French Bioinformatics Institute
- DASS (Department of Health and Social Affairs), Nouméa, New Caledonia
- Loyalty Islands Province, New Caledonia
- SSPH (Service de la Santé Publique et des Handicapés - Department of Public Health and the Disabled) of the city of Marseille