Conferences

Les Mercredis d'Endoume Conference - Wednesday 25 March 2026 - 19h00-20h30. Guest speaker: Mireille Harmelin-Vivien, Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie MIO, Aix-Marseille University. When it comes to love, fish have tried everything... or almost everything! Sex changes, paired or group reproduction, attentive or unworthy parents, surrogate fathers and other solutions have all [...]

Date: 28 March 2026. Speaker: Guillaume Marchessaux, marine ecologist, IRD MIO research fellow The invasion of the American blue crab Callinectes sapidus represents one of the worst threats to coastal ecosystems in the Mediterranean. The American blue crab, native to the American Atlantic coast, is a highly voracious and adaptable invasive species. It threatens the [...]

Conference-debate - Thursday 9 April 2026 - Auditorium Usine Electrique - 7pm - Allauch. Speaker: Laurie Casalot, research fellow at the Institut de recherche pour le développement, lnstitut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie in Marseille. On Earth and in the oceans, many living organisms produce their own light to communicate, defend themselves or attract [...].