Smile project
Our colleagues Coraline Mattei (MCF AMU), Laura Morel (doctoral student), Véronique Lenoble (MCF Université de Toulon), Romain Bordenave (doctoral student) & Manon Lagarde (CDD on project) have started a new series of [...]...
Success for the Pression Hyperbar science bar! The blue crab: a tasty invader
The Science Bar on the blue crab, held on 1 October 2025, was a great success, with contributions from Guillaume Marchessaux, IRD Research Officer at the MIO, and Marina Chiappi, Doctoral [...].
Success for the Print Me a Fish workshop!
The Gyotaku workshop in the Vieux Port on 13 September was a great success! Gyotaku consists of using fish as ink pads to write your own designs.
MIO Seminar - Marina Chiappi - 26 September 2025
Marina Chiappi, a doctoral student at the University of Bologna and associate researcher at the National Research Council's Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology, will be giving a seminar on [...].
Binomial, the poet and the scientist
Bînome invites you to attend the performance of "Martin est un poisson" (Martin is a fish), a play written by Thomas Flahaut following his meeting with Daniela Banaru, Maitresse de [...].
Nicolas Garcia-Seyda: feeding coral reefs to save them
IRD Le Mag has just published an article on our colleague Nicolas Garcia-Seyda's work on coral nutrition. The project will be presented at the Innovation Awards. [...]
Lumexplore 2025
The Festival du film d'exploration science et environnement 2025 will be held in La Ciotat from 9 to 14 September 2025, where our colleague Stéphanie Jacquet will be organising a day entitled La Méditerranée comme [...].
Congratulations to James Bradley (CNRS - MIO MEB) who defended his HDR on Monday 1 September 2025.
Topic: Biosphere-geosphere interactions and microbial life in extreme environments. AbstractMicroorganisms occupy virtually all available environmental niches including those previously thought of as uninhabitable. My research aims to understand [...]
The Mediterranean, future tropical sea
An article entitled La Méditerranée, future mer tropicale (The Mediterranean, future tropical sea) was published in the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°222 dated July to September 2025.Semi-enclosed and shallow, the Mediterranean [...].
Provence off Marseille aboard the Antedon II
Article dated 26 July 2025. La Provence followed our scientists, Delphine Thibault, Sandrine Ruitton, & Marion Delettre, and Dorian Guillemain off the coast of Marseilles, to talk to those [...].