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 [...].
Collective scientific appraisal Mangroves Ecuador

On 16 July 2025, the MIO received a delegation of Ecuadorian scientists from the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) as part of a collective scientific assessment of mangroves.
From the Mekong to the ocean: Gathering of young people from LabelFrancÉducation schools in Quy Nhon

An international conference was held in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, from 29 June to 1 July 2025, on the theme From the Mekong to the Ocean: Gathering of the Youth of the Mekong [...].
Congratulations to Paul Estoup (MIO MEB), who defended his thesis on Tuesday 15 July 2025.

On the subject: Structure, diversity and interactions of the microbiota associated with the culture of Ulva lacinulata: towards a multiregnum understanding of the ulva holobiont. Summary Ulvae are macroalgae [...].

