The MIO at the Festival Sciences sur Mer!
The MIO will be presenting three workshops on 7 & 8 June 2025 at the Festival Sciences sur Mer in Villefranche sur Mer, alongside UNOC3 and the One Ocean Science Congress: Valérie [...]
Science bars alongside the UNOC!
Alongside UNOC3 and the One Ocean Congress, the scientific community and associations are mobilising to raise public awareness of the importance of the ocean and the role that everyone can play in protecting it.
ATLASea in Marseille
ATLASea is one of the winners of the Priority Exploratory Research Projects and Facilities (PEPR), which target emerging scientific or technological sectors for which the French government wishes to identify and structure [...].
Discover the ribosome and its "molecular brain" within cells
The CNRS Mission for Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives (MITI) has just published an article on the work of our colleague Youri Timsit and mathematicians Grégoire Sergeant-Perthuis and [...].
South-South exchange: Masuku - Fortaleza
As part of IRD's South-South exchange programmes, Dr Madi Guirema ABAKER is currently spending 2 months at LABOMAR, an institute of the Federal University of Ceara. This [...]
MIO Seminar - Prof. Schmitt-Kopplin - Thursday, June 12, 2025
Prof. Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Director of the independent research unit Analytical Biogeochemistry at Helmholtz Munich and head of the Foodomics Platform at the Technical University of Munich, will give a seminar [...]
Le Monde de Jamy - How can we save the Mediterranean?
A France TV documentary posted online on 19 May 2025: Turquoise waters, multicoloured reefs, dolphins and whales: how much longer will we be able to enjoy the splendours of the [...].
BioSWOT2025 meeting at the MIO: first results from a Mediterranean biophysical expedition across the fine scales of the ocean (1-100 km)
The BioSWOT2025 meeting was an opportunity to present the first confirmed results of the BioSWOT-Med campaign, which took place in 2023 and explored the influence of eddies, fronts and [...].
JEAI EXTREM BIODIV VALOR project
We were delighted to welcome our research partners from the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P - Morocco) to the MIO, as part of the JEAI EXTREM BIODIV VALOR project, from 12 [...].
Étang de Berre: These shower flowers help research into the blue crab
Report Maritima Médias - To study the presence of blue crabs in the Étang de Berre, scientists are using shower flowers, to which the larvae of the blue crab attach themselves.