From June 16 to 28, 2025, the tour of France’s marine stations continued in Marseille, where the Endoume Marine Station hosted the ATLASea teams for a sampling mission in the Mediterranean. Endoume Marine Station on the left, view from the Station on the right © ATLASea A Large-Scale Scientific Mobilization Around 100 participants took part […]
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The first call for proposals of the ATLASea program has just been published on the ANR website! Call Objective: The aim of this call is to fund projects that leverage the genetic information of marine organisms to identify and study biosynthetic pathways for molecules of interest in various sectors such as agronomy and medicine. Key
We are pleased to announce the mini-symposium “Genomics of Biodiversity” which will take place on the afternoon of Thursday, July 10th, during JOBIM 2025 in Bordeaux. The advent of large-scale sequencing initiatives, such as those coordinated by the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), is transforming the field of comparative genomics. With thousands of high-quality reference genomes
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From September 27 to November 13, 2024, ATLASea joined the « La Planète Revisitée » exploration campaign led by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) to collect new specimens on the southern islands of Guadeloupe: Marie-Galante, Les Saintes (Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas) and La Désirade. La Planète Revisitée is an international project initiated in Vanuatu in 2006 by
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From September 16 to October 18, 2024, members of ATLASea joined Ifremer’s Channel Ground Fish Survey (CGFS) mission to collect new marine specimens in the English Channel. On Monday September 16, in the port of Brest, an ATLASea team boarded the Ifremer ship “Thalassa” to take part in the Channel Ground Fish Survey campaign. Since
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New marine specimens were collected along the shore of Dinard, a town in Brittany on the « Côte d’Émeraude », during the first sampling mission that was executed entirely by the ATLASea program. Beach of the « Pointe de la Roche Pelée » and Marine Station of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Dinard. © ATLASea From June 24 to
As part of the KANAMECO oceanographic campaign led by the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), ATLASea had the opportunity to collect new samples of marine species during the month of March in the large southern lagoon off Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia. From March 11 to 31, a number of ATLASea members, including Janaina
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Thanks to its expertise in collecting, taxonomy and conservation, the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) is coordinating the field component of this DIVE-Sea program. The aim is to coordinate the collection of marine organisms for genomic sequencing. To mark the launch of the targeted DIVE-Sea project, a press conference was organized on Friday April 5,
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Between September 26th and October 6th 2023, a group of ATLASea researchers participated in a sampling expedition in Leucate, near Narbonne on the western side of the French Mediterranean coast. The expedition was organized by the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle. After collecting the samples, the boat crews and divers placed them in cold water and
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