Training course. Over two intensive weeks in November 2025, the DISPEST2 project brought together researchers, trainers, and students in Stellenbosch to strengthen capacity building and collaboration in fruit fly research.
(01/12/2025)
Highlight. A new approach was successfully applied in our labs to discover the plants that are visited by bees in cucurbit crops of Tanzania. In practice, the pollen carried by one bee (domestic or wild species) is collected and sequenced using a metabarcoding approach to read the DNA in the pollen and detect the plant taxa that were visited by the bee.
Read more about our expertise …
(01/12/2025)
Web. Take a virtual 360° tour in the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics (pre-PCR room) of our Institute of Natural Sciences. We thank Tinaëlle Florizoone, Jean-Luc Boevé and the Haute École Albert Jacquard for this work.
(07/10/2025)
Publication. Unlocking genomic data from the Diptera collections of the Africa Museum.
(12/08/2025)
Workshop on DNA in taxonomy. Researchers from Benin have been trained in Benin (30/06 – 04/07 2025) on DNA analysis and molecular taxonomy in the framework of the project GTI-DNA_shrimp coordinated by the Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. This project is supported by the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) operated in Belgium by CEBioS and financed by the Direction générale Coopération au développement et Aide humanitaire (DGD).
Read more (articles from Beninese daily newspaper): 3 July 2025 and 07 July 2025
(15/07/2025)
DNA data of new species. JEMU supports research in the Belgian Federal Scientific Institutions by sequencing and sharing DNA markers from two newly described gecko species from Thailand and Cambodia. A nice addition to the rich natural history collections of Belgium.
Read more about the new species from Cambodia … and the one from Thailand …
(12/05/2025)
Publication. A paper on the impact of population history, habitat change, and conservation efforts on the globally endangered Taita Thrush is accepted for publication in Ornithological Applications.
(16/12/2024)
Publication. A new molecular tool to monitor parasitoïds that are natural pest controls of the orange wheat blossom midge, a major wheat pest in Belgium. See open-access publication in Scientific Reports.
(20/11/2024)
Conferences. Two oral presentations of Nathalie Suarez Gonzalez, a PhD student from ULB performing ancient DNA analyses with JEMU at RBINS on paleo-genetics and paleo-pathologies: one at the 1st South American Archaeogenetic Workshop, and one at the 35e colloque du Groupement des Anthropologistes de Langue française.
(19/10/2024)
Communication. Biodiversity of the freshwater crabs of Benin (Potamonautidae): a genetic approach. Goussanou et al. 9th International Barcode of Life Conference, 3-6 September 2024, Belém, Brazil.
(13/9/2024)
Publication. New publication out in Science Advances unravelling the genomics underlying a parallel beetle radiation at the Galápagos.
(1/6/2024)
Conference. Nathalie Suarez Gonzalez attended the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA2024), New Orleans, USA.
(17/4/2024)
Highlight. The new biobank of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences: an investment for the future.
(1/4/2024)
Project. MUTER project has kicked off: applying epigenomic tools on museum collections.
(1/11/2023)
Conference. JEMU presented a poster on the annual congress of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2023).
(27/7/2023)