Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Located at the northwestern part of Brittany, the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) is a comprehensive university welcoming around 23 000 students by the sea.
Research at UBO is organized in four research axes: Sea, Social sciences and Humanities, Digital Sciences and Mathematics, Health and agro-material. UBO is also involved on the international level, such as European collaborations. It has been involved in more than 17 H2020 projects over the last 5 years. It is part of the European University SEA-EU. UBO is finally working closely together with the non-academic sector, NGO’s, large companies and local authorities.
1300 researchers
34 research units
Dedicated technical facilities allow researchers to conduct top-level projects in various domains:
- Materials characterization (scanning and transmission electron microscopes, atomic force microscope, confocal microscope, diffraction ray spectrometer, fluorescence and bioluminescence microscopes)
- Performance engineering (network analyzers, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis and rheology)
- Chemistry (nuclear magnetic resonance)
- Biotechnology services (tissue culture, protein chemistry, and computational analysis of biological data)
- Genomic facility (high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing, microarray analysis (Affymetrix) protein analysis, multiple flow cytometry instruments, bioinformatics)
- Animal resources
- High performance computing and body imaging (positron emission tomography)
- Oceanographic spectrometry and data computing for marine science
Meet the fellows
Pavanee Annasawmy, oceanographer, studies the distribution of micronekton
Dr Beatriz Arce Lopez is an analytical chemist-toxicologist working on in vitro toxicological approaches of mycotoxin mixtures
Aude Chesnais, political ecologist, working on traditional ecological knowledge
Fernando Fernandes dos Santos, computer scientist, working on computer fault tolerance
Soizic Garaud, immunologist, working on the identification of predictive biomarkers of immunotherapy side effects
Sophie Hage, sedimentologist, is working on the carbon cycle off the Congo River
Stina Kolodzey, a marine ecologist working on the role of kelp in food webs
Maxime Laurans, chemist, working on the valorisation of nitrogen
Daniel Manzoni de Almeida, working on public health and science education
Margaux Mathieu-Resuge, ecologist, working on the quality of sardine food
Trinetra Mukherjee, microbiologist, working on microbes living in extreme conditions
Morgan Smits, marine biologist, studying the mechanisms of clam immunity
Lorraine Tual, geologist, unravelling how mountains form