The Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Research Unit (URBE) operates as a collaborative ecosystem, bringing together skills to advance research on organisms and their dynamic interactions with the environment. Its vocation is to study aquatic organisms and their interactions with the environment. It combines comparative biology (several species studied) and integrative biology (several levels of biological integration).

Research teams focus on 4 main areas, from the study of genomes to ecosystems, organisms and populations. Cutting-edge laboratory techniques are combined with field studies in various aquatic ecosystems. URBE is closely involved in student training, notably via the Master's degree in Organismal Biology and Ecology co-organized with UCL.

Research laboratories

LEEE - Ecosystems Environmental Ecology Laboratory

Understanding ecological change through environmental change by studying the dynamics and composition of communities through their characteristics and environmental changes.

LEAG - Laboratory of Adaptive Evolution and Genomics

The genomic basis of adaptive variation, studied by comparing genetic and physiological variation between populations and species.

LEAP - Laboratory of Evolutionary and Adaptive Physiology

The study of the impacts of environmental changes on aquatic organisms at different levels from the perspective of integrative physiology.

LAB - Adaptive Biodynamics Laboratory

An integrative approach to understanding how animals respond to environmental changes, particularly those induced by human activity, in space and time.