  | Roncero Ramos, B., Savaglia, V., Durieu, B., Van De Vreken, I., Richel, A., & Wilmotte, A. (2024). Ecophysiological and genomic approaches to cyanobacterial hardening for restoration. Journal of Phycology, 1-18. doi:10.1111/jpy.13436  Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Savaglia, V., Durieu, B., Roncero Ramos, B., Lambrechts, S., Tytgat, B., Van Hellemont, Q., Elster, J., Verleyen, E., Willems, A., Vyverman, W., & Wilmotte, A. (September 2023). Drivers of the terrestrial cyanobacterial community composition in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica [Poster presentation]. ECCO XLI - 2023, Bruxelles, Belgium. |
 | Cornet, L., Durieu, B., Baert, F., D'hooge Elisabeth, Collignon, D., Meunier, L., Lupo, V., Cleenwerck, I., Daniel, H.-M., Rigouts, L., Sirjacobs, D., Declerck, S., Vandamme, P., Wilmotte, A., Baurain, D., & Becker, P. (September 2023). The GEN-ERA toolbox: unified and reproducible workflows for research in microbial genomics [Paper presentation]. ECCO XLI – 2023, Bruxelles, Belgium. |
 | Pessi, I. S., Popin, R. V., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Tytgat, B., Savaglia, V., Roncero-Ramos, B., Hultman, J., Verleyen, E., Vyverman, W., & Wilmotte, A. (July 2023). Novel diversity of polar Cyanobacteria revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics. Microbial Genomics, 9 (7), 001056. doi:10.1099/mgen.0.001056 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Cornet, L., Durieu, B., Baert, F., D'hooge, E., Colignon, D., Meunier, L., Lupo, V., Cleenwerck, I., Daniel, H.-M., Rigouts, L., Sirjacobs, D., Declerck, S., Vandamme, P., Wilmotte, A., Baurain, D., & Becker, P. (28 December 2022). The GEN-ERA toolbox: unified and reproducible workflows for research in microbial genomics. GigaScience, 12. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giad022 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Wilmotte, A., Savaglia, V., Durieu, B., Tytgat, B., Lambrechts, S., Willems, A., Van De Putte, A., Van Hellemont, Q., Van De Vijver, B., Verleyen, E., & Vyverman, W. (01 August 2022). The science-policy link in practice: how to propose an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA)? [Paper presentation]. Virtual SCAR 2022 'Antarctica in a changing world', India. |
 | Savaglia, V., Tytgat Bjorn, Durieu, B., Lambrechts Sam, Willems Anne, Van De Putte Anton, Vanhellemont Quinten, Van De Vyver Bart, Verleyen Elie, Vyverman Wim, & Wilmotte, A. (August 2022). Which factors are shaping the microbial diversity in the inland high-altitude biotopes of the Western Sør Rondane Mountains (Eastern Antarctica, ACBR6)? [Poster presentation]. Visioconference SCAR 2022 "Antarctica in a changing world". |
Van Hassel, W., Durieu, B., Savaglia, V., Masquelier Julien, Wilmotte, A., Rajkovic Andreja, & Andjelkovic, M. (May 2022). Microcystin exposure of the Belgian population: feasibility of unifying fragmented exposure data [Poster presentation]. 12th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC), Toledo, United States. |
 | Van Hassel, W., Andjelkovic, M., Durieu, B., Marroquin, V. A., Huybrechts, B., Masquelier, J., & Wilmotte, A. (16 January 2022). A Summer of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Belgian Waterbodies: Microcystin Quantification and Molecular Characterizations. Toxins, 14 (1), 61. doi:10.3390/toxins14010061 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
  | Van Hassel, W., Andjelkovic, M., Durieu, B., Almanza Marroquin, V., Masquelier, J., Huybrechts, B., & Wilmotte, A. (October 2021). Belgian cyanobacterial blooms during the summer of 2019 [Poster presentation]. International Conference on Harmful Algae. |
 | Beyer, T., Cornélis Mélanie, Durieu, B., & Savaglia, V. (2021). Chercheurs, médiateurs et musées universitaires : une relation à (dé)construire, des pratiques à systématiser. Cahiers de Muséologie, Hors-série n° 1, 107-116. Peer reviewed |
 | Wilmotte, A., Pessi, I. S., Velazquez, D., Durieu, B., & Laughinghouse IV, H. (08 September 2020). Past cyanobacteria biodiversity in herbarium collections: a time travel to a lost world? [Paper presentation]. 11TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE BIOLOGY OF CYANOBACTERIA - Online event, Porto, Portugal. |
 | Ahn, A.-C., Beets, K., Durieu, B., Simons, V., & Wilmotte, A. (September 2020). Conservation and charactersation exploration of extremophilic Cyanobacteria by the BCCM/ULC collection of Cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. 11TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE BIOLOGY OF CYANOBACTERIA - Online event, Porto, Portugal. |
 | Savaglia, V., Lambrechts, S., Durieu, B., Vanhellemont, Q., Tytgat, B., Verleyen, E., Willems, A., Vyverman, W., & Wilmotte, A. (August 2020). Understanding the microbiome diversity through a combination of remote sensing and close-range field observation techniques in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica [Paper presentation]. SCAR 2020 Open Science Conference Online, Hobart, Australia. |
 | Ahn, A.-C., Beets, K., Durieu, B., Simons, V., & Wilmotte, A. (August 2020). Conservation and characterisation of Polar Cyanobacteria by the BCCM/ULC collection [Paper presentation]. SCAR 2020 Open Science Conference Online, Hobart, Australia. |
 | Wilmotte, A., Savaglia, V., Durieu, B., Lambrechts, S., Willems, A., Vanhellemont, Q., Van de putte, A., Van De Vijver, B., Tytgat, B., Verleyen, E., & Vyverman, W. (August 2020). MICROBIAN : Microbial diversity in the Sør Rondane Mountains in a context of climate change [Poster presentation]. SCAR 2020 Open Science Conference Online, Hobart, Australia. |
 | Ahn, A.-C., Cornet, L., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (18 October 2019). Biodiversity of Cyanobacteria and associated microbiome in the BCCM/ULC Culture Collection [Poster presentation]. 2019 Symposium of the Belgian Society for Microbiology, Bruxelles, Belgium. Peer reviewed |
Lara, Y., Demoulin, C., Durieu, B., Wilmotte, A., Jacques, P., & Javaux, E. (11 October 2019). Cyanobacterial biosignatures, fossil record of cyanobacteria, and molecular aspects of P. nigrescens ULC007 [Paper presentation]. Geomicrobiology workshop, Kaiserslautern, Germany. |
Lara, Y., Demoulin, C., Lambion, A., Durieu, B., Wilmotte, A., Jacques, P., & Javaux, E. (05 September 2019). Antarctic cyanobacteria sources of biosignatures [Paper presentation]. 19th EANA Astrobiology Conference, Orléans, France. Peer reviewed |
 | Wilmotte, A., Beets, K., Simons, V., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., & Baurain, D. (27 August 2019). BCCM/ULC : genomic research on Polar cyanobacteria. European Journal of Phycology, 54 (sup1), 31-117. doi:10.1080/09670262.2019.1626627 |
 | Ahn, A.-C., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Simons, V., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (13 June 2019). Cyanobacteria of Polar Regions: Focus of the BCCM/ULC Culture Collection [Poster presentation]. ECCO 2019 XXXVIII Annual Meeting of the European Culture Collections' Organisation, Turin, Italy. |
| Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (18 December 2018). Adaptations to extreme conditions: the strategy of the Antarctic cyanobacterium ULC007 [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the FRS-FNRS Contact Group “Astrobiology: from stars and planets to extreme life”, Liège, Belgium. |
Wilmotte, A., Beets, K., Santoro, M., Simons, V., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., Jacques, P., Cornet, L., & Baurain, D. (18 December 2018). BCCM/ULC: a collection of cyanobacteria linking Poles to Space [Paper presentation]. The FRS-FNRS Contact Group “Astrobiology: from stars and planets to extreme life”, in collaboration with the EOS ET-HOME project, Liège, Belgium. |
Brode-Roger, D., Christiansen, H., De Maeyer, L., Durieu, B., Gan, Y. M., Gossart, A., Heindler, F. M., Hirst, C., Jacques, C., Jossart, Q., Maes, S., Pinseel, E., Pinzone, M., & Savaglia, V. (07 December 2018). What is APECS Belgium? [Poster presentation]. Polar Symposium 2018 "Polar Impact", The Hague, Netherlands. |
| Santoro, M., Beets, K., Simons, V., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Javaux, E., Jacques, P., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (11 October 2018). The BCCM/ULC collection of cyanobacteria in the spotlight at ULiège [Poster presentation]. Journée conjointe du Centre Inter Universitaire de Biologie Marine (CIBIM), de l’Ecole doctorale Biodiversité, Ecologie, Evolution auprès du FNRS et des collèges doctoraux d’Océanologie et de Biologie des organismes et Ecologie, Liège, Belgium. |
| Wilmotte, A., Santoro, M., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Simons, V., Silva-Stenico, E., De Fiore, M., Cornet, L., & Baurain, D. (October 2018). Ex-situ conservation and exploration of polar cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC Collection [Poster presentation]. BSM 2018 Annual Symposium "Microbes in the spotlight", Brussels, Belgium. |
Santoro, M., Beets, K., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Simons, V., & Wilmotte, A. (13 September 2018). BCCM/ULC: a unique Biological Resource Center of (sub)polar cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. XXXVII Annual Meeting of European Culture Collections' Organization - ECCO 2018, Moscou, Russia. |
Durieu, B., Baurain, D., Wilmotte, A., & Lara, Y. (19 June 2018). Cold Adaptation Strategy of the Antarctic Cyanobacterium P. priestleyi ULC007 [Poster presentation]. Polar 2018, Where the Poles come together, Open Science Conference, Davos, Switzerland. |
Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Stelmach Pessi, I., Lambion, A., Verleyen, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (19 June 2018). Biogeography of Cyanobacteria in Antarctic Mats and Implication for Conservation [Paper presentation]. Polar 2018, Where the Poles come together, Open Science Conference, Davos, Switzerland. |
| Wilmotte, A., Beets, K., Simons, V., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Laughinghouse IV, H. (June 2018). Ex-situ Conservation of Polar Cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC Collection [Poster presentation]. POLAR 2018 'Where the Poles come together', Davos, Switzerland. |
 | Santoro, M., Chaerle, P., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Beets, K., Chepurnova, O., Simons, V., Vyverman, W., & Wilmotte, A. (May 2018). Keeping microalgae safe and available [Poster presentation]. Algal Research for Policy-Making and Biotech Symposium, Oban, United Kingdom. |
| Lara, Y., Beets, K., Simons, V., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Santoro, M., Laughinghouse IV, H., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (March 2018). Polar cyanobacteria in the BCCM/ULC collection : diversity and characterization [Poster presentation]. COST Life Origin Final Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy. Peer reviewed |
| Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Pessi, I., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., Javaux, E., & Wilmotte, A. (March 2018). The survival toolkit of the Antarctic cyanobacterium Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007 [Paper presentation]. COST Life Origin Final Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy. Peer reviewed |
 | Pessi, I. S., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Maalouf, P., Verleyen, E., & Wilmotte, A. (2018). Community structure and distribution of benthic cyanobacteria in Antarctic lacustrine microbial mats. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94 (5), 042. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiy042 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Cornet, L., Meunier, L., Van Vlierberghe, M., Léonard, R., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Misztak, A., Sirjacobs, D., Javaux, E., Philippe, H., Wilmotte, A., & Baurain, D. (2018). Consensus assessment of the contamination level of publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. PLoS ONE, 13 (7), 0200323. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200323 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
Durieu, B., Wilmotte, A., & Lara, Y. (10 November 2017). Cold adaptation strategy of the Antarctic cyanobacterium P. priestleyi ULC007 [Poster presentation]. SFMBBM Annual PhD day, Liège, Belgium. |
Lara, Y., Stelmach Pessi, I., Durieu, B., Lepoint, G., Wilmotte, A., & Michel, L. (July 2017). In Search for Marine Antarctic Cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. XIITH SCAR BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM, Leuven, Belgium. |
| Wilmotte, A., Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Obbels, D., Stelmach Pessi, I., Pinseel, E., Sweetlove, M., Tytgat, B., Van De Putte, A., Van De Vijver, B., Verleyen, E., Vyverman, W., & Willems, A. (2017). Diversity and biogeography of microorganisms in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes. In A. Van de Putte (Ed.), Book of abstracts: XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, 10-14 July 2017 (pp. 199). SCAR. |
 | Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Renard, M., Beets, K., Stelmach Pessi, I., Cornet, L., Simons, V., Baurain, D., Javaux, E., Jacques, P., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). The BCCM/ULC collection to conserve the biodiversity and study the secondary metabolites of Antarctic cyanobacteria. In A. Van de Putte (Ed.), Book of abstracts: XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium, 10-14 July 2017 (pp. 244). SCAR. Peer reviewed |
 | Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Cornet, L., Verlaine, O., Rippka, R., Stelmach Pessi, I., Misztak, A., Joris, B., Javaux, E., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Draft genome sequence of the axenic strain Phormidesmis priestleyi ULC007, a cyanobacterium isolated from Lake Bruehwiler (Larsemann Hills, Antarctica). Genome Announcements, 01546-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01546-16 Peer reviewed |
Durieu, B., Stelmach Pessi, I., Lara, Y., C Maalouf, P., Lambion, A., & Wilmotte, A. (2017). Biogeographic patterns and genomic adaptation of benthic cyanobacteria in Antarctic lakes. In XIIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Leuveun, 10-14 July 2017. |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Renard, M., Stelmach Pessi, I., Cornet, L., Simons, V., Baurain, D., Javaux, E., Jacques, P., & Wilmotte, A. (16 November 2016). The BCCM/ULC collection to conserve the biodiversity and study the secondary metabolites of Polar cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. BIOFORUM 2016, Liège, Belgium. |
Becker, P., SZTERNFELD, P., ANDJELKOVIC, M., ANTHONISSEN, R., VERSCHAEVE, L., HENDRICKX, M., Renard, M., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Simons, V., Laughinghouse, H. D., Cornet, L., Baurain, D., & Wilmotte, A. (28 October 2016). The BCCM/ULC collection to conserve the biodiversity and explore the applied potential of Polar cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. Symposium “Microbiome and Host Metabolism", Brussels, Belgium. |
Stelmach Pessi, I., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., & Wilmotte, A. (08 September 2016). Cyanobacterial Diversity In Antarctic Aquatic Microbial Mats [Poster presentation]. Third annual BIBR meeting, Liège, Belgium. |
Wilmotte, A., Renard, M., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Stelmach Pessi, I., Simons, V., Laughinghouse, H. D., Cornet, L., & Baurain, D. (September 2016). The BCCM/ULC collection to conserve and study the biodiversity of Polar cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. 2Oth IAC Cyanophyte/Cyanobacteria Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria. |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Stelmach Pessi, I., Wilmotte, A., Sweetlove, M., Verleyen, E., Obbels, D., Vyverman, W., Tytgat, B., Willems, A., Van De Vyver, B., Van De Putte, A., & Pinseel, E. (August 2016). Diversity and distribution of microorganisms in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes [Paper presentation]. XXXIV SCAR Biennial Meetings and Open Science Conference 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Borderie, F., Stelmach Pessi, I., Crahay, C., Deblander, V., Geelen, N., Iovino, M., Defise, A., Haywood, D. L., & Wilmotte, A. (August 2016). Characterization of Leptolyngbya and Phormidium diversity in Antarctic biotopes [Poster presentation]. 34st Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Biennal Meetings, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
Durieu, B., Lara, Y., Obbels, D., Pinseels, E., Stelmach Pessi, I., Sweetlove, M., Tytgat, B., Van De Putte, A., Van De Vijver, B., Verleyen, E., Vyverman, W., Willems, A., & Wilmotte, A. (29 April 2016). The CCAMBIO project to characterize the biodiversity and distribution of microorganisms in microbial mats of Antarctic lakes [Poster presentation]. Belgian National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics (BNCGG) - Belgian National Committee on Antarctic Research (BNCAR) 2016 Symposium, Brussels, Belgium. |
Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Deblander, V., Defise, A., Laughinghouse, H. D., & Wilmotte, A. (29 April 2016). Elucidating diversity of thin filamentous mat-forming Antarctic cyanobacteria [Poster presentation]. Belgian National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics (BNCGG) - Belgian National Committee on Antarctic Research (BNCAR) 2016 Symposium, Brussels, Belgium. |
Tytgat, B., Willems, A., Sweetlove, M., Pinseel, E., Verleyen, E., Vyverman, W., Stelmach Pessi, I., Lara, Y., Durieu, B., Wilmotte, A., Van de Vijver, B., & Van De Putte, A. (2015). ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC REPORT - Climate change and Antarctic microbial biodiversity (CCAMBIO). (SD/BA/03A, Belgian Science Policy (Belspo)). Bruxelles, Belgium: Belgian Science Policy (Belspo). |
Durieu, B., & Michaux, J. (12 December 2014). Evolutionary history of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in the Palearctic region, with emphasis on the colonization of the Orkney Islands and Iceland [Poster presentation]. Zoology 2014 - The 21st Benelux Congress of Zoology, Liège, Belgium. |
Durieu, B. (2014). Evolutionary history of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in the Palearctic region, with emphasis on the colonization of the Orkney Islands and Iceland [Paper presentation]. Jacques Kets Award for Zoology 2014, Antwerp, Belgium. |