The last frontier to explore, an environment with potentially 1 million species to discover, the least anthropized area to protect, a vast reservoir of biological, energy and mineral resources to meet the growing world demand. The deep sea have long suffered from  a lack of knowledge due to their difficult accessibility, which has perpetuated the distorted image of a calm, quiet and almost abyssal plain, quiet and almost deserted, preserved from anthropic pressures.

If you want to know more about our activities, then follow us and discover the unsuspected riches of the ocean depths!

Under the limelight

Réseau Bactériophages France

France Bacteriophage Network

LM2E joints a new network of collaborators in virology field ! Get more here...

IRP Microbsea

Presentation of the international laboratory Research Project - IRP
Bilateral cooperation between BEEP and the Chinese Key Laboratory in Marine Genetic Resources at the 3rd Institute of Oceanography (TIO) of China

Creation of BIOMEX

Published on 19 march 2024

BIOMEX has been created in January 2024.

Latest news

21Jan2025

Présentation de Logan Mc Teer - Publication REM Meeting 2025

Présentation aux voeux REM 2025

Logan Mc Teer en 3ème année de thèse au laboratoire LMEE de BEEP, a présenté aux voeux REM 2025  ses résultats publiés dans l'article publié dans Mbio 

19Nov2024
02Jan2025

EDEN 2024 Campaign, Dessandier, P.A., campaign chief

Clarion Clipperton zone

On the trail of fauna associated with polymetallic nodules in the abyssal plains of Clarion-Clipperton

Last papers

Article published in Frontiers in microbiology

Article published in Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Article published in Marine Pollution Bulletin

Article published in Ecology and Evolution

Contacts

Find your adequate interlocutor within our lab !

Ifremer

Pierre-Marie Sarradin, Directeur UMR BEEP

Ifremer Centre Bretagne, CS 10070 29280 Plouzané
: 02.98.22.46.72

IUEM

Claire Geslin, Directrice Adjointe UMR BEEP

IUEM, Rue Dumont d'Urville, 29280 Plouzané
: 02.98.49.88.58