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

BIOMEX has been created in January 2024.

Latest news

16Dec2024

HDR defense of Mr Loïs Maignien, Monday 16/12/24 2 pm PNBI Plouzané

PNBI Technopôle Plouzané
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

18Dec2024

Cas Cornet thesis defence

Amphi A IUEM

Phylogenetic and functional diversity of uncultivated microbial communities involved in the methane cycle

Last papers

(Bio)degradation of biopolymer and biocomposite in deep-sea, Gayet N., Sarrazin, J., Fuchs, S.

Published on 24 november

Article published in Marine Pollution Bulletin

Symbiont acquisition strategies in post-settlement stages, Gueganton M. et al

Published on 14 april

Article published in Ecology and Evolution

There and there again: Hydrothermal vent communities at Mokuyo Seamount, Methou P.

Published on 13 august

Article published in Ecological Research

Investigating the anti-bioadhesion properties of short, medium chain length...Simon Colin C., (2024)

Published on 1 february

Article published in Biofouling

Contacts

BEEP's Directory

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