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I have graduated at the Rennes 1 university in France in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Health Science, and obtained a PhD at the INRA department Fish Physiology in Rennes in 1992. During my post doc with Dr John Crowe at UC Davis (California), I explored the behavior of sperm plasma membrane during freeze-thawing. I have then been hired at INRA to work on sperm cryopreservation in fish where I aimed to understand how the cellular damages induced by cryopreservation were affecting sperm ability to fertilize the eggs and to produce healthy offspring. I am presently deputy director of the Fish Physiology and Genomics department of INRAE (former INRA), and head of the research group MaRĂ© (fish spermatogenesis, germ cell cryopreservation and fish regeneration from cryopreserved material). My most recent research is devoted to explore how the reproductive biotechnologies can affect the epigenetic profile of fish cells (sperm and somatic cells), and the consequences on embryo development. This includes the epigenetic reprogramming of somatic cells used for reconstruction by nuclear transfer, and the epigenetic alteration induced by cryopreservation. Most of the research projects I am involved in deal with genetic resources cryobanking and control of alterations that may affect offspring development.

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Employment (1)

INRAE: Rennes, Bretagne, FR

1992-08-01 to present | Research Director (Fish Physiology and Genomics)
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Catherine LABBE

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Rennes 1: Rennes, FR

2003 to present | Habilitation for PhD supervision (HDR)
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Catherine LABBE

University of Rennes 1: Rennes, FR

1992 to present | PhD
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Catherine LABBE

Funding (2)

AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in European fish research towards 2020

2015-10 to 2020-09 | Grant
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (Brussels, FR)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: 652831
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Catherine LABBE

CRB Anim

2013 to 2022 | Grant
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Paris, FR)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: ANR11-INBS-0003
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Catherine LABBE

Works (1)

Cryopreservation of Pacific oyster ( Crassostrea gigas ) larvae: Revisiting the practical limitations and scaling up the procedure for application to hatchery

Aquaculture
2018-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0044-8486
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Catherine LABBE

Peer review (4 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Fish physiology and biochemistry. (4)