{"id":28530,"date":"2025-11-12T11:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/?p=28530"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:34:51","slug":"julie-meilland-receives-the-halan-higgins-award-for-her-work-on-planktonic-foraminifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/julie-meilland-recoit-lalan-higgins-award-pour-ses-travaux-sur-les-foraminiferes-planctoniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Meilland receives the Alan Higgins Award for her work on planktonic foraminifera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"28530\" class=\"elementor elementor-28530\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fdcc27e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fdcc27e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fee3135\" data-id=\"fee3135\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-d7cb686 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d7cb686\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-12c59b2\" data-id=\"12c59b2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-148d07f elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"148d07f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-28531\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00510-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-bf21274\" data-id=\"bf21274\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f15c27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0f15c27\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/cerege\/julie-meilland\/\">Julie Meilland<\/a>, a researcher specialising in the ecology of planktonic foraminifera, <span class=\"s2\">was awarded the Alan Higgins Award in November 2025<\/span>, The prize is awarded each year to a young scientist for his or her contributions to applied and industrial micropalaeontology.<\/b><\/p><div><p class=\"p1\">Its work has led to <span class=\"s2\">maintaining planktonic foraminifera in continuous culture over several generations<\/span>, and to demonstrate for the first time the importance of the <span class=\"s2\">asexual reproduction<\/span> in these marine micro-organisms. This advance opens up new prospects for calibrating geochemical proxies and for cellular and molecular studies that were previously impossible.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c8a560 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c8a560\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At CEREGE, Julie is currently developing a continuous culture facility based on these discoveries (Meilland et al., 2023 &amp; 2024). She is studying the distribution and population dynamics of planktonic foraminifera in order to gain a better understanding of their habitat and their role in the biological carbon cycle.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this context, the laboratory recently welcomed a PhD student from the University of Southampton, Julian Fuchs, and plans to welcome other visitors from European institutes from next spring.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3de1d0 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"e3de1d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bb1657 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4bb1657\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Rewarded works include<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jeu.13022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Continuous reproduction of planktonic foraminifera in laboratory culture<\/em><\/a>, on multi-generational clonal reproduction in cultivation.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/plankt\/article\/45\/1\/15\/6887243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rare but persistent asexual reproduction explains the success of planktonic foraminifera in polar oceans<\/em><\/a>, on the role of asexual reproduction in the success of polar species.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Meilland, chercheuse sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e dans l\u2019\u00e9cologie des foraminif\u00e8res planctoniques, s\u2019est vue d\u00e9cerner en novembre 2025 l\u2019Alan Higgins Award, qui distingue chaque ann\u00e9e un\u00b7e jeune scientifique pour ses contributions en micropal\u00e9ontologie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":817,"featured_media":28531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 06:39:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28541,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28530\/revisions\/28541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cerege.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}