• 2014 - XI International Meeting of the Mexican Society of Planktology A.C. Aguascalientes, Mexico. May 26-30th. How climate shapes stress response of krill species. Tremblay N &
Abele D. oral presentation.
• 2013 - European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS). Galway, Irland. August 19-23th. Response of krill species to hypoxia and warming: a biogeographic comparison. Tremblay N& Abele D. oral presentation.
• 2012 - 3rd Young Marine Research network meeting. Lübeck, Germany. September 12-14th. Metabolic strategies of euphausiid species exposed to oxygen minimum zones. Tremblay N& Abele D. oral presentation.
• 2011 - Workshop: Antarctic krill in a changing ocean. Texel, Netherlands. April 11-15th. Role of oxidative stress in seasonal and daily vertical migration of three krill species in the Gulf of California; What's next? Tolerance mechanisms and responses of krill species to oxygen minimum zones of the Eastern Pacific compare toEuphausia superba: a species that has never experienced hypoxia.Tremblay N & Abele D. poster.
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I am deeply grateful to PD Dr. Doris Abele for providing me the opportunity to work at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for my PhD, giving me the freedom to work in this subject, and to make it happens! I thank Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hagen for his evaluation of the thesis, as well as Dr. Werner Ekau and Dr. Hauke Flores for their implication in the PhD defence committee. The Prof. Dr. Thomas Brey, Dr. Christoph Held and Dr. Hauke Flores were part of my AWI thesis committee and very important for my progress.
I would like to thank the “Fonds de recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies du Québec”
(Canada) for my doctoral scholarship and the AWI, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (1. PACES 2.2: Integrating evolutionary ecology into coastal and shelf processes) for the funding of the project. I would also like to thank the Euromarine Mobility Fellowship 2012 for the research stay at the “Station Biologique de Roscoff” for the learning of RNA extraction, primers design and reverse transcription qPCR methods under the supervision of Kévin Cascella and Dr. Jean-Yves Toullec. I thank Kévin and Jean-Yves for their time and open collaboration. I would like to thank the AWI graduate school POLMAR for their support to PhD students and the opportunities offered to improve our formation.
I would like to thank all people that supported me during the field and laboratory work in all the different sampling areas. You all treated me like one of yours, it really felt like leaving family when the sampling adventure was over. So first, I would like to thank the crew of the R/V Kay-Kay, R/V BIPXII, R/V Elahka, and R/V James Clark Ross as well as the graduate students, technicians and researchers at the Pelagic and Mesozooplankton Laboratory from the Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica del Pacífico Sur-Oriental de la Universidad de Concepción (Concepción, Chile), the Centro de Ecología Costera de la Universidad de Guadalajara (San Patricio de Melaque, Mexico), the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S. C. (La Paz, Mexico), the Hatfield Marine Science Center of Oregon State University (Newport, USA), and the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK) for recording environmental information, and support in collecting zooplankton samples. Special thanks to Rubén Escribano, Pamela Hidalgo, Ramiro Riquelme-Bugueño, Jocelyn Silva Aburto, Carmen Franco-Gordo, Eva Kozak, Israel Ambriz-Arreola, César Augusto Salinas Zavala, Tracy Shaw, William T. Peterson, Jay
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Peterson, Sophie Fielding, and Geraint A. Tarling. I hope to work again with all of you in future collaborations.
I thank Karim Zanaty, Lara Holst, Imke Lüdeke, and especially Stefanie Meyer for their excellence and technical help in the laboratory of AWI. I also thank Kai-Uwe Ludwichowski from the ecological chemistry group of AWI for his advices for the the high-performance liquid chromatography analysis.
I thank my sometimes big, sometimes small working group at AWI for supporting me, and tell the important helping sentence every time I needed it: “Nelly, it’s normal!”. I am already missing you Valeria, Harald, Georgina! Thanks to Iara and Cyril for their presence and support in the last moments.
I thank my two “krill” colleagues, Thorsten and Kim, for the nice “krill” coffees, “krill”
beers, “krill” Skyping, “krill” worldwide meeting, “krill” advices, and “krill” corrections of the manuscript. Hope we can keep this “krill” friendship and “krill” collaboration! That's the plan, no?
I thank Paula, Valentina, Eva, Christiane, Carmen, and Cyril for letting me squat in your fleet for some days, weeks or sometimes months. I really appreciated your trust and friendship!
Thanks to AWI friends for the nice evenings and talks we had, most of the time around a beer, and to the ones involved with me in the Dokteam: Christiane, Verena, Mirja, Tobi, Robert, Lera, Giulia, Doro, Ella, Carmen.. and many others I might forget! Merci aussi à Kévin, Camille et Rémi pour les bonne soirées à Roscoff. Gracias a la banda hispanohablante de Bremerhaven que me abrieron los brazos como si fuera comadre latina: Georgina, Roi, Iara, Gonzalo, Luciana, Roman, Diana, Magda! I hope to keep contact with everyone and continue these friendship.
Mil besos y gracias a mi Iván. A pesar de la distancia siempre te sentí a mi lado, escuchán-dome, apoyando, amandome. Lo que logré aquí te lo debo en parte por tu constante soporte. Te amo, y ya, vuelvo en casa bonito! Lo hicimos, lo hicimos, lo hicimos!
Pour finir je veux remercier ma famille de leur appuis, écoute et comprehension quant à mes lieux de residences qui ne sont géneralement pas dans un périmètre de distance acceptable pour les visites fréquentes. J'espère de tout coeur que ma carrière me mènera un jour plus près de vous. Je vous aime!