Go to main content

Maud Alix

20220421 085705
Researcher
Telephone: 97090489
Department: Reproduksjon og utviklingsbiologi

Subjectarea

Reproductive physiology and developmental biology in teleost - interest in early life stages, egg quality, embryonic deformity, fisheries and aquaculture.

Current research at the IMR:

  • Scaling climate effects from individual physiology to population responses (ScaleClim)
  • Research focus on the effect of temperature on Atlantic cod physiology, spawning performances and developmental success
  • Modningsfri torsk i merd (MOTOR)

Curriculum Vitae

PhD in Agronomy, URAFPA, University of Lorraine, France, 2016

MSc in Integrative biology and physiology, University Paris VI - Pierre and Marie Curie, France, 2012

BSc in Cellular biology and physiology, University of Strasbourg, France, 2010

 

Positions:

Current: Researcher - Reproduction and Development biology Research Team, Institute of Marine Research, Austevoll Research Station, Storebø, Norway.

2018 - 2022: Postdoc ResearcherReproduction and Development biology Research Team, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway - Impact of climate change on Atlantic cod reproductive physiology and success.

2017 - 2018: Temporary lecturer and research assistantMarine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation Research Unit (UMR MARBEC), University of Montpellier, France - The digestive system in P. orbicularis, species of interest for Polynesian aquaculture: ontogenesis, immunity and absorption. 

2017: Consultant and expert mission - ASIALOR company, Perch and Pikeperch production, France - Design of protocols for reproduction and evaluation of developmental success in pikeperch (European project EUROSTARS).

2012 - 2016: PhD student and assistant lecturerAnimal and Functionality of Animal Products Research Unit, University of Lorraine, France - Study of the embryogenesis variability in the Eurasian perch: development of alternative approaches. 

2012: MSc Thesis - Ecophysiological Adaptations and Ontogenesis Research Team, University of Montpellier, France - The digestive physiology of different populations of the European sea bass, D. labrax, in response to starvation and refeeding. 

Publications

Academic articles

2023

Half a century of high-latitude fisheries oceanography research on the "recruitment problem" in Northeast Arctic cod (Gadus morhua)

Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Maik Tiedemann, Maud Alix, Anders Thorsen, Svein Sundby
ICES Journal of Marine Science 80 p. 1179-1201
2023

Half a century of high-latitude fisheries oceanography research on the "recruitment problem" in Northeast Arctic cod (Gadus morhua)

Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, I. Tiedemann, Maud Alix, Anders Thorsen, Svein Sundby
ICES Journal of Marine Science 80 p. 1179-1201
2023

Latitudinally distinct stocks of Atlantic cod face fundamentally different biophysical challenges under on-going climate change

Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Maud Alix, Anne Britt Sandø, Espen Strand, Peter J. Wright, David G. Johns, Anders Thorsen, C. Tara Marshall, Kjell Gunnar Bakkeplass, Frode Bendiksen Vikebø, Mari Skuggedal Myksvoll, Geir Ottersen, Bridie Jean Marie Allan, Maria Fossheim, Jan Erik Stiansen, Geir Huse, Svein Sundby
Fish and Fisheries p. 1-24
2022

Tracking oocyte development and the timing of skipped spawning for north-east Arctic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Frida Tronbøl, Edda Johannesen, Maud Alix, Thassya Christina dos Santos Schmidt, Katerina Charitonidou, Arild Folkvord, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
Journal of Fish Biology 100 p. 1464-1474
2021

Sex identification in immature Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) using ultrasonography

Yannick Ledoré, Anastasia Bestin, Pierrick Haffray, Romain Morvezen, Maud Alix, Bérénice Schaerlinger, Pascal Fontaine, Dominique Chardard
Aquaculture Research 52 p. 6046-6051
2021

Highly mixed impacts of near-future climate change on stock productivity proxies in the North East Atlantic

Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Svein Sundby, Anne Britt Sandø, Maud Alix, Solfrid Sætre Hjøllo, Maik Tiedemann, Mette Skern-Mauritzen, Claudia Junge, Maria Fossheim, Cecilie Broms, Guldborg Søvik, Fabian Zimmermann, Kjell Harald Nedreaas, Elena Eriksen, Hannes Höffle, Ann Merete Hjelset, Cecilie Kvamme, Yves Reecht, Halvor Knutsen, Asgeir Aglen, Ole Thomas Albert, Erik Berg, Bjarte Bogstad, Caroline Durif, Kim Aleksander Tallaksen Halvorsen, Åge Sigurd Høines, Carsten Hvingel, Edda Johannesen, Espen Johnsen, Even Moland, Mari Skuggedal Myksvoll, Leif Nøttestad, Erik Joel Steinar Olsen, Georg Skaret, Jon Egil Skjæraasen, Aril Slotte, Arved Staby, Erling Kåre Stenevik, Jan Erik Stiansen, Martina H. Stiasny, Jan Henry Sundet, Frode Bendiksen Vikebø, Geir Huse
Fish and Fisheries 23 p. 601-615
2021

Highly mixed impacts of near-future climate change on stock productivity proxies in the North East Atlantic

Kjesbu OS, Sundby S, Sandø AB, Alix M, Hjøllo SS, Tiedemann M, Skern-Mauritzen M, Junge C, Fossheim M, Thorsen Broms C, Søvik G, Zimmermann F, Nedreaas K, Eriksen E, Höffle H, Hjelset AM, Kvamme C, Reecht Y, Knutsen H, Aglen A, Albert OT, Berg E, Bogstad B, Durif C, Halvorsen KT, Høines Å, Hvingel C, Johannesen E, Johnsen E, Moland E, Myksvoll MS, Nøttestad L, Olsen E, Skaret G, Skjæraasen JE, Slotte A, Staby A, Stenevik EK, Stiansen JE, Stiasny M, Sundet JH, Vikebø FB, Huse G
Fish and Fisheries 23 p. 601-615
2021

Sex identification in immature Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) using ultrasonography

Yannick Ledoré, Anastasia Bestin, Pierrick Haffray, Romain Morvezen, Maud Alix, Bérénice Schaerlinger, Pascal Fontaine, Dominique Chardard
Aquaculture research 52 p. 6046– 6051
2020

Description of the unusual digestive tract of Platax orbicularis and the potential impact of Tenacibaculum maritimum infection

Maud Alix, Eric Gasset, Agnes Bardon-Albaret, Jean Noel, Nelly Pirot, Valerie Perez, Denis Covès, Denis Saulnier, Jehan-Herve Lignot, Patricia N. Cucchi
PeerJ
2020

Development of a new ‘ultrametric’ method for assessing spawning progression in female teleost serial spawners

Kelli C. Anderson, Maud Alix, Katerina Charitonidou, Anders Thorsen, Grethe Beate Thorsheim, Kostas Ganias, Thassya Christina dos Santos Schmidt, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
Scientific Reports
2020

From gametogenesis to spawning: How climate-driven warming affects teleost reproductive biology

Maud Alix, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu, Kelli C. Anderson
Journal of Fish Biology 97 p. 607-632
2019

Domestication may affect the maternal mRNA profile in unfertilized eggs, potentially impacting the embryonic development of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis)

Rocha de Almeida T, Alix M, Le Cam A, Klopp C, Montfort J, Toomey L, Ledoré Y, Chardard D, Bobe J, Schaerlinger B, Fontaine P
PLOS One p. 25
2019

Time of response to hormonal treatment but not the type of a spawning agent affects the reproductive effectiveness in domesticated pikeperch, Sander lucioperca

Daniel Żarski, Pascal Fontaine, Jennifer Roche, Maud Alix, Miroslaw Blecha, Coralie Broquard, Jarosław Król, Sylvain Milla
Aquaculture 503 p. 527-536
2017

How does a domestication process modulate oogenesis and reproductive performance in Eurasian perch?

Khendek A, Alix M, Viot S, Ledoré Y, Rousseau C, Mandiki R, Kestemont P, Policar T, Fontaine P, Milla S
Aquaculture 473 p. 206-214
2017

Deformities in newly hatched embryos of Eurasian perch populations originating from two different rearing systems

Alix M, Żarski D, Chardard D, Fontaine P, Schaerlinger B
Journal of Zoology 302 p. 126-137
2016

Effects of fasting and re-alimentation on gill and intestinal morphology and indicators of osmoregulatory capacity in genetically selected sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) populations with contrasting tolerance to fasting

Alix M, Blondeau-Bidet E, Grousset E, Shiranghi A, Vergnet A, Guinand B, Chatain B, Boulo B, Lignot JH
Aquaculture 468 p. 314-325
2015

An alternative developmental table to describe non-model fish species embryogenesis: application to the description of the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis L. 1758) development

Alix M, Chardard D, Ledoré Y, Fontaine P, Schaerlinger B
Evo-Devo 6 p. 39

Scientific lectures

2023

Is teleost fecundity style a species-characteristic trait? ‒ A re-evaluation of the ovulatory cycle of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in a changing environment

Maud Alix, Kelli Anderson, Anders Thorsen, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
2023

Is teleost fecundity style a species-characteristic trait? ‒ A re-evaluation of the ovulatory cycle of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in a changing environment

Alix M, Anderson KC, Thorsen A, Kjesbu OS
International Symposium on Reproduction Physiology of Fish, 13-19 May, Heraklion, Greece.
2022

Atlantic cod facing climate-driven warming: reproductive physiology under challenging environmental conditions

Alix M, Kleppe L, Andersson E, Norberg B, Karlsen Ø, Whatmore P., Fernandes JMO, Nedoluzhko A, Skjærven KH, Skjæraasen JE, Kjesbu OS
ICBF 2022, 28 June – 1 July, Montpellier, France
2021

IMR Climate Impact Analysis for 39 stocks in the Northeast Atlantic

Svein Sundby, Olav S. Kjesbu, Anne Britt Sandø, Maud Alix, Geir Huse
2019

How will ocean warming affect reproductive performance of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua?

Alix M, Kleppe L, Andersson E, Norberg B, Karlsen Ø, Skjæraasen JE, Kjesbu OS
2018

A transcriptomic comparison suggests a link between the domestication process and the egg quality in Eurasian perch

De Almeida T, Alix M, Schaerlinger B, Le Cam A, Montfort J, Toomey L, Bobe J, Chardard D, Fontaine P
2018

Contribution of a serious game « Hist’up » in learning of animal histology

Cucchi P, Lignot JH, Alix M, Aithamza M, Ganault P, Molinier V, Barhoumi C, Londe S, Ali AA, Godefroy N
2018

Effects of fasting and refeeding on the digestive physiology of selected sea bass populations

Alix M, Blondeau-Bidet E, Grousset E, Shiranghi A, Vergnet A, Guinand B, Chatain B, Boulo V, Lignot JH
2018

The tenacibaculosis in the tropical orbicular batfish Platax orbicularis: highlights on the trade-off in the gut between immunity, osmoregulation and digestion

Alix M, Saulnier D, Gasset E, Crusot M, Coves D, Bardon-Albaret A, Bantz A, Certain C, Lignot JH, Cucchi P
2017

Transcriptomic analysis of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) eggs assigned to distinct groups of quality

De Almeida T, Schaerlinger B, Le Cam A, Alix M, Montfort J, Bobe J, Chardard D, Fontaine P
2017

Impact of domestication process on the reproductive success of the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis): from the oogenesis to the embryonic development

Alix M, Chardard D, Ledoré Y, Schaerlinger B, Fontaine P
2015

Sex determination and egg quality evaluation in Eurasian perch, Perca fluviatilis, using ultrasonography

Alix M, Staub C, Touzé JL, Chardard D, Krauss D, Ledoré Y, Schaerlinger B, Fontaine P
2014

Effects of domestication on Eurasian perch reproduction

Milla S, Rousseau C, Viot S, Ledoré Y, Alix M, Fontaine P
2012

Effects of fasting and refeeding on the digestive physiology of selected sea bass populations

Lignot JH, Alix M, Boulo V, Guinand B, Chatain B
2012

Proteomic and morphological study of Perca fluviatilis spawn: How evaluating its reproductive performance?

Alix M

Poster

2019

From oogenesis to embryonic development: How climate change may affect reproductive performance of Atlantic cod.

Alix M, Kleppe L, Andersson E, Norberg B, Karlsen Ø, Skjæraasen JE, Kjesbu OS
2018

Effect of (xeno) -oestrogenic compounds on skeletal development in the Mediterranean Sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax

Bourdy C, Gasset E, Martinand-Mari C, Dutto G, Lallement S, Alix M, Debiais-Thibaud M, Farcy E
2018

Impact of the metamorphosis on ontogenesis of the digestive tract in a discoid fish species Platax orbicularis: a morpho-anatomical characterization

Alix M, Gasset E, Crusot M, Coves D, Saulnier D, Lignot JH, Cucchi P
2017

Role of mucins and mucus production in the digestive system of the tropical orbicular batfish (Platax orbicularis): impact of nutritional and environmental conditions

Alix M, Gasset E, Crusot M, Coves D, Bardon-Albaret A, Bantz A, Certain C, Saulnier D, Lignot JH, Cucchi P
2017

A multiparametric approach to assess the developmental success in Teleost during embryogenesis

Alix M, Żarski D, Le Roux Y, Chardard D, Schaerlinger B, Fontaine P
2017

Transcriptomic analysis of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) eggs assigned to various groups of qualities according to a statistically based analysis

De Almeida T, Schaerlinger B, Le Cam A, Alix M, Montfort J, Bobe J, Chardard D, Fontaine P
2016

Etude du développement embryonnaire normal et anormal chez la perche commune (Perca fluviatilis)

Alix M, Chardard D, Ledoré Y, Fontaine P, Schaerlinger B
2015

Comparison of oogenesis progress and egg quality in domesticated and wild Eurasian perch females under photothermal treatment

Khendek A, Milla S, Alix M, Personne A, Ledoré Y, Viot S, Rousseau C, Fontaine P
2015

Histological study of embryogenesis and classification of developmental impairments in the Eurasian perch, Perca fluviatilis

Alix M, Chardard D, Feizbakhsh O, Ledoré Y, Schaerlinger B, Fontaine P
2013

Mise en place du développement embryonnaire, caractérisation des malformations et mortalités chez la perche commune, Perca fluviatilis

Alix M, Schaerlinger B, Ledoré Y, Chardard D, Bobe J, Fontaine P
2013

Developmental staging and deformities characterization of the Eurasian perch, Perca fluviatilis

Alix M, Schaerlinger B, Ledoré Y, Chardard D, Fontaine P

Reports and dissertations

2023

Working Group on Atlantic Fish Larvae and Eggs Surveys (WGALES; outputs from 2022 meeting).

ICES
ICES Scientific Reports 5:30 p. 43
2022

Miljøverdiers sårbarhet i Norske havområder—En gjennomgang av sårbarhet til ulike typer påvirkninger i foreslåtte særlig verdifulle og sårbare områder i norske havområder

Hansen, C., Hjøllo, S. S., Ottersen, G., & Skern-Mauritzen, M.
Rapport fra Havforskningen 33 p. 124
Is this your profile? Edit your profile (login)