Teaching at BIOM
The teaching team
Stéphanie Bertrand, Laurence Besseau, Marc Besson
BIOM’s professors are involved in teaching on the Pierre and Marie Curie campus of the Sorbonne University Faculty of Science and Engineering and in the courses taught at l’Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls/Mer. The courses for which students are welcomed and accommodated at the marine station and in which the unit’s professors participate, are as follows:
Second-year bachelor’s degree
- Ecology and Biology of Marine Organisms (ECOBIOM, LU2SV465)
- Diversity of Marine Interactions (DIMAR, LU2SV365)

Master’s degree in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution
M1 level, program Systematic, Evolution, Paleontology :
- Adaptation and Phylogeny (ADAPHYL, MU4BEB22)
M1 level, program Ecophysiologie et Ecotoxicologie
- Methodological workshops: “Labeling and cellular imaging” (MARICEL, MU4BEB14)
- International Spring School 4EU+: Biodiversity & Ecotoxicology in Mediterranean Ecosystems (BEME, MU4MR01)
M2 level, program Ecophysiology and Ecotoxicology
- Biotests and bioresources in the marine environment (B2M2, MU5BEB45)
- Light, Biological Rhythms: origin, consequences and control of biological activities (BIORHYTHMS, MU5BIM07)



Master’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology
M2 level, program Biologie Marine : de la molécule à l’organisme
- Metazoans and evolutionary biology (MU5BM201, open in 2025)

Master’s degree in Marine Sciences
M1 level
- Concept and Practice in Biological Oceanography, Part 2: Biodiversity and Taxonomy (CPOB, MU4MRM22)
- Concept and Practice in Biological Oceanography, Part 3: Ecology and Methodology (CPOB, MU4MRM23)
- Summer School : Mediterranean Ecology (ECOMED, MU4MRM50)
- Summer School : Exploring marine microbial worlds: practical approaches (MicroWorlds, MU4MRM57)
M2 level
- Scientific and technical methodologies: creating scientific content and media (Project Course, 5EU001)

The courses in which BIOM professors participate on the Paris campus and/or online are as follows:
First-year bachelor’s degree
- Supervised Research Workshops: METOX, the impact of heavy metals on marine organisms (LU1SXARE)
Master’s degree in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution
M1 level, program Ecophysiology and Ecotoxicology
- Ecophysiology (4BEB04)
- Ecotoxicology and toxicology (4BEB13)
- Methodology for BEE (MU4BEB02)
Contact us
Stéphanie Bertrand : stephanie.bertrand’@’obs-banyuls.fr
Laurence Besseau : besseau’@’obs-banyuls.fr
Marc Besson : marc.besson’@’obs-banyuls.fr