About
me
I am currently...
...a postdoctoral fellow in the Di Santo lab.➣ Using 3D kinematics, I try to understand why fishes choose to walk over swim under certain environmental conditions.
➣ I use µCT scans and specimens from museum collections to characterize long-term mineralization patterns in bony fish facing climate change.
My degrees
Doctor of Philosophy
PhD Evolution & Development, Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier, France & Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, France.
Multiscale variation of 3D tooth forms in selachians and developmental and evolutionary inferences: Odyssey of a scyliorhinid tooth.
Master of Science
M.Sc. Marine Biology and Ecology, European Institute for Marine Studies, Brest, France.
➣ Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada.
Phenotypic regionalization of the vertebral column in the thorny skate Amblyraja radiata: stability and variation.
➣ Oceanological Observatory of Banyuls-sur-mer, France.
Long-term experiment on growth dynamics of hydrothermal mussels Bathymodiolus thermophilus related to hydrothermal fluids dynamics.
Bachelor of Science
B.Sc. Biology, University of Bordeaux, France.
➣ Institute for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France.
Effects of serotonin on aggressiveness of the invasive Louisiana crayfish Procambarus clarkii.
➣ Zoo of Bordeaux-Pessac, Bordeaux, France.
Amble biomechanics in felids, camelids, and giraffids.
Research
Current
Fish gaits
Walking and swimming kinematics
Skeletal mineralisation of fish facing climate change
Long-term impacts on a Baltic Sea population
Navigation abilities in blind fish
Role of lateral line in complex environments
Ontogeny of shoaling under climate change
Effects of temperature on shoaling patterns in zebrafish
Previous
Growing chimaeras in aquaria
Optimal parameters and life history traits
Intraspecific tooth shape diversity in scyliorhinids
Among sexes and along the ontogeny
Mineralization patterns in chondrichthyans
Cell and matrix types in vertebrae
Shaping a shark tooth: Which proteins?
In vivo and in silico approaches to test the role of specific proteins
Odontode development
Comparing gene expression patterns between teeth and denticles
Two populations: same teeth?
Discriminating teeth from catshark populations
Skates skeleton
Axial regionalisation of the vertebral column in the thorny skate Amblyraja radiata
Publications
S. Z. Marketaki, F. Berio & V. Di Santo (2025). Compensatory sensory mechanisms in
naïve
blind cavefish navigating novel environments after lateral line ablation. — Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2025.111863
F. Berio, C. Morerod & V. Di Santo (2025). Speed-dependent locomotor patterns during steady swimming in a demersal shark. — Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70043
F. A. López-Romero, E. Villalobos-Segura, J. Türtscher, F. Berio, S. Stumpf, R. P. Dearden, J. Kriwet & E. Maldonado (2025). Evolution of the batoidea pectoral fin skeleton: convergence, modularity, and integration driving disparity trends. — Evolutionary Ecology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10682-025-10330-x
M. Ishida, F. Berio, V. Di Santo, N. H. Shubin & F. Iida (2024). Paleoinspired robotics as an experimental approach to the history of life. — Science Robotics. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adn1125
O. J. Atake, F. Berio, M. Debiais-Thibaud & B. F. Eames (2024). Extant cartilaginous fishes share trabecular and areolar mineralization patterns, but not tesserae, and evidence for a paedomorphic chimaera skeleton. — eLife. https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/94900
F. Berio, R. Charron, J.-M. Dagouret, F. De Gasperis, A. Éon, E. Meunier, M. Simonet, N. Verschraegen & N. Hirel (2024). Husbandry conditions of spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei, Chimaeriformes) in aquaria for successful embryonic development and long-term survival of juveniles. — Zoo Biology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/zoo.21813
F. Berio, C. Morerod, X. Qi & V. Di Santo (2023). Ontogenetic plasticity in shoaling behavior in a forage fish under warming. — Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad043
R. Zimm, F. Berio, M. Debiais-Thibaud & N. Goudemand (2023). A shark-inspired general model of tooth morphogenesis unveils developmental asymmetries in phenotype transitions. — PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216959120
F. Berio*, Y. Bayle*, D. Baum, N. Goudemand & M. Debiais-Thibaud (2022). Hide and seek shark teeth in Random Forests: Machine learning applied to Scyliorhinus canicula. — PeerJ. https://peerj.com/articles/13575
F. Berio*, Y. Bayle*, S. Agret, D. Baum, N. Goudemand & M. Debiais-Thibaud (2022). 3D models related to the publication: Hide and seek shark teeth in Random Forests: Machine learning applied to Scyliorhinus canicula. — MorphoMuseuM. https://morphomuseum.com/Articles/view/164
F. A. López-Romero, F. Berio, D. Abed-Navandi & J. Kriwet (2022). Early shape divergence of developmental trajectories in the jaw of galeomorph sharks. — Frontiers in Zoology, 19, 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-022-00452-1
F. Berio, Y. Bayle, C. Riley, O. Larouche & R. Cloutier (2021).
Phenotypic regionalization of the vertebral column in the thorny skate Amblyraja radiata:
stability and variation. — Journal of Anatomy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.13551
F. Berio, M. Broyon, S. Enault, N. Pirot, F. A. López-Romero & M. Debiais-Thibaud
(2021).
Diversity and Evolution of Skeletal Tissues in Chondrichthyans. — Frontiers in Ecology and
Evolution, 9, 223. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.660767
F. Berio (2021).
Multiscale variation of 3D tooth forms in selachians and developmental and evolutionary inferences:
Odyssey of a scyliorhinid tooth. — PhD thesis. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03279588/document
F. Berio, A. Evin, N. Goudemand & M. Debiais-Thibaud (2020).
The intraspecific diversity of tooth morphology in the large-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus
stellaris: insights into the ontogenetic cues driving sexual dimorphism. — Journal
of Anatomy, 237(5), 960-978. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joa.13257
F. Berio & Y. Bayle (2020).
Scyland3D: Processing 3D landmarks. — Journal of Open Science Software. https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.01262
F. Berio & M. Debiais-Thibaud (2019). Evolutionary developmental genetics of teeth and odontodes in jawed vertebrates: A perspective from the study of elasmobranch fishes. — Journal of Fish Biology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14225
Oral presentations
F. Berio, R. Charron, J.-M. Dagouret, F. De Gasperis, A. Éon, L. Lambert, E. Meunier, M.
Simonet, N. Verschraegen & N. Hirel (2022). Hatching in an aquarium: First insights from
successful breeding of the spotted ratfish Hydrolagus colliei. —
Sharks International 2022, Valencia, Spain, Online talk.
F. Berio & M. Debiais-Thibaud (2020). Diversity and evolution of mineralized neural arches in cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyans). — Tomography for Scientific Advancement Symposium, Online conference.
F. Berio, S. Enault, M. Debiais-Thibaud (2019). Histological description of cell types involved in the chondrichthyan skeletogenesis. — Comparative Cartilage Biology meeting, Banyuls-sur-mer, France.
F. Berio, A. Evin, M. Debiais-Thibaud & N. Goudemand (2018). Tooth shape variation in the large-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus stellaris. — 10th Symposium on Morphometry and Evolution of Forms, Bordeaux, France.
Poster presentations
F. Berio, C. Morerod, P. Schmitz & V. Di Santo (2023).
How and why fishes walk: A biomechanics perspective.
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Society for Experimental Biology Centenary Conference, Edinburgh.
F. Berio, A. Evin, M. Debiais-Thibaud & N. Goudemand (2018). A sex- and stage- dependent smile: Exploring tooth shape variation in the large-spotted catshark. — Doctoral School, Public Prize.
F. Berio, A. Evin, M. Debiais-Thibaud & N. Goudemand (2018). Intra- and interspecific tooth shape variation in sharks: Phenotypic plasticity and developmental constraints on tooth evolution. — 7th EuroEvoDevo, Galway, Ireland & Evolution, Montpellier, France.
Hobbies
Scuba diving
Level 2 FFESSM
Marine biology
and conservation
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