After two year of zoom, our first in person meeting, for our HFSP consortium in Bordeaux. How do plants deal with decision making at the multicellular level without a centralized nervous system ?   With Sarah Walker, Rishi Balherao, George Bassel ’s and E. Bayer’s teams. Brillant discussions super nice time together ! 

Erwan Chavonet joined the lab as Post Doc June 1rst, just in time to start an experiment on combined abiotic and biotic stress on grapevine, in the frame of the GPR “Biology Plant Science” funded project PROMISE. This collaborative project involves Fred and Claire from our unit, as well as researchers from the neighbor units BFP ,

We are very happy to welcome in the lab Armel Mouako Pandong, from IRAD La Dibamba (Cameroun). He will stay 3 months for his master 2 internship to discover our lab and analyse palm oil extracts. His internship is funded by the CNRS in the frame of the Germpalm project, a collaborative project between France

Between June 13th and 15th, the very best of European research community in plant science has gathered in Bordeaux for the EPSO general assembly invited by the GPR Bordeaux Plant Science, the University of Bordeaux and INRAE Bordeaux. Three 3 days of uninterrupted labor, scientific work and discussions on plant sciences in which Jérôme Joubès,

From May 10th to 13th, a thematic school entitled « Lipid Analyses applied to palm samples” was organized by Laetitia Fouille, Denis Coulon and Claire Bréhélin. This school was funded by the CNRS in the frame of the Germpalm project, a collaborative project between France and Africa. We were very happy to welcome Felicité Djien, PhD

The beautiful season is coming, so that everyone can have lunch while enjoying the sun the LBM bought 2 picnic tables.2 tables, 2 assembly teams, one has been faster ^

Today was our first Monday face to face seminar , we enjoyed a lot being truly together 🙂

Jules PETIT brilliantly defended his thesis on the Friday the 4th of March in the presence of the committee members: Marie-Cécile Caillaud (ENS-Lyon), Yohann Boutté (LBM), Antoine Taly (IBPC), Amit Joshi (Univ. of Tennessee), Stefano Vanni (Univ. Fribourg), Marie-Laure Fauconnier (Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech). Congratulations to you Doctor!

Welcome to Youcef Haddad how join the team of Sébastien Mongrand for his master 2 internship 🙂

Within the framework of the GERPALM project financed by the CNRS’s support for collaborations with sub-Saharan African countries, Claire Bréhélin met with her collaborator Georges Ngando and visited the research center of CIRAD at La Dibamba,