An annual budget of 150 k €/year is dedicated to this call for projects and can be used for all expenses: operation, subcontracting, missions, conferences, staff. Equipment investments only are not possible. Few projects are selected (2 to 5 projects maximum) in order to reach a good level of financing per project, the duration of which can be one or two years maximum. This call opened in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022, it already allowed to financially support 23 projects after selection made by our International Scientific Board (ISB).
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Deadline for submission of projects: February 17, 2023
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Call CLOSE, results mid-december
Year 2022-2023
Project applicant | Project title | Unit |
Lisa Jacquin and Joël White | MICROPOLL : Pollution and multistress effects on fish‐microbiota interactions : from molecules to populations | EDB |
Staffan Jacob, Delphine Legrand and Lucie Zinger | PhenoChoice : Phenotypic plasticity and habitat choice in a fluctuating world: merging microcosms and nature | SETE |
Arnaud Lagroce and Marie-Agnès Travers | EpiVib : Deciphering epigenetic and transcriptomic regulations in the oyster pathogen Vibrio aestarianus | IHPE |
Artemis Perraki | RE-HEAT : How does receptor signalling respond to heat stress in the tapetum? | LRSV |
Year 2020-2021-2022
Project applicant | Project title | Unit |
Jean-Marc Deragon | Exploring how tRNA and rRNA epitranscriptomic status impact short and long-term heat stress memory using Arabidopsis natural populations | LGDP |
Grégory Vert and Christophe Roux | Can plants use soil microorganism-derived siderophores to take up iron ? | LRSV |
Julien Cucherousset | Ecosystem synchrony: a novel currency to quantify ecosystem response and resilience to global change | EDB |
Delphine Capela +TPMP | Engineering bacteria and plant to evolve nitrogen-fixing mutualistic interactions | LIPME |
Benjamin Gourion | Life after symbiosis ? Exploring the rhizobial fate and physiology during the legume nodule senescence. | LIPME |
Christophe Dunand | From water to land and back to water: did aquatic Angiosperms keep genetic signatures ?) | LRSV |
Sandra BENSMIHEN, co-PIs: Pierre Marc DELAUX / Julien PIRRELLO | Does a dedicated HOrmonal PAthway exist to integratE Symbiosis and root development? | LIPME / LRSV |
Nathalie Picault | Impact of transposons on plant adaptation and development by alternative splicing | LGDP |
Year 2018
Project applicant | Project title | Unit |
Caroline Baroukh | Metabolic modelling of A Plant Pathogen Interaction (MAPPI) | LIPM |
Simon Blanchet | The contribution of intraspecific diversity to ecosystem functioning | SETE |
Fabrice Roux | A citizen project for establishing a genomic map of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana to climate, soil and microbiota (OPTIMA) | LIPM |
Caroline Baroukh project summary
Metabolic modelling of A Plant Pathogen Interaction (MAPPI)
« In this project, we propose to use a combination of modeling and experimental approaches to decipher the metabolic plant-pathogen interaction. Our objectives will be to i) better understand the metabolic adaptation that undergoes the pathogen once inside the plant, ii) know which substrates of the plant sustain the growth of the pathogen, and iii) identify pathways potentially targeted by the pathogen to increase its metabolic proficiency. The model organisms used will be the bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum and the agronomical plant tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum). To reach a precise representation of the plant pathogen system and accurate predictions, experiments will be necessary to calibrate the model. The budget will mainly be used to this end, via the employment of a research assistant. »
Simon Blanchet project summary
The contribution of intraspecific diversity to ecosystem functioning
« This project aims at quantifying the contribution of intraspecific diversity to the functioning of ecosystems, and at identifying the mechanisms underlying intraspecific BEFs. The project focuses on three freshwater species interacting within a trophic network, and it combines empirical and experimental approaches. A first task aims at determining whether intraspecific diversity substantially contributes to ecosystem functioning in the wild. Using observational data gathered along a climatic gradient, we will quantify the effects of intraspecific diversity on key ecological functions, compare the strength of intraspecific BEFs between the target species, and compare the contribution of intraspecific diversity to ecosystem functioning to that of climate. In a second task, we will set an experiment varying intraspecific diversity and climate to tease apart direct effects due to intraspecific diversity and climate, as well as indirect effects of climate mediated by intraspecific diversity on ecosystem functioning. This project should lead to an novel integrative framework linking abiotic drivers, intra- and interspecific diversity, and ecosystem functions. »
Fabrice Roux project summary
A citizen project for establishing a genomic map of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana to climate, soil and microbiota (OPTIMA)
« A major challenge in evolutionary ecology is to describe the genomic architecture underlying local adaptation. Establishing genomic maps of local adaptation is particularly relevant to predict the potential of species to respond to global changes. However, although species are exposed to a large range of abiotic and biotic selective agents in their natural habitats, most genomic maps of local adaptation published so far have been established for climate variation. To fill this gap, this project aims at establishing a genomic map of local adaptation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to soil physico-chemical properties and soil microbiota, along with climate. To achieve this goal, we will combine the advantages of (i) Genome-Environment Association analysis based on 168 whole-genome sequenced natural populations of A. thaliana located in the south-west of France and (ii) reciprocal common gardens based on a unique citizen project that will allow estimating the performance of all these populations in 60 common gardens. This exploratory project represents an exciting opportunity (i) for estimating the relative importance of abiotic and biotic factors on the extent of local adaptation in A. thaliana, and (ii) for prospective research on the identification of novel functional mechanisms underlying local adaptation in A. thaliana. »
Year 2016
Project applicant | Project title | Unit |
Laurent Deslandes & Nemo Peeters | Explore Plant integrated decoy diversity to trap Ralstonia solanacearum type III effectors | LIPM |
Benjamin Gourion | Risks associated with nodulation (possibility that it can be exploited by pathogens) | LIPM |
Jean-Philippe Combier | Function and comparative analysis of microRNA-encoded petides in plants and animals | LRSV |
Jean-Baptiste Ferdy | Adaptation of pathogens to host microbiomes | EDB |
Year 2014
Project applicant | Project title | Unit |
Benoit PUJOL | Predicting the ability of wild populations to adapt as a function of non genetic inheritance (PAW) | EDB |
Sylvain Raffaele | Virulence function and evolution of Sclerotinia signals manipulating plant RNA silencing pathways (ScleRNAi) | LIPM |
Alexis Chaine | Human Altruism Genes | SETE |
Year 2012
Project applicant | Project title | Unit |
Stephane Genin | System level investigation of Ralstonia solanacearum metabolic and regulatory networks to infer the pathogen-induced metabolic fluxes during plant infection | LIPM |
Guillaume Bécard | Discovering the ecological importance of lipochitooligosaccharides as signaling molecules in plant biotic interactions | LRSV |
Catherine Masson | Environmental and genetic factors triggering hypermutability during experimental evolution of legume symbionts | LIPM |
Etienne Danchin | Social Heredity (SOC-H²) | EDB |
André Pornon & Christophe Andalo | Studying interaction network in changing plant and pollinator communities by DNA barcoding (POLLIBAR) | EDB |