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Cédric BERTRAND – UPVD /RFE BIOV (Président) |
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Régis Berthelot – BESTIM |
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Claire PRIGENT-COMBARET – COST |
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Sébastien OLIER – en charge de la coordination |
Ioannis Stringlis
Dr. Ioannis Stringlis is Assistant Professor of Phytopathology at the Agricultural University of Athens. He is working on a) plant-microbiome-pathogen interactions, b) mechanisms of induced systemic resistance in plants, c) interaction between iron deficiency and pathogens, and d) plant defense mechanisms activated in response to phytopathogens and beneficial microbes. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Professor, he has performed his PhD studies and later worked as postdoctoral researcher at Plant-Microbe Interactions group (Chair: Prof. Corné Pieterse) in Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2012 – 2023). He has obtained his BSc (2003 – 2008) and MSc (2010 – 2012) degrees in Agricultural University of Athens.
Cédric Bertrand
Cédric Bertrand obtained his Engineer degrees at the ENSAT, National Institute of Agronomy (Graduate School of Life Sciences) of Toulouse (in 1998) and his PhD (in 2001) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse on the studies of natural products chemistry from plant. After two post-doctoral period, (2001-2002) at the University Paris V, where he conducted research on biotransformation of synthetic products and (2002-2004) at University of Perpignan on environmental chemistry he worked as associated professor at the University of Lyon 1 on chemical mediator in plant-microorganisms symbiosis (2004-2008). Since 2008, he is associated professor, and in 2016, professor at the University of Perpignan focusing his research on secondary metabolites and environmental fate of biopesticide, moreover he is particularly interested in the development of a metabolomic tools for environmental stress studying on microcosm. He is one of the co-founder of Akinao. Akinao is founded in 2010. In order to meet growing industrial needs in the bio-control sector (bio-pesticides, elicitors, biocides, etc.). He is the chairman of the “Académie du Biocontrôle et de la Protection Biologique Intégrée” (ABPBI) et chairman du “Réseau Francophone d’Etude des Biosolutions Agricoles pour la Production Végétale » (BIOV).
Azucena González
Dr. González Coloma is a Senior Scientific Researcher in the Department of Plant Protection of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences of the CSIC in Spain. Her line of research focuses on the biotechnological production of botanical and fungal biopesticides. Her research includes bioprospection, production and optimization of biopesticides from the flora of various regions of Spain and other parts of the world, agricultural residues and fungal endophytes. The group of biopesticides that she leads is multidisciplinary, it screens and identifies metabolites with insecticidal, antifungal and nematicidal effects. She also explores mechanisms of action and structure-activity relationships, biotechnological optimization of the production of endophyte metabolites, plant metagenomic approaches to endophyte discovery and priming effects of these active metabolites on crops. She has published more than 200 scientific articles in indexed journals, elaborated patents (11) and has directed 14 Doctoral Theses among other contributions. She has led numerous national and international research projects at national, international and cooperation levels.
Valérie Leclère
Valérie Leclère is currently professor in microbiology at the University of Lille where she co-leads the team « Microbial secondary metabolites » in the cross-border joint unit BioEcoAgro. The research group is mainly interested in lipopeptides with skills covering the whole value chain (prediction by genome mining, production processes, structural characterization, biological activities especially related to biocontrol applications).
She has spent near 20 years working on the nonribosomal peptides biosynthetic pathways containing the modular mega-enzyles NRPSs, with a combination of bioinformatics and molecular biology approaches. She participated to the development of bioinformatics tools as the Norine database and workflows facilitating the identification of original metabolites from genomic data. She is also interested in exploring the biodiversity of the lipopeptides mainly produced by bacteria as Bacillus, Pseudomonas or Burkholderia.
Tilmann Weber
Tilmann Weber is Professor for Natural Products Genome Mining and Associate Scientific Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability of the Technical University of Denmark. Here he leads the interdisciplinary research group “Natural Products Genome Mining”. His main research interest is focused on deciphering the molecular pathways and engineering the biosynthesis of natural products by combining genetic, biochemical and bioinformatics methods. He is a pioneer in developing software for the automated genome mining (e.g., antiSMASH, antiSMASH-DB, BGCFLow) and analysis and engineering of secondary metabolite biosynthetic pathways encoding the biosynthesis of antibiotics or compounds for sustainable agriculture. To enable modern metabolic engineering strategies in under-studied secondary/specialized metabolite producing microorganisms, he is furthermore deeply involved in developing CRISPR-based metabolic engineering tools for bacteria.
Marie-Virginie Salvia
Dr. Marie-Virginie Salvia (HDR) joined the CRIOBE laboratory located at the University of Perpignan in September 2015 as an associate professor. Her research interests are focused on both analytical and environmental chemistry (water, soil, sediment, plant matrices). Indeed, she develops innovative approaches based on metabolomics in order to answer environmental problematics (ex. evaluation of the environmental fate and impact of biopesticides). Her studies has mainly led to 25 publications, 1 patent and 1 book chapter. She is treasurer in the BioV association.
