INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine Presentation (UK)

7/21/2019 INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine Presentation (UK)

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Bordeaux-Aquitaine Centre

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Located deep within a vast agricultural and forest region, the INRABordeaux-Aquitaine Centre conducts innovative and targeted plantscience, ecological and environmental research in response to currentchallenges in the agricultural, forestry and aquaculture sectors.

BORDEAUXAQUITAINE RESEARCH CENTRE

A key player in the regional research ecosystem, our Centre brings together more than 1,000 researchers,engineers and technicians and over 100 PhD students and postdocs on three main sites and five smaller sites.Our labs attract over 190 partner research fellows, engineers and technicians (University of Bordeaux, BordeauxSciences Agro, University of Pau and Pays de LAdour, Bordeaux Polytechnic Institute and CNRS), testifying to ourenterprise in developing joint projects. Our scientific strategy hinges on large-scale investment in laboratories

of excellence (LabEx), scientific interest groups and federative research structures.To ensure our research is in line with societys expectations, we work closely with socio-economic players andraise public awareness through the implementation of scientific and technical cultural initiatives.

We mobilise a wide range of scientific expertise inenvironmental physics and chemistry, plant physiology andpathology, agronomy, genetics and ecology for our researchprojects to addresses four major challenges of regionalimportance:1. Strengthen competitiveness and sustainability in the

agricultural fruit, forestry and animal production industries.2. Promote ecological management of agrosystemsand cultivated forests.3. Contribute to a healthy and sustainable diet.4. Make effective use of plant biomass.

Major partners in the region

Hubert de Rochambeau

President of the Bordeaux-Aquitaine Centre

Regional INRA Delegate

Our scientific resources and expertise revolve aroundthree priorities of the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3)defined by the Aquitaine region: precision agriculture andagro-food eco-efficiency; geoscience and metrology forsustainable management of natural resources; and themobilisation of biomass and the development

of biorefineries for industry.The challenges are such that they transcend the confinesof regional concerns, giving our research and partnershipsan international reach.

The LabEx COTE project, created from a emblematic partnership

between INRA and the University of Bordeaux, is aimed at improving our

understanding of and predicting ecosystem responses to human-induced

changes and at developing tools and methods to control this evolution.

OURRESEARCH REGIONAL PRIORITIES

OF INTERNATIONAL SCOPE


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1Todays global changes are impacting our terrestrial and

aquatic ecosystems. For their sustainable management, we

need to find out more about how these ecosystems work

and the services they provide, and understand and predict

their long-term evolution.

Our teams use modelling techniques to identify the climatic,biotic and anthropogenic factors behind environmentalchanges and their impact on the properties of our ecosystems(structures, processes, services and organisational rules),and to examine the adjustment mechanisms and responsesof these ecosystems (resistance, adaptation, migration). Ourresearch work focuses on key regional industries (fruit trees,grapes, fish, forestry and field crops), while analysing theimpact of these changes on the international scale.

Our research priorities

FUNCTIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY OF CONTINENTALECOSYSTEMS FOREST, PERENNIAL CROPS, AQUATIC BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES1INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND THEIR PATHOSYSTEMS

GRAPES, FRUIT SPECIES2

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2Biodiversity, Genes and Communities Joint Research Unit (UMRBIOGECO)Behavioural Ecology and Fish Population Biology Joint ResearchUnit (UMR ECOBIOP)Ecophysiology and Grape Functional Genomics Joint ResearchUnit (UMR EGFV)Vineyard Health and Agroecology Joint Research Unit(UMR SAVE)Atmosphere-Plant-Soil Interactions Joint Research Unit(UMR ISPA)Mycology and Food Safety Research Unit (UR MycSA)

Plant and Environmental Analyses Service Unit (USRAVE)

Research units and facilities

Bordeaux Wine-Growing Experimental PlatformCestas-Pierroton Forestry Experimental Platform

Experimental units

Institute of Vine and Wines Sciences (ISVV)LabEx COTEEquipex XyloforestFunctional Genomic Centre of Bordeaux (CGFB) PlatformsAquatic Environments and Resources Federative ResearchStructure (SFR MIRA)Integrative Biology and Ecology Federative Research Structure(SFR BIE)European network of excellence EVOLution of TREEs as driversof terrestrial biodiversity (EVOLTREE)Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change Joint TechnologicalNetwork (RMT AFORCE)

Fertilisation and Environment Joint Technological Network(RMT F&E)Sanitary Quality of Vegetable Crops Joint Technological Network(RMT QUASAPROVE)

Associated networks and platforms

Bordeaux Sciences AgroCNRSIFREMERINRIABordeaux Polytechnic Institute (IPB)IRSTEAAquitaine Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe (OASU)University of Bordeaux

University of Pau and Pays de lAdour (UPPA)

Academic partners

Oak samples waiting to be analysed (Genobois technical platform) A. Girard, INRA


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Find out more about our latest newsand researchs

www.bordeaux-aquitaine.inra.fr/

2e agricultural and agri-food sectors need to meet quality

peratives, and to rise to the challenges of economic and

vironmental efficiency. We combine different plant

ence approaches to better understand what determines

d to improve production quality.

ough our research, we aim to get a better understandinghe factors influencing the development of fruits and seeds

d their nutritional, taste and health qualities (mycotoxins,vy metals). We also place an emphasis on identifying plantsnomic and ecological benefits at various levels (from the

ne to the phenotype), while considering interactions betweennts, pests and insects. Our teams conduct research on modelcies and on species of regional economic importance, such as

est trees, vines, fruits, vegetables and corn.

Institute of Vine and Wines Sciences (ISVV)National MetaboHUB and PHENOME InfrastructuresFunctional Genomic Centre of Bordeaux (CGFB) PlatformsIntegrative Biology and Ecology Federative Research Structure(SFR BIE)European network for planted forests (EFI ATLANTIC)Sanitary Quality of Vegetable Crops Joint TechnologicalNetwork (RMT QUASAPROVE)Plant Health Diagnosis Joint Technological Network(RMT VEGDIAG)Prunus Genetic Resources Centre (CRG)


Bordeaux Sciences AgroCNRSUniversity of Bordeaux

Academic partners

Cestas-Pierroton Forestry Experimental PlatformBordeaux Wine-Growing Experimental PlatformArboreal Experimental Platform

xperimental units

Research units and facilities

Fruit Biology and Pathology Joint Research Unit (UMR BFP)

Biodiversity, Genes and Communities Joint Research Unit(UMR BIOGECO)Ecophysiology and Grape Functional Genomics Joint ResearchUnit (UMR EGFV)Mycology and Food Safety Research Unit (UR MycSA)Plant and Environmental Analyses Service Unit (USRAVE)Oenology Unit Under Contract (USC OEnologie)

Our outstanding units

Marking of microglia and neurons. J.-C. Delpech, NutriNeurO

ny mildew infection on the American Concord hybrid (Michigan, USA) F. Delmotte, INRA

Outstanding units lend further substance to our

Centres research programme and help meet

todays scientific challenges in the fields of human

nutrition and neurobiology, fish nutrition, human

health and wood.

In terms of aquaculture nutrition, we are currently seekingto understand how nutrients regulate the metabolicpathways in fish using an integrative approach, from genesto the animal. In nutrition and human health, our teamsare studying the impact of nutrition on brain function andthe pathogenic role and epidemiology of two bacteria(mycoplasma and chlamydia) in order to improve infectiondiagnoses and treatment. Finally, we are analysing the linksbetween wood properties, environmental determinants

and forestry practices to make more effective use of woodas a material.

Research units

Nutrition and Integrative Neurobiology(UMR NutriNeurO)Nutrition, Metabolism, Aquaculture (NuMeA)Research UnitMycoplasmal and Chlamydial Infections in HumansUnit Under Contract (USC IHMC)Bordeaux Institute of Mechanics and EngineeringUnit Under Contract (USC I2M)

Experimental units

Benquet Foie Gras Palmipeds Experimental PlatformSaint-Martin-de-Hinx Corn Experimental Platform


Equipex XyloforestLabEx BRAINFood, Lipidic Nutrients and Brain Joint TechnologicalUnit (UMT ALICE)

Academic partners

CNRScole nationale suprieure darts et mtiers (NationalSchool of Arts and Crafts), Arts et Mtiers ParisTechBordeaux Polytechnic Institute (IPB)University of BordeauxUniversity of Pau and Pays de LAdour (UPPA)


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Structured partnerships with socio-economic playersOur Centre is act ively involved in two competitiveness c lusters: Xylofutur, which brings together key playersin the wood and forestry sectors for technology transfer to industry; and Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation,developing an agri-chain strategy for the benefit of the agro-food and agricultural sectors.

The preferred partner of the wine industry (CIVB, IFV), we are also a member of the InnoVin cluster, set upto support the economic development of wine-related enterprises.We have forged productive partnerships with the Chambers of Agriculture and with technical institutes toencourage innovation and to transfer new technologies to industry. In this respect, we are actively involved infour scientific interest groups devoted to securing the future of the maritime pine (GIS Pin maritime du futur),fish farms (GIS Piscicultures de demain), foie gras palmipeds (GIS Palmiple), and diadromous fish (GIS GRISAM).These successful partnerships have naturally led to our involvement in two economic interest groups (fruit andvegetables, flowers and plants), four joint technological networks (AFORCE, Fertilisation and Environment,QUASAPROVE and VEGDIAG) and a Food, Lipidic Nutrients and Brain (UMT ALICE) joint technological unit.

A partnership strategy built on scientific excellence

Involved in 10 projects conducted under the Frenchgovernments Invest in the Future programme, ourCentre contributes to the development of high-levelregional training, research and innovation.As part of this initiative, we coordinate the XyloforestEquipment of Excellence (Equipex) project, aimed atdeveloping sustainable and innovative solutions forincreasing competitiveness in the wood and forestrysectors, and the national MetaboHUB infrastructuredevoted to metabolomics and fluxomics. We also co-manage the LabEx (Laboratory of Excellence) COTE

project on the evolution of continental and coastalecosystems and contribute actively to the LabEx BRAINproject on neuroscience and to LabEx AMADEus onadvanced materials.

We have three CGFB (Functional Genomic Centre of Bordeaux) IBiSA-certified technology platforms, providing high-quality technological services and enablinginnovative methodological developments:

The Metabolome-Fluxome platform for biochemical analyses of plant derivatives;The Genome-Transcriptome platform for high-throughput nucleic acid sequencing, mutation testing and genotyping,

The Plant Imaging Division of the Bordeaux Imaging Centre for cellular imaging in health and plant sciences.In addition, environmental monitoring structures (Soere, ORE) enable us to track migratory fish (DiaFC), fluxes between vegetation and the atmosphere (ICOS)and forestry practices (ECOSYLVE).

Collective scientific projects and infrastructure

Focus on

MetaboHUB: a national infrastructure for metabolomics and fluxomics

MetaboHUB provides state-of-the-art methodological and analytical tools and services to researchers andindustrial partners working in areas where a good understanding of the metabolome and its analysis playa decisive role. MetaboHUB, which combines four IBiSa-certified platforms, coordinates and provides support for fundamental and appliedresearch in the fields of human health and nutrition, food production and sustainable agriculture, green chemistry, the environment and whitebiotechnology. Faced with the challenge of processing and analysing large data sets, the MetaboHUB has already helped develop a workflowoffering a centralised set of tools for analysing, handling and visualising data derived from metabolomics analyses.The MetaboHUB receives support from INRA and the CEA in association with the CNRS, INSAT, INSERM, the University of Bordeaux, Blaise PascalUniversity (Clermont-Ferrand), Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse) and Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris).

PARTNERSHIPS, ADDING VALUE, INNOVATIONNew feeding strategies

for farmed fish

The NuMeA research unit is helping to developsustainable aquaculture systems by studyingthe obstacles to effective feed devoid ofhalieutic raw materials. For example, we havedeveloped a new nutritional programmingstrategy to adapt fish to a new feed throughearly nutritional intervention. We havealready demonstrated that exposing troutfry to a plant-based diet from an early agesignificantly improves their acceptance and

use of the same diet when administered atlater stages of life.

Farmed fish fed with plant-based feed formulations. A. Girard, INRA

Near-infrared spectrometer on the Xylomic technical platform:wood samples waiting to be analysed to determine their compounds.

A. Girard, INRA


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71, avenue Edouard BourlauxCS 2003233882 Villenave-dOrnon Cedex - France

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BORDEAUXAQUITAINE CENTRE:KEY FIGURES

Research and support units

21units including 7 joint units and 5 experimental platforms517full-time employees (233 women and 284 men)116contract employees (63 women and 53 men)

193full-time employees from partner organisations workingin our Centres units

Resources

A budget of52 million Euros, including 13 million of ownresources

21 infrastructures: 4 platforms; 3 technical platforms; 5experimental facilities; 5 joint monitoring schemes (Soere, ORE);3 genetic resources centres (CRG); 1 tomato/peach/strawberryTILLING collection.

Results

250current partnership agreements,including 17with Europe7patents and 10licences280publications per year in peer-reviewed journals

Tel. : +33 (0)5 57 12 23 [email protected] @Inra_BdxAqui

INRA:AN OVERVIEWINRA is the largest agricultural research institute in Europe, with 8,417 researchers, engineers, and technicians, and is the second-largest producer of agricultural science publications. INRA contributes to development of knowledge and innovation in the fields of food,agriculture, and the environment.INRA carries out its work across 13 scientific divisionsthrough a research network that is unique in Europe, with more than200 researchunits and experimental units located in 17 research centres throughout France. Its aim is to contribute internationally to the

development of healthy, high-quality food, competitive and sustainable agriculture, and a protected and valued environment.

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