Institute of Plant Sciences of Paris-Saclay

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Université Paris-Saclay – Faculté des Sciences

CNRS

INRAE

Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne

Université Paris Cité

 

UFR de rattachement > UFR Sciences du Vivant

 

General overview

Research at the Institute of Plant Sciences of Paris-Saclay (IPS2) focuses on the molecular and genetic mechanisms controlling plant growth and their regulation by endogenous and exogenous signals of biotic and abiotic origins. Analysis of these mechanisms is conducted in an integrated manner at cellular, organ and whole plant levels. IPS2 applies multidisciplinary approaches (combining genomics, molecular and cellular biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, genetics, physiology) and also develop tools (including bioinformatics and modelling) required to provide more predictive knowledge and facilitate « translational » research between model species and crops.

 

Research topics

IPS2 is structured in three scientific departments:

  • The Developmental Genetics and Genomics Department (DGG, teams 1 to 4) is mainly interested in the development of roots and flowers and how these processes are regulated by hormones, peptides, small RNAs as well as chromatin status and transcription factors. In order for the research to have a societal impact, the department’s work also addresses the challenge of transferring discoveries from model plant species to crops (translational biology).
  • The Physiology and Signaling Department (DPHYS, teams 5 to 7) aims to acquire a fundamental knowledge of the mechanisms by which plants adapt to changes in their environment and nutritional resources. The three teams of the department work on complementary topics organized around common interests such as photosynthesis and photorespiration, hormonal signalling related to stresses and signalling modules controlling the nutritional status of the plant as well as the carbon-nitrogen balance.
  • The Plant Microbe Interactions and Networks department (PMIN, teams 8 to 11) studies plants in their biotic environment in order to better understand their interactions with this environment from the plant level to the genome, with the aim of transposing this knowledge to field conditions. One of the department’s strengths is to combine high-throughput, genetic and functional analyses that enable the correlation of gene and protein networks with biological interactions.

 

Research teams

  • Equipe 1 REGARN (Group Leader: Martin Crespi) : Regulatory non-coding RNAs in root plasticity
  • Equipe 2 ChromD (Group Leader: Moussa Benhamed) : Cell Cycle Chromatin and Development 
  • Equipe 3 SILEG (Group Leader: Florian Frugier) : Signaling pathways controlling legume root system development 
  • Equipe 4 FLOCAD (Group Leader: Abdelhafid Bendahmane) : Flower and Carpel Development
  • Equipe 5 CCARS (Group Leader: Graham Noctor) : Climate Change & Redox Signaling
  • Equipe 6 STRESS (Group Leader: Jean Colcombet) : Stress signaling
  • Equipe 7 MetaboActions (Group Leader: Michael Hodges) : Signaling, regulation and metabolic interactions
  • Equipe 8 SYMUNITY (Group Leader: Pascal Ratet) : Symbiosis et Immunity
  • Equipe 9 GDYNPATH (Group Leader: Valérie Geffroy) : Genome dynamics and pathogen resistance
  • Equipe 10 OGE (Group Leader: Etienne Delannoy) : Organellar gene expression
  • Equipe 11 Gnet (Group Leader: Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette) : Genomics Networks

 

Contacts

Director: Martin Crespi martin.crespi@ips2.universite-paris-saclay.fr

Website: http://ips2.u-psud.fr/en/index.html