Poster of the ImaBio workshop in Angers (19-20 Mach 2026) on the left and microscopy image of a stomata on the right
The #FDFE team (Lina Boutaleb, Norbert Bollier) and Lysiane Brocard (PIV) joined the IMABIO workshop (March 19–20). Discussions focused on imaging strategies for environmental stress, including confocal microscopy 🌱🔬
#PlantScience #Microscopy #PlantImaging
🔗 plantes.microscopie.org/index.php
Picture of FDFE's team flow cytometer... all clean and well organized!
It's this time of year! 👩🔬🧴🧹
Spring cleaning for our CyFlow Space flow cytometer: labeled boxes with new filters and updated instructions.
Ready for more samples! 🤓
#FDFE #ScienceNow
Pictures from the PhD defense of Loé Malgouyre at INRAE Bordeaux. Top left pictures show Loé standing in front of her supervisor Michel Hernould and the jury members. Top right picture is a portrait of Loé Malgouyre smiling. Bottom picture is Loé presenting her last acknowledgement slide at the end of her presentation.
🎉 Congratulations to Loé Malgouyre on successfully defending her CIFRE PhD on Feb 20th!
🔬Her research explored the effects of Leafamine®, an animal protein-derived biostimulant, on tomatoes under heat stress. Supported by BCF Life Sciences & #FDFE teams.
Bravo, Loé! 👏👩🎓
Visit of the trial by the FDFE team's strawberry group at Invenio in Douville (24).
The #FDFE team is happy to kick off the CIFRE PhD thesis of Louise Dewost, which focuses:
1) on the study of chilling requirements and their influence on yield dynamics
2) on a genomic selection program for everbearing strawberry
🍓🧬🧪🔬🌱👩🔬
The 4 new interns of the FDFE team: Alexandre Demars, Flavie Perrin, Arthur Brudieux and Louise Dewost are standing in front of a world map in the BFP lab.
🎉🧑🔬 L’équipe #FDFE est ravie de vous présenter ses quatre nouvelles recrues !
De gauche à droite: Alexandre Demars, Flavie Perrin, Arthur Brudieux et Louise Dewost ! Les trois premiers sont en stage de Master 2 et Louise nous a rejoint pour un CDD en partenariat avec Invenio.
Bienvenue à tous les 4!
The left panel shows the leaves of wild-type tomato plants and those of fwl5 mutants that are smaller. On the right panel, microscopic images of the leaves show that cell expansion is reduced in fwl5 mutant leaves compared to wild-type leaves.
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Chez la 🍅, FW2.2 régule la communication cellulaire aux plasmodesmes et la croissance du fruit via les divisions cellulaires. L'équipe #FDFE a montré que FWL5, protéine homologue aussi localisée aux plasmodesmes, régule la taille des feuilles via l'expansion cellulaire.
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
The Poucet from the FDFE team is standing on the podium at the Biostimulants World Congress 2025 to present his work on natural variations to biostimulant response in Arabidopsis thaliana
Last week, members of the #FDFE team joined the #BiostimulantsWorldCongress 2025 in Barcelona 🇪🇸
@theopoucet.bsky.social presented his work on natural variations to biostimulant response
🧬 Our colleague @theopoucet.bsky.social #FDFE co-authored this work on yeast engineering for plant molecules production, led at UCSD by Shanhui Xu and supervised by Yanran Li
👏
"Enhancing cross-organelle coordination to advance plant cytochrome P450 functionality in yeast."
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Upper panel: colleagues from INRAE BFP enjoying a drink together Middle left: a picture of the automated phenotyping facility at Institut Agro Angers Middle right: a picture of the fields at Institut Agro Angers Bottom: Our colleague Benedicte Wenden animats a brainstorming session. She's standing in front of a white board full of post-it notes.
Members of the #FDFE 🍓 team joined the #Pradam group at Institut Agro Angers for the INRAE BAP department's Fruit Days.
The program included project presentations, a tour of the experimental facilities, and workshops on digital phenotyping, multiomics, climate change, and prebreeding.
Photo portrait de Sandra Pujol
Bienvenue à 👩🔬 Sandra Pujol qui rejoint l’équipe #FDFE en tant que technicienne de phénotypage @inrae-france.bsky.social, au service des projets portant sur la fraise 🍓 et la tomate 🍅.
Nous te souhaitons la bienvenue et beaucoup de réussite dans tes projets au sein de l’équipe ! 🌿🔬🎉
Bienvenue à 🧑🔬 @arthurbct-crn.bsky.social qui rejoint l'équipe #FDFE pour un post-doctorat consacré à l’identification des interactants de GBP1 impliqués dans le processus d’endoreduplication chez la tomate. 🍅
Nous te souhaitons plein de réussite dans la conduite de tes projets! 🧪🌱🎉
7 members of the FDFE team stand in front of the posters at the SolRub 2025 meeting.
Several members of the #FDFE team participate in the #SolRub2025 meeting in Torino, Italy this week. 3 talks and 3 posters presented. Stimulating meeting gathering specialists of the Solanaceae and Rubiaceae communities.
Juliette Bénéjam présente son travail à l'occasion de l'assemblée générale 2025 du GPR Bordeaux Plant Sciences.
🎉 Félicitations à Juliette Bénéjam de l'équipe #FDFE pour le financement de son projet PlastiFra via le GPR "Tremplin nouveaux entrants"!
Son projet vise à explorer des indicateurs de la plasticité phénotypique du fraisier cultivé soumis à un stress thermique.
🍓🌡️🌱☀️
A black box with a camera on top is shown. The front panel is open and inside the box strawberries of different colors are arranged on a black board, along with a color scale to normalize the pictures.
Phénotypage de la qualité de la 🍓 par analyse d'image 💻.
Etape 1 : des membres de l'équipe #FDFE ont pris les photos en studio chez notre partenaire INVENIO, avec des palettes de couleurs pour normaliser les 📷
Our colleague Aurelie Petit is standing (and smiling) next to her poster on "Genome-Wide Association Study for fruit quality on a European-centered strawberry diversity panel" at the 12th Rosaceae Genomics Conference
Last week, members of 2 BFP teams ( #FDFE and #PrADAm ) participated in the 12th Rosaceae Genomics 🧬 Congress in Costa Brava 🇪🇸.
Talks and posters on 🍓🍒🍑
200+ researchers meeting to advance science together! 👏
#RGC12 #Genomics #Research
Group picture of the FDFE team. All members are standing on a stairway to fit everyone. There are 32 team members on the picture.
📸 Here is the new group pic from the #FDFE team!
Taken during our team building day 2025 @capsciences.bsky.social
A great day of warmth, sharing and good vibes 🍃🤝
It strengthened team spirit and helped colleagues, new and old, get to know each other better✨
#FDFE #INRAE #Bordeaux
The 3 master 1 students of the FDFE team: Ladislas Jug, Romain Burnereau et Alexandre Demars wearing their labcoats in a lab.
L'équipe #FDFE a le plaisir d'accueillir 3 nouveaux stagiaires de Master 1 ! 👨🔬
De gauche à droite, nous vous présentons: Ladislas Jug, Romain Burnereau et Alexandre Demars 👨🎓
Leurs projets s'inscrivent dans les thématiques principales de l'équipe: le développement du fruit et le devenir du méristème.
Members of the FDFE team stand in front of a sign of the BreedingValue EU project
Last week members of the #FDFE team participated to the workshop "Advancing Berry Breeding: From Phenotyping to Genomic Innovation" (part of EU #BreedingValue project) dedicated to berry genetic resources and their use in genomic approaches (GWAS, MAS, GS).
Very fruitful discussions! 🍓🤓
Four members of the FDFE team are smiling at the camera. They are standing in an INVENIO greenhouse, in front of strawberry plants that are part of the large scale experiment that was set up between INVENIO and the BFP INRAE lab.
Des membres de l'équipe #FDFE ont mis en place un essai 🍓 à grande échelle chez notre partenaire INVENIO pour étudier la qualité du fruit et développer des outils moléculaires d'aide à la sélection.
#SelectionGenomique #SAM
Strawberry seedlings that have been transformed using CRISPR-Cas9 to target genes involved in the balance between flowering and runnering
🤓 In order to study the balance between flowering and runnering in strawberry 🍓, the #FDFE team is using CRISPR-Cas9 ✂️🧬 in the Hawaï genotype to target genes involved in these processes.
It allows us to unravel the functions of these genes.
Flyer for the workshop on "Advancing Berry Breeding: from phenotyping to genomic innovation", April 2-3rd 2025 in Ancona, Italy The workshop is also accessible online.
In the context of the EU H2020 project #BreedingValue, members of the #FDFE team will join the workshop on innovations in berry 🍓 breeding in Ancona, Italy on April 2-3.
Interested to join us?
Program and registration 👇
breedingvalue.eu/final-projec...
Announcement of the Biostimulants World Congress in Miami
Interested in the effects of #biostimulants?
Théo Poucet and Loé Malgouyre from #FDFE team will present their research results next week at the 6th #BiostimulantsWorldCongress @NewAgIntl in Miami 🏄🌱🔬
Title of their posters in the comments 👇
group picture of participants to the workshop
The Plant Regeneration Transformation and Genome Editing Workshop (PRTGE 2024) takes place @INRAE_BFP in Bordeaux on oct 28-31st.
The #FDFE team and colleagues from GDEC @INRAE_Clermont, RDP and @ijpb_fr host the seminars and practical sessions on wheat, maize 🌽 and tomato 🍅.
microscopy images of CNR proteins transiently expressed in N. benthamiana
During the #ANR project 3C-fruit growth 🍅, we study the localization of CNR (cell number regulator) proteins. Here 2 of these proteins co-localize when expressed transiently in N. benthamiana 🌱🔬.
#FDFE #microscopy
Newcomers in the FDFE team
The #FDFE team is happy to welcome (left to right):
- Helene for her PhD on 🍅 nuclei
- Thomas as a technician for 🍓 phenotyping
- Maimouna for her PhD on 🍅 single cells
- Juliette as a researcher on 🍓 genetics
- Loreen as an engineer on 🍅 genomics
All the best to you all! 🎉
📢 #jobopening Notre équipe #FDFE @inrae-bfp.bsky.social recrute un ingénieur en biologie cellulaire pour travailler sur l'impact du stress thermique 🌡️ sur la tomate 🍅 #Microscopy 🔬
📅 Durée: 1 an
📍Lieu: Villenave d'Ornon (33)
Plus d'info ici 👇
www.u-bordeaux.fr/universite/t...
Loé presenting her latest results as a poster
The 5 PhD students of the #FDFE team (Loé, Kilian, Eline, Emilia and Ulysse) attended the Doctoral Day of the School of Life Sciences in Talence . An enriching opportunity to share the latest advancements in their research and foster collaboration. Here Loé presenting her poster:
📢 #jobopening #plantsci #Bordeaux
Our #FDFE team @inrae-bfp.bsky.social is recruiting an engineer in molecular biology / genomics (2 years contract) to work on the regulation of gene expression during tomato fruit development 🌱🍅🧬🧪
More info here 👇
jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-21925
Développement de la tomate cerise dans la lignée WVA106
📢 #jobopening Notre équipe #FDFE @inrae-bfp.bsky.social recrute un ingénieur en biologie moléculaire (CDD 2 ans) pour travailler sur la régulation de l'expression des gènes chez la tomate en développement 🍅🧬🔬
📍 #INRAE #Bordeaux
Plus d'info ici 👇
jobs.inrae.fr/ot-21892
Margot, Mathilde, Louis, Julie and Suzie, M1 interns in the FDFE team
🌟 Welcome to our new M1 interns 🎓 in the #FDFE team!
Meet Margot, Mathilde, Louis, Julie and Suzie (from left to right) 👋🔬
#FDFEWelcome
