Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

Regional partnership with computer science laboratories in Nantes

Participants : Anne Siegel, Jérémie Bourdon, Damien Eveillard, François Coste, Jacques Nicolas, Vincent Picard.

Methodologies are developed in close collaboration with university of Nantes (LINA) and Ecole centrale Nantes (IRCCyN). This is acted through the Biotempo and Idealg ANR projects and co-development of common software toolboxes within the Renabi-GO platform process. The Ph-D students V. Picard and J. Laniau are also co-supervised with members of the LINA laboratory.

Regional partnership in Marine Biology

Participants : Catherine Belleannée, Jérémie Bourdon, Guillaume Collet, Jean Coquet, François Coste, Damien Eveillard, Olivier Dameron, Clémence Frioux, Clovis Galiez, Jeanne Got, Yann Guitton, Julie Laniau, Jacques Nicolas, Vincent Picard, Camille Trottier, Anne Siegel.

A strong application domain of the Dyliss project is marine Biology. This application domain is co-developed with the station biologique de Roscoff and their three UMR and involves several contracts. The IDEALG consortium is a long term project (10 years, ANR Investissement avenir) aiming at the development of macro-algae biotechnology. Among the research activities, we are particularly interested in the analysis and reconstruction of metabolism and the characterization of key enzymes. Other research contracts concern the modeling of the initiation of sea-urchin translation (former PEPS program Quantoursin, Ligue contre le cancer and ANR Biotempo), the analysis of extremophile archebacteria genomes and their PPI networks (former ANR MODULOME and PhD thesis of P.-F. Pluchon) and the identification of key actors implied in competition for light in the ocean (PELICAN ANR project). In addition, the team participates to a collaboration program with the Biocore and Ange teams, together with Ifremer-Nantes, focused on the understanding on micro-algae (thesis of Julie Laniau).

Regional partnership in agriculture and bio-medical domains

Participants : Aymeric Antoine-Lorquin, Catherine Belleannée, Charles Bettembourg, François Coste, Jean Coquet, Olivier Dameron, Victorien Delannée, Jacques Nicolas, Anne Siegel, Nathalie Théret, Aurélie Evrard.

We have a strong and long term collaboration with biologists of INRA in Rennes : PEGASE and IGEEP units. This partnership is acted by the co-supervision of one post-doctoral student and the co-supervision of several PhD students. The Ph-D thesis of V. Wucher was supported by collaborations with the IGEPP laboratory. The post-doc of Charles Bettembourg strengthens these collaborations. This collaboration is also reinforced by collaboration within ANR contracts (MirNadapt, FatInteger). Lately, Aurélie Evrard joined the team at mid-part of her time in collaboration with Agrocampus Ouest and INRA to apply the semantic web to technologies developed within the mirnAdapt framework to new agriculture applications (Brassicae).

We also have a strong and long term collaboration in the bio-medical domain, namely with the IRSET laboratory at Univ. Rennes 1/Irset, acted by the co-supervised Ph-D theses of V. Delannée (Metagenotox project, funded by Anses) and J. Coquet. This partnership was reinforced in the former years by the ANR contract Biotempo ended at the end of 2014. In 2015, the project of combining semantic web technologies and bi-clustering classification based on formal concept analysis was applied to systems biology within the PEPS CONFOCAL project. This scientific project will be pushed forward in the recent TGFSYSBio project funded by Plan Cancer on the modelling of the microenvironment of TGFbeta signaling network.