The seminars take place on the Montpellier Institut Agro/INRA Campus of La Gaillarde (2, place P. Viala Montpellier)

Thursday, January 5
at 2pm, Amphi 208

Hélène Pidon

(Team Plasticity)

Hélène’s pre-Lupin research: genetic basis of resistance to viruses in cereals

Before joining the plasticity team to work on lupin genetics and genomics, I worked mostly on the genetic basis of virus resistance in cereals.
Genetic resistance to pathogens is one of the key ways to reduce the use of inputs in agriculture and, in the case of viruses, is sometimes the only way to fight epidemics. With the development of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing, cloning genes became easier and faster. Through my PhD and PostDoc, I performed high-resolution gene mappings, genome-wide association studies, and state-of-the-art mapping-by-sequencing to identify genes responsible for resistance to viruses in rice, barley, and their wild relatives. In addition, allele mining in the natural diversity of the species based on resequencing projects was used to better understand the evolutive mechanisms at play.

contact : Benjamin Péret

Contacts IBIP :

Sabine Zimmermann (sabine.zimmermann@cnrs.fr)

Alexandre Martiniere (alexandre.martiniere@cnrs.fr)

Aude Coupel-Ledru (aude.coupel-ledru@inrae.fr)

Chantal Baracco (chantal.baracco@inrae.fr)