I am research associate at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), in Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Research at the INRA center in Sophia-Antipolis are focused on plant-health and our unit works on biotic interactions and plant health (IBSV). As part of this IBSV unit, our team, named Plants / Nematodes Interactions (IPN) study more precisely the interactions between plants and root-knot nematodes, the most devastating plant-parasitic nematodes to Agriculture worldwide. Our group, "phylogenomics of plant-parasitic nematodes", used evolutionary and comparative genomics approaches to identify genomic adaptations to plant-parasitism in nematodes. Deciphering genomic singularities in plant-parasitic nematodes is one way to highlight mechanisms and biomolecules used by these pests to establish successful parasitic interactions with plants.
