IJPB PhD projects 2026

Biology Speciality

> Connecting Chromosomes and the Nuclear Envelope: Mechanisms Shaping Meiotic Prophase Organization
Team: "Meiosis Mechanisms" MeioMe 
Direction: Mathilde Grelon, Co-supervision : Laurence Cromer
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> Strigolactone biosynthesis in the moss Physcomitrium patens
Team: "Strigolactones and Allelochemicals Signaling" SAS
Direction: Sandrine Bonhomme
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> Study of the interactions between LEC2 and PRCs regulations during seed development in Arabidopsis
Team: "Seed - Development, Regulation, and Metabolism" SEED-DREAM
Direction: Loïc Lepiniec. Co-direction: Dao-Xiu Zhou, "Institute of plant Sciences Paris-Saclay" IPS2 
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> Regulation of triglyceride metabolism by the INOSITOL-REQUIRING ENZYME 1 proteins in response to stress in Arabidopsis thaliana
Team: "Germination Physiology" PHYGERM
Direction: Jean-Luc Cacas
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> Deep Graphical Neural Networks for the analysis and the modeling of tissue topology in plants
Team: "Modeling and Digital Imaging" MiN
Direction:  Philippe Andrey. Co-supervision: Jasmine Burguet and Sandrine Lefranc
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> TRANSinit: Genetic and molecular deciphering of translation initiation in plant mitochondria
Team: "Organelles and Reproduction" OrgaRepro
Direction: Hakim Mireau
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Plant Science Speciality

> Functional characterization and diversity of SCPL17-mediated glucosinolate acylation in Brassicaceae seeds
Team: "Seed - Development, Regulation, and Metabolism" SEED-DREAM
Direction: Massimiliano Corso
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> Unraveling the Function of TRM proteins in Protoxylem Vessel Formation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Teams: "Spatial Control of Cell Division" SPACE and "Nitrogen Use, transport and signaling"  NUTS 
Direction: Magalie Uyttewaal. Co-supervision: Anne Krapp
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> Contribution of plant autophagy in nitrogen nutrition during maize - arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Team: "Symbiotic Nitrogen Acquisition in Plant-Microbe Systems" SYNAPS 
Direction: Alia Dellagi. Co-supervision: Kevin Magne
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> Deciphering the mechanisms underlying the crossover increase in Arabidopsis triploids
Team: "Meiosis Mechanisms" MeioMe 
Direction: Adrián Gonzalo Sanchez. Co-direction: Eric Jenczewski
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> Regulation of the MBW complex by heat stress during Arabidopsis seed development and impact on flavonoid metabolism
Team: "Seed - Development, Regulation, and Metabolism" SEED-DREAM
Direction: Isabelle Debeaujon. Co-supervision: Loïc Lepiniec
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> Ecotype-dependent role of the membrane NETwork of Wall-Associated-Kinase-Like receptors in regulating growth-defense trade-offs in Arabidopsis
Team: "Glycans and Signaling" GAS  
Direction:  Samantha Vernhettes. Co-direction: Aline Voxeur
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> Direct Roles of Cellulose and Homogalacturonan Synthesis in Cell Morphogenesis and Differentiation
Team: "Physiology of plant cell wall assembly, remodelling, and expansion" phyWALL
Direction: Alexis Peaucelle
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> Interindividual epigenetic variability and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis
Team: "Epigenetic Natural Variation" VarEpi team 
Direction: Vincent Coustham
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