Oral presentations by PhD students from the 2025-2026 cohort

These events are very fruitful, enabling enriching and constructive discussions between first-year PhD students, their referee and all the scientists and students at the IJPB. They also take part to the preparation of the PhD students for their future thesis defense.

Here are the 18 thesis topics covering a wide range of themes presented in 3 sessions:

> Optimizing multi-omics integration methods for studying seed biology in Camelina sativa
Nadia Bessoltan, "Bioinformatics and informatics" SC-Info team 
Supervision: Loïc Rajjou and Marie-Laure Martin, IPS2 et MIA Paris-Saclay, Co-supervision:  Massimiliano Corso and Anne Goelzer, MIAT

> Evolution, development and genetics of carpels in Angiosperms
Matteo Caroulle, "Transcription Factors and Architecture" FTA team
Supervision: Patrick Laufs and Florian Jabbour, MADP, MNHN

> Role of microbiota and mycorrhizal fungi in corn performance under low-input agroecological farming conditions
Damien Fuster, "Symbiotic Nitrogen Acquisition in Plant-Microbe Systems" SYNAPS team
Supervision: Benoît Alunni and Eoghan King

> Revealing the relationship between plant cell wall architecture and its function in fruit growth, development, and ripening
Malo Giannantoni, "Physiology of plant cell wall assembly, remodelling, and expansion" phyWALL team
Supervision:  Kalina Haas

> Role of chlorophyll in abiotic stress adaptation and nutrient management in barley
Clara Gilloteau, "Senescence, Autophagy, Nutrient Recycling and Nitrogen Use Efficiency" SATURNE team
Supervision: Fabien Chardon and Anne Marmagne

> Investigating the functionnal connexion between a microtubule associated protein and NLP7 in Arabidopsis thaliana : a cytoskeletal role in nitrate signaling
Clémence Gilouppe Taillefer, "Nitrogen Use, transport and signaling"  NUTS team
Supervision: Zsolt Kelemen and Anne Krapp

> Elucidating the plasticity and functions of decorated specialized metabolites under stress conditions in seeds
Baptiste Guillon, "Seed - Development, Regulation, and Metabolism" SEED-DREAM team
Supervision: Massimiliano Corso

> Impact of a modification of tonoplastic transport of sugars on the response of plants to an increase in atmospheric CO2 atmosphérique
Jonaid Hossain, "Carbon, Allocation, Transport and Signaling" CATS team
Supervision: Rozenn Le Hir

> Identification and functional characterization of tonoplast sugar transporters in Setaria species under elevated CO2 conditions
Eelaf Hussein, "Carbon, Allocation, Transport and Signaling" CATS team
Supervision: Rozenn Le Hir

> Biocatalytic approaches for the synthesis of lignin models and the demethylation of lignins
Laury Kermorgant, "Lignocellulosic Biopolymers: from Cell Wall Assemblies to Synthons for Green Chemistry" APSYNTH team
Supervision: Betty Cottyn

> Deciphering translation termination and ribosome rescue in plant mitochondria
Yushi Li, "Organelles and Reproduction" OrgaRepro team
Supervision: Hakim Mireau 

> Role of brassinosteroids during somatic embryogenesis initiation in Brachypodium distachyon 
Evan Magnat, "Cell Biology and Plant Regeneration" BCR team
Direction: Oumaya bouchabké-Coussa and Pierre Hilson

> Role of the AMF-hyphospheric interaction in maize nitrogen nutrition : an agroecological lever for reducing inputs
Joseph Mangoni Mpay, "Symbiotic Nitrogen Acquisition in Plant-Microbe Systems" SYNAPS team
Supervision: Benoît Alunni and  Alia Dellagi

> New methods for high-throughput and advanced characterization of lignins to harness their structural diversity
Noshin Monisha, "Lignocellulosic Biopolymers: from Cell Wall Assemblies to Synthons for Green Chemistry" APSYNTH team
Supervision: Florian Pion and Patrice Castignolles, IPCM, Sorbonne Université

> Agroecological approaches to nitrogen fertilization: biostimulation with glutamine and soil microorganism dynamics
Corentin Marchand, "Senescence, Autophagy, Nutrient Recycling and Nitrogen Use Efficiency" SATURNE team
Supervision: Fabien Chardon, Anne Marmagne and Céline Masclaux-Daubresse

> Boosting meiotic crossover (CO) frequency in plants
Beatriz Ortega Garcia, "Meiosis Mechanisms" MeioMe team
Supervision: Rajeev Kumar

> Characterization of the transcriptional regulatory network of suberin biosynthesis and its importance in seed resilience to stresses
Marilou Scravaglieri, "Seed - Development, Regulation, and Metabolism" SEED-DREAM team
Supervision: Sébastien Baud

> Deciphering the roles of the CUC genes during root development
Ganesh Venkatesh, "Transcription Factors and Architecture" FTA team
Supervision: Patrick Laufs

update: 16/03/26


Session 1 from left to right:Matteo Caroulle, Clara Gilloteau, Clémence Gilouppe, Marilou Scravaglieri, Yushi Li et Ganesh Venkatesh


Session 2 from left to right: Laury Kermorgant, Joseph Mangoni Mpay, Damien Fuster, Beatriz Ortega Garcia, Malo Giannantoni et Jonaid Hossain


Research developed at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences and in collaboration.