Research at the Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Centre
The new INRAE institute features one of its largest operations in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with some 1,400 staff in total in 41 separate units. It is organised into 2 research centres, Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The 500 staff members in the Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes centre work in 21 research units, 10 of which are mixed research units with INRAE as joint supervisor, plus one research support unit and 7 collective types of infrastructure (experimental halls, technical platforms and facilities). These are spread across a large part of the Rhône-Alpes area in 9 separate regional geographic locations. The centre is active in a very wide range of fields: water and associated ecotechnologies, natural, health and environmental risks, territories and socio-ecosystems, integrative biology of plants and their adaptation to their environment, and human nutrition and how it is linked to health. As a result, the centre’s research units contribute to the activities of 10 of the Institute’s 14 scientific departments.
Our research areas
In order to ensure regional consistency, the 2 regional centres work within a common scientific framework, which sets out the range of research offered by INRAE in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
6 priority research areas
- water, watersheds, aquatic ecology and associated ecotechnologies;
- natural, health and environmental risks;
- territories and socio-ecosystems: qualifications, trajectories and support;
- integrative biology of model and cultivated plants and adaptation to their environment;
- human nutrition, dietary complexity and health;
- agroecology of grassland farming systems, product quality and animal health.
Our Research Units
- BF2I - Biologie Fonctionnelle, Insectes et Interactions (UMR) - INRAE / INSA
- CARMEN - Cardiovasculaire, Métabolisme, Diabétologie et Nutrition (UMR) - INRAE / INSERM / UCBL
- CARRTEL - Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques des Écosystèmes Limniques (UMR) - INRAE / USMB
- CASPER - Caractérisation et Suivi des Phénomènes d’Évolution de Résistance aux pesticides (USC) - ANSES
- CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (UMS) - INRAE / CNRS / Inria / UdL
- EPIA - Épidémiologie des maladies animales et zoonotiques (UMR) - INRAE / VetAgro Sup
- GAEL - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble (UMR) - INRAE / CNRS / Grenoble INP / UGA
- IGE - Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement de Grenoble (UMR) - INRAE / CNRS / Grenoble INP / IRD / UGA
- IGFL - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (USC) - CNRS / ENS / UCBL
- IVPC - Infections Virales et Pathologie Comparée (UMR) - INRAE / EPHE / UCBL
- LEHNA - Laboratoire d’Écologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés (USC) - Université Lyon 1 / CNRS
- LEM - Écologie Microbienne Lyon (UMR) - INRAE / CNRS / UCBL / VetAgroSup
- LESSEM - Laboratoire des ÉcoSystèmes et Sociétés En Montagne (UPR) - INRAE
- LPCV - Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire & Végétale (UMR) - INRAE / CEA / CNRS / UGA
- OSUG - Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (UMS) - CNRS / IRD / Météo France / UGA
- PAVAL - Pathogénèse et Vaccinations Lentivirales (USC) - UGA
- RDP - Reproduction et Développement des Plantes (UMR) - INRAE / CNRS / ENS / Inria / UCBL
- REVERSAAL - Réduire, réutiliser, valoriser les ressources des eaux résiduaires (UPR) - INRAE
- RiverLy - Fonctionnement des hydrosystèmes (UPR) - INRAE
- RS2GP - Rongeurs Sauvages, Risques Sanitaires et Gestion des Populations (USC) - VetAgro Sup
- SBRI - Cellule Souche et Cerveau (USC) - INSERM / UCBL