Fields of excellence
INRAE researchers are known for their high-quality work and extensive expertise. They have made remarkable discoveries in many different fields, including plant biology, animal biology, animal health, human health, nutrition, and the environmental sciences.
Plant biology
- Plant viruses: Thierry Candresse
- Plant epigenetics: Hervé Vaucheret
- Meiosis, apomixis: Raphaël Mercier
- Rapeseed
- Plant genomes: Abelhafid Bendahmane
- Transposable elements: Florian Maumus
- Plant morphology: Jan Traas and Olivier Hamant
Agroecology
- Disease-resistant grapevines: Resistant vines team
- Database on soils: InfoSol team
- Soil microbial ecology: Laurent Philippot
- Sustainable nutrition of farmed fish: Lucie Marandel
- Soil biodiversity, plant-microorganism interactions: Philippe Lemanceau
- Plant breeding, apple, innovation: François Laurens
- Sustainable farming, participatory research: Guillaume Martin
- Soil, organic matter: Claire Chenu
- Potato farming
- Genomic selection
- Plant-fungi relationships: Francis Martin
- Plant health: Dominique Blancard
Biodiversity
- Aquatic ecotoxicology: Didier Azam
- Forests, biodiversity, Europe: Yoan Paillet
- Maritime pine breeding: Patrick Pastuszka
- Bees, pesticides: Michaël Henry
- Aquatic ecosystems, migratory fish, eel, Europe: Patrick Lambert
- Natural variability of Arabidopsis thaliana: Olivier Loudet
- Plant Genomic Resource Center: Hélène Bergès
Climate change and risks
- Trees, ecophysiology, modelling: Hervé Cochard
- Risk assessment, statistics, fire: Thomas Opitz
- GIEC expertise: Jean-François Soussana
- Plant phenotyping and drought: François Tardieu
- Trees and drought: Sylvain Delzon
- Trees and climate change: Antoine Kremer
- CO2 exchanges: Lisa Wingate
- STICS model: Dominique Ripoche
Water management
- Dams, Colombia: Claudio Carvajal
- Bank restoration, civil and plant engineering, invasive species, North America: André Evette
- Watersheds, stream flows: Charles Perrin
- Mountain streams: Didier Richard
- Extreme events: drought, floods, modelling, France, Peru: Maria-Héléna Ramos
- Participatory water management, southern Mediterranean regions, Africa: Sami Bouarfa
Food, global health
- Behavioral nutrition: Sophie Nicklaus
- Emulsion science: Claire Berton-Carabin
- Modelling the risks and benefits of food: Jeanne-Marie Membré
- Animal welfare team
- Taste, sensorial perception: Charlotte Sinding
- Meat, colorectal cancer: UMR Toxalim
- Nutrition and brain: Sophie Layé
- Nutrition and protein: Daniel Tomé
- Intestinal microbiota: Joël Doré
- Food mycotoxins: Isabelle Oswald
- Toxicology, exposome: Laurent Debauwer
- Intestinal microbiota, antibiotics: Olivier Berteau
- Wheat and food: Joël Abecassis
Bioeconomy
- Biopackaging: Nathalie Gontard
- Methane production
- Biomaterials: Ana Villares
- Wastewater treatment, plant-based techniques, the Maghreb: Pascal Molle
Society and regional strategies
- Partnership contracts: Clara Tremberth
- Open science: Esther Dzalé
- Market economics: Christophe Gouël
- Data processing: Pascal Neveu
- Health of populations in developing countries, tool for evaluating development programmes, European Commission: Catherine Macombe
- Experimental economics applied to food: Anne Lacroix
- Food security, agricultural and food trade: Anne-Célia Disdier