Food and Nutrition

Quality and Food Safety

Research for a better food security in a healthier environment.

Expertise

  • Analysis, detection and quantification: protein, lipids, sugars, fiber, vitamins, etc.
  • Digestibility of food components
  • Measurement of the antioxidant capacities
  • Characterization of seed proteins (immunochemistry)
  • Mycotoxin – Food safety

Teams related to this field of application (non-exhaustive list)

Team leader

Research Unit

Team name

Abdelhafid Bendahmane

IPS2

Flower and Carpel Development

Thierry Chardot

IJPB

Dynamics and structure of lipid bodies

Marie Dufresne

IPS2

Functional genomics of cereals-pathogen interactions

Jean-Denis Faure

IJPB

Cell differenciation and polarity

Denis Faure / Peter Mergaert

I2BC

Plant-Bacteria Interactions

Valérie Geffroy

IPS2

Genome Dynamics and Pathogen Infection

Philippe Guerche

IJPB

Lipid-Protein Homeostasis in Seed

Bertrand Hirel

IJPB

Management of nitrogen and crops productivity

Michael Hodges

IPS2

Regulation, Signaling and Metabolic Interactions

Herman Hofte

IJPB

Primary cell wall

Loïc Lepiniec

IJPB

Development and seed quality

Annie Marion-Poll

IJPB

Germination physiology

Céline Masclaux-Daubresse

IJPB

Senescnece, Autophagy, Nutrient recycling and Nitrogen use efficiency

Raphaël Mercier

IJPB

Mechanisms of meiosis

Catherine Rameau

IJPB

Branching control in plants

Pascal Ratet

IPS2

Genetic Control of the symbiosis

Matthieu Reymond

IJPB

Biomass quality and interactions with drought

Richard Sibout

IJPB

Secondary cell wall

Sébastien Thomine

I2BC

Integrated Approches to Ion Transport