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Phone +33 (0) 61 28 53 24
Key words
molecular biology, reverse genetics, cell microscopy and imaging, Medicago , rhizobia, transcription factors, cell communication and signaling
Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel
DR2 Research Director CNRS
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Plant-microorganism interactions, root symbioses.
TRAINING
TRAINING
2008: HDR, University Toulouse 3, Paul Sabatier.
1994: Doctorate in plant biotechnology at the University of Ghent (Belgium).
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Actual status
Research director 2nd class DR2-CNRS at LIPME, Toulouse.
Team leader at LIPME, Toulouse.
Before:
2002: Promotion to the grade of Researcher CR1 CNRS, at LIPME, Toulouse.
1998: Recruited as a CNRS-CR2 researcher at LIPME, Toulouse.
1995-1998: Post-doctoral fellow at LIPME (funding: EMBO, EC, INRAE)
RECENT FUNDING
Live-Switch PRCI-ANR (2020-2023); CREPE-SPE-INRAE (2020-2022); FRAIB-AO-INTERUNITE-CROSS (2019-2022).
COLLABORATIONS
A. Becker (SYNMIKRO, Marburg, Germany); E. Larrainzar (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain); M. Marín (LMU, Munich, Germany); Peter Kaló (NAIK, Gödöllő, Hungary); F. Cartieaux, V. Hocher & S. Svistoonoff (LSTM, Montpellier); P. Frendo & E. Boncompagni (ISA, Sophia-Antipolis); R. Peyraud (iMEAN, Toulouse); N. Frei-Dit-Frey, PM. Delaux & E. Jamet (LRSV, Toulouse).
TEACHING
-Master International LABEX-TULIP (upcoming course), Master ADAM-Toulouse (tutorials), doctoral courses (La Plata Argentina, 2017).
- Supervision of Post-docs / PhD students and Masters.
COMMITTEE MEMBER
-Appointed member of the Scientific Council of the SPE-INRAE department.
-Member of the coordination committees of the national networks INRAE SYMBIPHYT (since 2021) and SYMBIFIX (2018-2020).
-Appointed member of the Scientific Council of LABEX − TULIP and scientific co-manager of the flagship project of LABEX − TULIP "Recognition and Signaling Symbiotic Reprogramming"
- Member of the recruitment committee of INRAE-BAP CRCN researchers, BAP-CRCN competition (2020).
- Member of the recruitment juries for professors or Lecturers (Nice, Montpellier, Toulouse).
- External evaluator for professor and group leader positions (UK, Denmark).
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
-Review of manuscripts (Nature Plants, Nature Comm, Plant Cell, New Phytol…) and projects (DFG, NSF…).
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 53 27
Key words
Symbiotic nodule development, transcription factors, non-coding RNAs, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of nodulation
Andreas Niebel
DR2 Research director CNRS
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
We are working on the genetic and epigenetic control of the development of symbiotic nodules in Medicago truncatula .
TRAINING
Andreas obtained his doctorate at Ghent University in 1994 in the laboratory of Marc van Montagu, studying giant feeder cells induced in plant roots by endoparasitic nematodes. As a post-doctoral fellow at EMBO, he then worked on the symbiotic legume- Rhizobium interaction at LIPM where he was then recruited as a researcher by the CNRS.
RECENT FUNDING
ANR PIOSYM (2020-2024); CNRS-LIA (International associated laboratory) France-Argentina NOCOSYM (2018-2021). MYCONODISLAND (FRAIB; 2021-2022).
COLLABORATIONS
International: F. Ariel (Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (IAL), Santa Fe, Argentina); F. Blanco & E. Zanetti (Instituto de biotechnologia y biologia molecular (IBBM), La Plata, Argentina); E. Larrainzar (Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Spain; K. Szczyglowski (University of Western Ontario, Canada); Senjuti Sinharoy (National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India). National: M. Benhamed, M. Crespi, F. Frugier (IPS2, Paris-Saclay);
TEACHING
3-6H / year in Master
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
I review manuscripts for Plant Cell, Plant physiology, Plos Genetics, Nature plants, Trends in Plant Sciences and New Phytologist.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
EXTERNAL LINKS
Twitter: @andreas_niebel
HOBBY
Cycling, running, swimming, triathlon, mountain hiking

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 50 51
Key words
Symbiosis Legume- Rhizobium , Medicago truncatula , Sinorhizobium meliloti , electron microscopy
Marie-Christine Auriac
IE CNRS
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Biotic interactions of plants with symbionts and pathogens, studied by cytology and microscopy approaches
TRAINING
PhD in plant biology and physiology - Training in light and electron microscopy
COLLABORATIONS
- Mireille Chabaud (LIPME, SPI team), on the Sunflower / Orobanche interaction
- Jean-Marc Routaboul (LIPME, SIX team), on the visualization of Brassicaceae hydathodes.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
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Matthias Benoit
CRCN INRAE
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Epigenetic regulation of plant-microbe symbioses: We study the role of epigenetic modifications and regulators in the establishment of symbioses between plants and microorganisms. In particular, we explore the molecular mechanisms by which long non-coding RNAs participate in the remodeling of transcription and chromatin structure during the development of the nodule, a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing organ produced by the symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia bacteria. For this, we combine approaches of molecular biology, genetics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and microscopy.
Phone +33 (0) 61 28 50 51
TRAINING
Key words
Epigenetics, genomics, chromatin, gene expression, non-coding RNAs, transposable elements, symbioses, Medicago , rhizobia
Matthias Benoit obtained his PhD in Physiology and Molecular Genetics in the Genetics, Reproduction and Development laboratory (GReD, Clermont-Ferrand, France), supervised by Dr. Aline V. Probst. His work has demonstrated the importance of histone variants in the organization of chromatin during developmental transitions in plants, in particular during the early development of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. He then joined The Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU, Cambridge, UK) and the team of Jurek Paszkowski to study the epigenetic and environmental mechanisms involved in the control of transposable elements in cultivated plants. Matthias completed his training by joining the team of Zach Lippman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA) to conduct work on the importance of epigenetic and structural variation during the domestication and evolutionary history of the tomato.
COLLABORATIONS
- Marco Catoni (University of Birmingham, UK);
- Hajk-Georg Drost (Max Planck Institute for Biology Tubingen, Germany);
- Frédéric Pontvianne (LGDP Perpignan, France);
- Sébastien Carrère (LIPME, Toulouse, France).
COLLABORATIONS
Assistant Features Editor for The Plant Cell (2020-2021).
Plantae Fellow (2017-2019)
Reviewer for PLOS Genetics, The Plant Cell, Journal of Experimental Botany, New Phytologist, BMC Biology, BMC Genomics, among others.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
https://scholar.google.com/quotes?user=PmUvSH4AAAAJ&hl=en
EXTERNAL LINKS
Twitter: @Matt_Ben_
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthias-Benoit

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 53 27
Key words
NF-YA1, pioneer transcription factor , chromatin modifier, Proximity labeling
Thi Thu Dang
Post-doctoral fellow
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
I am working on the pioneer transcription factor NF-YA1 in symbiotic nodules
TRAINING
Thi Thu Dang did her PhD in the lab of Plant Molecular Genetics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST, Japan), 2009-2013. Her PhD project was to characterize the Constitutively Active OsRac1 (CA-OsRac1), a master regulator in rice immunity, generated by homologous recombination. From 2015-2017, she then did her first postdoc in the lab of Plant Immunity Signaling, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, China. There, she continued to study the down-stream regulator of OsRac1, called OsGAPC3, which plays an important role in NO-pathway and histone modification. From 2017 to 2020, she joined the Conserto team, INRAE, Angers for her second postdoc. The project focused on the identification of the protein network regulating ABI4, a transcription factor controlling seed chlorophyll content and longevity. Since October 2020, Thu joined the ENOD group to work on the “PIOSYM” ANR project aiming to evaluate the importance of NF-YA1 as a pioneer transcription factor regulating the formation of symbiotic nodules in Medicago.
RECENT FUNDING
ANR PIOSYM (2020-2023)
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
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Thu Thi Dang, Zenpei Shimatani, Yoji Kawano, Rie Terada, Ko Shimamoto. Gene editing a constitutively active OsRac1 by homologous recombination-based gene targeting induces immune responses in rice. Plant and Cell Physiology, Volume 54, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages 2058–2070
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Julia Zinsmeister, Souha Berriri, Denise Puntel Basso, Benoit Ly-Vu, Thi-Thu Dang, David Lalanne, Edvaldo Aparecido Amaral da Silva, Olivier Leprince, Julia Buitink. The seed-specific heat shock factor A9 regulates the depth of dormancy in Medicago truncatula seeds via ABA signaling. Plant Cell Environ. 2020;1–15.
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Akira Akamatsu, Masayuki Fujiwara, Satoshi Hamada, Megumi Wakabayashi, Ai Yao, Qiong Wang, Ken-ichi Kosami, Thu Thi Dang, Takako Kaneko-Kawano, Ko Shimamoto, Yoji Kawano. The Small GTPase OsRac1 forms two distinct immune receptor complexes containing the PRR OsCERK1 and the NLR Pit. July 2020. Plant and Cell Physiology. DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.01.183301
EXTERNAL LINKS
HOBBY
Photography, Calligraphy

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 50 51
Anaïs Delers
PhD student
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Study of the role of plant cell polarity proteins in legume-rhizobia symbioses
TRAINING
Master of Plant Biology ADAM (Adaptations, development, plant breeding, in association with microorganisms) at the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (2020-2022)
Key words
Legumes, symbiosis, rhizobia, cell polarity

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 53 24
Key words
Symbiosis Rhizobium - Legumes, infection threads, in vivo confocal microscopy, Medicago truncatula , Sinorhizobium meliloti , endosymbioses, cell biology
Joëlle Fournier
CRHC CNRS
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Cellular mechanisms of rhizobial colonization of legumes
TRAINING
PhD from the University of Toulouse in Plant Physiology (1989)
RECENT FUNDING
Live-Switch PRCI-ANR (2020-2023); CREPE-SPE-INRAE (2020-2022)
COLLABORATIONS
A. Becker (SYNMIKRO, Marburg, Germany); M. Marín (LMU, Munich, Germany); F. Cartieaux, V. Hocher & S. Svistoonoff (LSTM, Montpellier); R. Peyraud (iMEAN, Toulouse).
EDUCATION
Contribution to the ADAM Master 2 (Adaptation, Development and Improvement of Plants in the Presence of Microorganisms) of the University of Toulouse III
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 53 24
Key words
Symbiosis Legume- Rhizobium , molecular biology, cloning, plant cultivation, plant transformation
Lisa Frances
TREX INRAE
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Legume- Rhizobium symbiosis . I participate in the research activities of the team in the theme "regulation and dynamics of rhizobial infection"
TRAINING
DUT in Biological Engineering (Agronomy) in 1999, then University Diploma in Plant Biotechnology (2000), University of Perpignan
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 50 51
Key words
endosymbioses, legumes, root nodule development, genomics, epigenetics, regulation of gene expression
Pascal Gamas
DR1 CNRS
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
transcriptional and epigenetic regulations during root nodule symbiosis; late stages of nodule development; symbiotic transcription factors; sequence and functional organization of Medicago truncatula genome; long non-coding RNAs; Cytokinin signaling during nodulation; M. truncatula expression and knowledge databases
TRAINING
PhD in Microbiology (University of Toulouse, France; Michael Chandler's lab; bacterial transposons); postdoc at UCSF (San Francisco, USA; Nancy Craig's lab; bacterial transposons)
RECENT FUNDING
ANR EPISYM (2016-2020); INRA-SPE (EFFOR, 2019-2020)
COLLABORATIONS
Jérôme Gouzy and Sébastien Carrère (LIPME), Martin Crespi, Florian Frugier and Moussa Benhamed (IPS2, Paris-Saclay), Jeremy Murray (John Innes Center, Norwich, UK / Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, CAS, Shanghai, China)
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
EXTERNAL LINKS

Phone +33 (0) 561 28 53 24
Ambre Guillory
Post-doctoral fellow
ENOD team
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, cell biology, in vivo confocal microscopy
TRAINING
Key words
Endosymbiosis, Cell Biology, Medicago truncatula / Sinorhizobium meliloti interaction model, Confocal microscopy in vivo, Infection process
Bachelor in cell biology and physiology (Paris VII, 2015),
Master in plant sciences (Paris VII, 2017),
PhD in plant biology (Paris Saclay, 2020)
COLLABORATIONS
Macarena Marín, LMU, Institute of Genetics, Munich
Anke Becker, UMR, SYNMIKRO and Faculty of Biology, Marburg
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5836-4582
- Guillory A, Bonhomme S. Methods for Medium-Scale Study of Biological Effects of Strigolactone-Like Molecules on the Moss Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens. Methods Mol Biol. 2021; 2309: 143-155. doi: 10.1007 / 978-1-0716-1429-7_12. PMID: 34028685.
- Lopez-Obando M, Guillory A et al. The Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens PpKAI2L receptors for strigolactones and related compounds highlight MAX2 dependent and independent pathways, bioRxiv 2020.11.24.395954; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.24.395954

Phone +33 (0) 561 28 50 51
Marie-Françoise Jardinaud
MCF ENSAT-INPT
ENOD
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
Transcriptional study of the differentiation of nodules during the Medicago truncatula - Rhizobium interaction
TRAINING
PhD in cell biology, Biotechnology and Plant Breeding Laboratory, ENSAT-INPT, Toulouse, France
EDUCATION
Key words
Rhizobium - Medicago truncatula symbiosis, nodule organogenesis, transcriptomics, biostatistics
Biostatistics (ENSAT-INP), Plant physiology - classification - Evolution (La Prépa des INP, INPT)
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Phone +33 (0) 61 28 53 27
Key words
Development of symbiotic nodules, transcription factors, non-coding RNAs, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of odulation, microscopy, cytology techniques, Technovit
Agnes Lepage
AI CNRS
ENOD
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
I participate in the work on the genetic and epigenetic control of the development of symbiotic nodules in Medicago truncatula , within the framework of projects led by Andreas Niebel (PIOSYM, NOCOSYM, MYCONODISLAND)
TRAINING
Training
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

Phone +33(0)61 28 55 08
Key words
Legume-Rhizobium symbiosis, plant physiology, water deficit, source-sink relationships.
Maria-Isabel Rubia-Galiano
Post-doctoral fellow
ENOD
RESEARCH SUBJECTS
During my thesis, I studied the regulation of symbiotic nitrogen fixation under different abiotic stresses in the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis. During my postdoc with the ENOD team, I study the plant-cell wall interface during colonization by rhizobia.
TRAINING
PhD in Environmental Agrobiology (Public University of Navarre, 2020)
RECENT FUNDING
Margarita Salas scholarship (Scholarships for the requalification of the Spanish university system). Funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION