The program relies on interactive classes and hands-on activities.
Sessions
Plant Health :
- Plant pathology : new technologies for disease diagnostic and pathogen detection
- Phenotyping of plant diseases
- Chemical ecology of insect crop pests
- Plant resistance inducers (elicitors) in crop protection
- Parasitic plants
- Seed-borne pathogens : pathogenicity determinants and microbial communities
Plant Quality :
- Fruit post harvest quality
- Architecture characterization of ornamental plant
- Plant breeding and varietal resistance
- Physiological quality of seeds
- Phenotyping for seed germination
Studying in Angers and preparing a PhD thesis in France :
- Presentation of the Plant Science campus
- Roundtable with PhD students
Hands-on activities
- Droplet digital PCR applied to plant health and quality
- e-phytia, web applications and mobile tools specialized in Plant Health
- Bioinformatic with Galaxy for Dummies
- Analytical and sensory methods to assess fruit quality
- Quantitative trait Loci
- Aphid olfactory choice experiments
- Electrophysiological recordings of insect antennae
- qPCR - a methodology to quantify defense gene expression in plant
- Characterization of parasitic plant- host plant relationship
- Plant photosynthetic activity
- Architectural analysis of plant by 3D digitization
- Phenotyping -Image analysis and study of germination
- Phenotyping - Quantification of disease severity using image analysis
Scientific visits
- SNES GEVES (Variety and Seed Study and Control Group)
- LSV-ANSES (Plant Health Laboratory)
- CIRM-CFBP (French Collection of Plant associated Bacteria)
- PHENOTIC (instrumentation for high throughput plant phenotyping)
- ITEIPMAI (French research institute for perfume, medicinal and aromatic plants)
- Roses Loubert (national collection, old rose garden)
- VILMORIN (Seed company)
- Tropical greenhouse of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris