INUPRAG is a virtual “European Open Laboratory” that is based on a trilateral agreement between the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC, Sweden), the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA, France) and the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG, Spain). The goal is to bring together researchers for joint research projects to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and tools, developed with plant model species like Arabidopsis and Poplar, to crops and trees.
To foster the collaboration, the Kempe Foundations finances six post-doctoral fellowships that were granted to six collaborative projects between UPSC research groups and INRA or CRAG research groups. The objective is to promote the training of young scientists through regular exchanges between the partner laboratories and to enable them to develop their networks. The recruited post-doctoral fellows will be recruited in Sweden but will be seconded during three months to one year in the French or Spanish partner laboratory.
Application deadline: 31 July 2018
Project 1: Interactions between Plastid and Light Signalling Pathways
Project leaders: Åsa Strand (UPSC) & Elena Monte (CRAG)
Project 2: Regulation of the Master Floral Regulator LEAFY by Ubiquitination through the E3 Ligases UFO and BOP2
Project leaders: Markus Schmid (UPSC), Ove Nilsson (UPSC) & François Parcy (INRA, Grenoble)
Project 3: An evo-devo approach to elucidate the role of PIRIN proteins during non-cell autonomous lignification
Project leaders: Hannele Tuominen (UPSC) and Richard Sibout (INRA, Nantes)
Postdoctoral project 4: Unravelling cluster root emergence in white lupin
Project leaders: Stéphanie Robert (UPSC) & Benjamin Péret (INRA, Montpellier)
Project 5: Cell wall mediated control of differential cell elongation in Arabidopsis hook Development
Project leaders: Rishikesh Bhalerao (UPSC) and Olivier Hamant (ENS, INRA, Lyon)
Project 6: Enabling scale-up of somatic embryogenesis (SE) plant production by physiological analysis of embryos processed in bioreactors and the R&D SE System for harvest
Project leaders: Ulrika Egertsdotter (UPSC) and Marie-Anne Lelu-Walter (INRA, Orleans)