The Labex Europe program of EMBRAPA in Montpellier
Web site of EMBRAPA (in portugues)
Dossier thématique d'Agropolis International - Special issue on partnership"
10 years of Labex Europe in figures
4 countries covered by Labex Europe up to now:
France (Montpellier, Avignon, Dijon),
United Kingdom (Rothamsted Research Station),
Netherland (Wageningen University, Plant Research Institute),
Germany (Jülich Institute)
Numerous publications including more than 60 scientific newspapers in rank A
Visits to about twenty laboratories
6 seminars or workshops in France, Netherlands and United Kingdom
3 coordinators
12 researchers welcomed since its creation, which means 430 researchers per month
3 themes of research:
• management of natural resources
• Food-processing technologies
• “Advanced biology” and molecular interactions plants-microorganisms
Pedro Arcuri
embrapa.labex.europe@agropolis.fr Tél. : +33 (0)4 67 04 37 43
Paula Dias
Agropolis International
dias@agropolis.fr
Tél. : +33 (0)4 67 04 75
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The Labex-Europe program of EMBRAPA celebrated its 10 years of presence in Montpelier
October 15th, 2012: pictures of the opening ceremony
October 16th, 2012: Conference for the general public "Amazonia, the cradle of sustainable agriculture", by Doyle Mc Key (Professor at a University of Montpellier 2 - UMR CEFE (Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology), Member of "Institut Universitaire de France" and Cnrs researcher)
17th October, 2012: Scientific event of the Biological Society of Montpellier organized by the EMBRAPA and Agropolis International in the frame of the Colloquium "France-Brazil 2012: scientific research dedicated to agronomy, biodiversity and health"

10th anniversary of Brazilian "Labex Europe" (EMBRAPA's external laboratory) at Agropolis International Montpellier, France October 15th, 2012
Since 2002, Agropolis International is hosting Embrapa Labex Europe and plays the role of a portal of access and facilitator for Embrapa and its local partners. The LABEX Europe aims to post Senior scientists in ‘cutting-edge’ teams located in France and Europe where they work on the issues they have selected..
More: http://www.agropolis.org/project-management/labex-europe-external-laboratory-embrapa-brazil.php
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Presentation of the series
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Round table hosted by Bernard Hubert
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Tribute to Yves Savidan, IRD Director of Research posted at Agropolis International when Labex-Europe EMBRAPA was set up, by Elisio Contini at the IRD, 1st Coordinator of Labex-Europe and Bernard Hubert, President of Agropolis International
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José Maurio Bustani, Ambassador of Brazil to France |
Margareth Simoes, EMBRAPA Researcher |
Marcel de Raissac, Deputy Director General for Research and Strategy, CIRAD |
Daniel Rearte, Coordinator of LABINTEX Argentina and Elisio Contini, 1st Coordinator of Labex-Europe |
Rober Habib, Delegate for International Affairs, INRA |
Michel de Nucé de Lamothe, former President of Agropolis International |
Mirian Eira, Head of Research and Development department at EMBRAPA and Paul Luu, Director of Agropolis International |
Yves Savidan, IRD Director of Research posted at Agropolis International when Labex-Europe EMBRAPA was set up |
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Bernard Hubert, President of Agropolis International and Pedro Arcuri, Coordinator of Labex Europe - an External Laboratory of EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) |

Scientific event of the Biological Society of Montpellier organized by with the EMBRAPA and Agropolis International.
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"Amazonia, the cradle of sustainable agriculture", by Doyle McKey (Professor at University of Montpellier 2 - UMR CEFE (Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology), Member of "Institut Universitaire de France" and Cnrs researcher)
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Mirian Eira, Head of Research and Development department at EMBRAPA ‘Biological Resources in the Context of the Green Economy, an Emerging Development Paradigm’
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Jean-Christophe Glaszmann, Head of the Joint Research unit UMR AGAP (Genetic Improvement and Adaptation of Tropical and Mediterranean Plants), CIRAD, Montpellier 'Genomic resources, interspecific introgression and trait dissection in Groundnut ' |
Functional services of biodiversity |
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Margareth Simoes, EMBRAPA’s Labex-Europe Program, Visiting researcher at Maison de la Télédétection, Montpellier ’Agricultural Monitoring: A Land Use Land Cover Dynamics Assessment for a Sustainable Agriculture’ |
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Eduardo D. Assad, Head of Climate Change Research Platform at EMBRAPA, Brazil ‘Climate change and Food security in Brazil: Evaluation of vulnerability, adaptability and mitigation’ |
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Anne Duputié, Researcher, UMR CEFE / Montpellier / Researcher, UMR CEFE/Montpellier |
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Antoine Andremont, Professor in microbiology, Faculty of Medicine X Bichat and Hôpital Bichat, Paris « Ecology of bacterial resistance to antibiotics in Trois Sauts (French Guiana) : man-environment model » |
Posters presentation
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Evelyne Forano, Deputy Director of microbiology unit, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand-Theix |
Genomic and integrative approaches to biological systems |
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Sylvie Dequin, INRA Researcher, UMR SPO (Science for oenology), Montpelllier “Genome evolution and adaptation in yeast: example of horizontal gene transfer in wine yeasts ” |
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Olivier Panaud, Professor, Perpignan University «The next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies bring plant genomics into a new era» |
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Yves Prin, CIRAD Researcher, UMR LSTM (Tropical & Mediterranean Symbioses Laboratory) |
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Stéphane Mari, INRA Researcher, UMR BPMP (Biochemistry and Plant Molecular Physiology) "Iron loading in the seed: identification of a new strategy of Fe acquisition at the embryo surface" |
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Diana Fernandez, IRD Researcher, UMR BPB “The advances obtained in deciphering coffee-parasites molecular interactions” |
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Alexandre M. do Amaral, EMBRAPA’s Labex-Europe Program, Visiting researcher at Rothamsted Research, UK |
Scientific and financial partners

Updated on 18.02.13
Pedro Arcuri
arcuri@agropolis.fr
Tél. : +33 (0)4 67 04 34 43
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