Author: Hélène Laloue

Carmen, Lucas and Romain represent the LVBE at the EUCOR 2025 Tour!

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It's a bike tour that takes in the five university towns of Eucor - the European campus. More precisely, they set off from Karlsruhe in Germany to reach Strasbourg, then Mulhouse, Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau and back to Karlsruhe. This 600 to 900 km route, depending on their current wishes and abilities, took place from May 19 to 24, 2025, and is open to all students, alumni and employees of the five universities. Far from being a race for professional cyclists, it's more a meeting of p...
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Lucas GALIMAND, PhD student, represents LVBE at Master EUCOR 2025

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        Our PhD student, Lucas GALIMAND, gave a presentation entitled: “Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, an underground alliance for grapevine stress tolerance” at the EUCOR Master's Symposium in Plant Sciences. This day, dedicated to scientific exchanges between students, young researchers and supervisors from the EUCOR network, was held on May 12, 2025 at the IBMP. On the program: oral presentations and poster sessions led by Master's students, PhD studen...
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Roots of Resilience” project wins 2024 EUCOR Seed Money AAP.

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The Seed Money scheme aims to provide initial financial support for innovative cross-border projects within Eucor - The European Campus. The 2-year project brings together LVBE-UHA (Pr. Julie CHONG and Dr. Loïc YUNG), the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT, Karlsruhe; Pr. P. Nick and Dr. Islam KHATTAB) and the University of Basel (Dr. Pascale FLURY). The aim of this project is to study and understand the effect of the microbiome associated with different rootstocks on the resilience o...
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The XXIX Congress of the Italian Phytopathological Society (SIPaV) september 2024

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entitled "New challenges in Plant Pathology between sustainable crop production and climate change", have been held in Trento from 9th to 11th September 2024. The event  hosted by the Center Agriculture Food Environment (C3A) - University of Trento. The program  started with a talk focusing on climate change and its impact on meteorology. Alessandro PUCA, a PhD student at LVBE, presented a poster entitled : “The tour of the word in eight wood rot species: enzymatic and no...
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A great success for the 2nd sprint, “Hack ta zone! “

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No fewer than 7 LVBE members took part in the event, including our very first second-year trainee! "Hack ta Zone", a Hackathon to design tomorrow's business park while taking into account land sobriety: Zero Net Artificialization (ZAN) In a context of increasing scarcity of planetary resources, land, with its multiple uses (feeding, sheltering, tempering...) represents an essential component. Future developments will have to take account of this inescapable challenge, which has led us to r...
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A day dedicated to PhD students at UHA

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Bravooooooo to Margot !!!!!! Best poster prize (€100) poster title: “Alsatian Bacteria as a Potential Biocontrol Solution against Grapevine Trunk Diseases” ELZ Margot (SE) - LVBE ED222 - Doctorat en Biologie des Organismes - Thesis title: "Étude de l'implantation de bactéries racinaires chez la vigne, interaction vigne-microorganismes phytoprotecteurs"- Thesis supervisor: Marc FISHER On Friday June 14, 2024, the Université de Haute-Alsace held its doctoral day. It brought together the ent...
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French Academy of Agriculture visits Colmar Biopôle

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On May 31, 2024, the French Academy of Agriculture visited the Colmar Biopôle, the I.U.T. Biological Engineering Department and the INRAe Center, on the theme of "Tomorrow's vine and wine". In the presence of : - members of the Académie d'agriculture de France, - members of the Académie d'Alsace, sciences, arts et lettres, - members of the Académies nationales de l'Est (Besançon, Dijon, Metz, Nancy, Reims), - teacher-researchers in the Biological Engineering Department of the Colmar IUT,...
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Meeting between LVBE researchers and the wine industry on April 19, 2024

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Under the impetus of Dr. Loriane MERLEN, the LVBE was pleased to organize a day of exchanges with members of the wine industry on Friday April 19, 2024. We, the LVBE researchers, have been trying to find solutions to the problems associated with grapevine wood diseases since 2009. LVBE researchers and the wine industry met on April 19, 2024. The objectives of this one-day meeting were to : to keep winegrowers and winemakers informed of the progress of research carried out at the lab...
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