Our Laboratory studies evolutionary processes involved in plant genome plasticity and molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression, particularly in stress situations. To do so, we are using genomic, bioinformatic, theoretical biology, modeling, genetic, biochemical, cell and molecular biology approaches. Our plant models are Arabidopsis and rice.

The LGDP is organized in 7 teams:

• STRESS-INDUCED POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPROGRAMMING OF PLANT GENE EXPRESSION
• TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING AND RNA SILENCING IN PLANTS
• REDOX, DEVELOPMENT AND ADAPTATION TO CONSTRAINTS
• THE NUCLEOLUS AND rRNA GENES
• GENOME ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTION
• EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS AND CHROMATIN ARCHITECTURE
• THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

LGDP has also put in place a transversal axis that aims at collectively construct research projects using natural populations to study plant adaptive molecular processes link to climate changes.

In the 2014-2019 period, LGDP members published 55 original publications with an average impact factor of 8.2 (ISI JCR2017).

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