Lieu de travail: Montbéliard - Bourgogne-Franche-Comté - France

Champ scientifique principal: Agronomie, agroalimentaire

Champs scientifiques secondaires Biologie

Mots clés: agronomical practices , bio-based products, molecular screening , microbial resources

Date limite de candidature: 15/03/2022

Fonction: Recherche et Développement

The "Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté" (UBFC) is a ComUE — a public institution created by the French law of July 22nd, 2013. that has the same legal framework as a University, and whose members are in public Higher Education and Research (HER) Institutions. UBFC was created on the 1st of April 20l5 by the 6 main HER institutions of the "Bourgogne Franche-Comte" (BFC) region (3 universities and 3 engineering/management schools). UBFC has been involved in the European Research Area especially through its members' participation to FP7 and H202O funded projects and transnational collaborations such as the interregional France- Switzerland program (lnterreg). UBFC has taken part in about 34 FP7 and H2020 projects with 21 ongoing H2020 projects, 91 National projects (≈15M€), 5 National PIA projects.

The Chrono-environnement Joint Research Unit (UMR; CNRS/UFC) research activities focus on the dynamics of the relationships between humans and their environment.

The postdoctoral project is part of the ANR /PRIMA (HORIZON) proposal SIRAM (Sustainable Innovations for Regenerative Agriculture in the Mediterranean area) which aims at developing, scaling-up and disseminate innovative regenerative agriculture approaches to tackle issues related to climate change, desertification, loss of biodiversity excessive use of chemical and low incomes in small-holders farms in the Mediterranean. The tested approaches will be in line with the main principles of regenerative agriculture, namely the adoption of no-tillage practices, the use of cover-crops, the screening of local varieties with resistant traits, the synergic application of biostimulant and bioprotecting microbial strains co-formulated with organic fertilizers from recycled wastes.

The specific missions for this post-doctoral position are :

• To study regulation of gene expression and biochemical processes in beneficial microorganisms via RNA-Seq and metabolomic tools
• To study microRNA in plants and microorganisms as a key mechanism of response to biotic and abiotic stresses in an innovative approach
• To analyse the structure of the microbial communities of selected crops exposed to both biotic stresses and microbe-biomass formulates using high-throughput sequencing technologies

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