^ The team in June 2025

• Chloé Delmas - Senior research scientist INRAE (DR2, HDR)

My research focus on how the environment impacts biotic interactions and trait evolution in the context of global changes. I'm currently doing research on the impact of abiotic and biotic factors on grapevine physiology to understand the underlying mechanisms of grapevine decline.

Contact: chloe.delmas at inrae.fr / @cel_delmas

• Nathalie Ferrer (TR INRAE), lab technician 

• Gwenaëlle Comont (IE INRAE), lab engineer

• Sylvie Bastien (IE, BSA), lab engineer

• Samuele Moretti (project XYLOSAFE) - Postdoctoral researcher - Grapevine susceptibility to trunk diseases

• Pierre Gastou, PhD student on grapevine susceptibility to trunk diseases: exploring the underlying mechanisms in a range of cultivars by a physiopathology approach

Main collaborations (outside UMR SAVE)

Gregory Gambetta (EGFV, Bordeaux, France)

Sylvain Delzon (BIOGECO, Bordeaux, France)

Marie Foulongne-Oriol (MycSa, Bordeaux, France)

D. Cantu, M. Bartlett, K. Baumgartner (UC DAVIS & USDA, Davis, USA)

L. Michel, D. Martinetti (BioSP, Avignon, France)

Alumni

2022-2025. Marie Chambard (GPR BPS) - Postdoctoral researcher - The physiology of plant-fungal interactions under drought

2025. Thomas Carayol, Master student,  Étude du rôle de la diversité des agents pathogènes et de la dégradation du bois dans la sensibilité variétale à l’esca chez la vigne.

2025. Gabriel Macé, Master student,  Prédiction de l'évolution de l’incidence de l’esca en France avec le changement climatique.

2025. Yanis Brunet, BUT Contribution à la caractérisation d'un gradient de sensibilité de cépages de vigne à deux agents pathogène vasculaires

2024. Audrey Morin (M2 ENS Chimie Montpellier) Master student - Déterminants anatomiques et biochimiques de la sensibilité variétale de la vigne (Vitis vinifera L.) à la maladie de l’esca.

2021-2024. Ninon Dell'Acqua, PhD student on plant-pathogen interactions and the role of plant transpiration during vascular pathogenesis in grapevine (ESCAPADE & VITIPIN projects). co-supervised with Greg Gambetta.

2022-2024. Lucas Etienne, postdoc (project CLIMESCA) - Modelling the dynamics of esca as a function of abiotic and biotic factors.

2023. Rebecca Guereau (M2, ISVV) Caracterisation du degre de resistance de cepages de vigne a deux agents pathogenes du bois

2023. Ambre Dalle (M1, Université Toulouse) Mise au point expérimentale de l'inoculation de champignons pathogènes du bois sur entre-nœuds détachés de vigne

2023. Mathéo Pinol Daubisse (M1 AgroParisTech) Impact du stress hydrique et de la maladie de l’esca sur la physiologie foliaire de la vigne

2022. Pauline Theodore (M2 University of Bordeaux), Impact of the vascular disease Esca on xylem vessels anatomy of stems and leaves in two grapevine varieties

2022. Mathéo Pinol Daubisse  (L3, University of Bordeaux), Les maladies du bois de la vigne : réponse physiologique et caractérisation des nécroses dans le bois d'une gamme de cépages de vigne

2021-2022. Thibaut Fréjaville, postdoc, (Escapade project) - Short-term relationships between climate and grapevine trunk disease in southern French vineyards.

2021-2022. Jérôme Pouzoulet, postdoc  (Escapade project) - Underlying mechanisms of esca pathogenesis in grapevine 

2021. Eva Courchinoux, master student on the fungal communities of grapevine trunks in the VITADAPT vineyard.

2018-2021. Giovanni Bortolami, PhD student on the physiological response of perennial plants to abiotic and biotic stress (PHYSIOPATH project).

2020. Ninon Dell'Acqua (ENSAIA Nancy), Master student on the role of vessel anatomy in grapevine susceptibility to trunk diseases (PHYSIOPATH project).

2020. Maéva Po (Université Paris Créteil), MASTER student on the impact of climate change on grapevine biotic environment (LACCAVE 2.21 project)

2020. Marie Marchesseau Marchal, undergraduate student (L3, University of Bordeaux) on the impact of leaf senescence on xylem anatomy (PHYSIOPATH project).

2019. Elena Farolfi (Bologna University), MASTER student on the physiological response of perennial plants to abiotic and biotic stress (PHYSIOPATH project).

2016. Marion Michel (Agrocampus Ouest), 6-month project on the impact of drought on plant-pathogen interactions (VIVALDI project).

2016. Claire Francioni (University of Bordeaux), 2-month project on the impact of drought on plant-pathogen interactions (VIVALDI project).

2013. Coline Brame, from the Bordeaux Science Agro school, in her project on grapevine downy mildew evolution with plant resistance.