Interested in plant-insect interactions or plant-virus-vector interactions? Please get in touch with me! (quentin.chesnais@inrae.fr)
I encourage all students and postdoctoral researchers to apply for fellowships to help secure their own funding and enable me to expand the lab even further.
ANR JCJC "PHENOMANI" project got funded. We will explore the molecular mechanisms by which plant viruses manipulate both host and vector.
New positions are opening soon:
Engineer (24 months) on functional validation (late 2026)
Lab members:
Starting in 10/2025: Paul MUSCH-MASSET (MSc.)
Ph.D. student (3 years) on ANR JCJC 'PHENOMANI': Host and vector manipulation by plant viruses.
04/2024 - ongoing: Gabin MARDOC (MSc.)
Engineer on ANR Ecophyto-Maturation project 'AGIR': Investigation on sugar beet resistance to aphid feeding behavior and plant virus transmission using a newly developed video phenotyping tool.
Previous lab members :
03/2025 - 05/2025: Margaux ROMESTANT (Master 1 - Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard)
Master student on ANR Ecophyto-Maturation project 'AGIR': Plant virus infection effect on aphid settling preference using a video phenotyping tool.
10/2020 - 10/2023 : Maxime VERDIER (Ph.D.)
"Manipulation virale, comment les virus de plante influencent hôte et vecteur pour favoriser leur transmission ?"
→ Postdoctoral researcher at LBBE in the team of A. Gallot Le Grand (MCF UCBL).
03-08/2023 : Yuan GAO (Master 2 - Sorbonne Université)
"Développement d’un outil de vidéo-phénotypage haut débit pour l’étude du comportement de vection des pucerons"
→ Ph.D. student at Institut Sophia Agrobiotech under the supervision of V. Calcagno (DR INRAE).