Tutored project

In this module, students in groups of 3 or 4 work on a concrete project, proposed by teacher-researchers or researchers from private companies, and thus put theoretical knowledge into practice. The project is being carried out in two stages.

The first step is carried out in the first half of the year. It consists of preparing an experiment at the scientific, statistical, technical and financial levels. This work will be punctuated throughout the first semester thanks to the realization of several oral "laboratory seminars" around several themes:

• Seminar 1: Bibliographic research on their tutored project theme.
• Seminar 2: Journal club, with a detailed analysis of a key article around their tutored project theme
• Seminar 3: Presentation of the experimental design and statistical processing of the data
• Seminar 4: Presentation of the material needs related to their experimentation.

The second stage is carried out in the second half of the year where the experiment will be set up, monitored and analysed. The schedule for the second semester is adapted in order to free up time for the regular monitoring of the experiment, which can be done in research laboratories such as those of the UMR AGAP of CIRAD or in a greenhouse (Bat65) of the university. This tutored project work is the subject of a 10-page report in English.

Examples of projects:

• Influence of the lunar calendar on the germination of Arabidopsis thaliana
• Analyzes the effect of inoculation with Phyllobacterium brassicacearum STM196 on the response of 15 rice varieties to salt stress
• Effect of Burkholderia vietnamensis on rice growth under hydroponic conditions
• Influence of intensity and light spectrum on stevia germination
• Effect of Glomus intraradices inoculation and rhizobium pisi inoculation, isolated or cumulative, on pea growth
• Influence of the lunar calendar on the growth of radish, carrot, lettuce, pea and nasturtium

Know-how

• Ability to conduct a literature review (NCBI pubmed, agricola, etc.)
• Be able to read and analyze a scientific article
• Putting statistics lessons into practice
• Keep a notebook of manipulations, organize numerical data
• Work on scientific presentations in seminar format
• Work on technical and scientific English.

 basic statistics, knowledge of laboratory and greenhouse safety