Training structure
Faculty of Science
Presentation
Plants are directly and indirectly the basis of our food chain. In their environment, plants are constantly in association with micro-organisms that constitute their microbiota. Some of these microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses...) are severely detrimental to crops while others improve their overall health (nutrition, development or resistance to diseases). Therefore, a strategy to meet the challenges of both production and food or feed safety is to understand how plants react, adapt and eventually benefit from the presence of microorganisms in their environment.
Objectives
Thanks to a balanced combination of training and practical training (10 months of laboratory internships divided between M1 and M2), our objective is to train students capable of describing and understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the interactions of plants with their biotic environment.
To do so, we will rely on the great scientific wealth in this field within the Muse perimeter (University of Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, INRAE, Montpellier Supagro).
Know-how and skills
Knowledge and understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the relationship between a plant and its biotic environment.
Moreover, although oriented towards the study of biotic interactions, at the end of this course, the student will also have acquired skills in the main thematic fields ranging from physiology to genetics, epigenetics to plant improvement.
A competence in the use of current research tools will also be acquired (statistics, modeling, database management...)
Program
The Plant-Microorganism Interactions (PMI) course includes 4 semesters (120 ECTS) with specific teaching units (UE) and others shared with the 3 other Plant courses (BiPa, BPT, MEV). The list and details of the content of each of the UEs of the master is available on the website of the Faculty of Sciences.
The first semesters of M1 and M2 are devoted to academic teaching. The second semesters are mainly dedicated to internships (in the laboratory or in a company) in the thematic fields of the course and in line with the student's professional project. It should be noted that all the practical work of the disciplinary UEs of semester 1 are grouped together in a dedicated UE at the very beginning of semester 2.
A study or internship mobility (ERASMUS), over one or two semesters, is greatly facilitated thanks to the very large network of partnerships between the University of Montpellier and European universities.
Biostatistics with R
5 creditsElements of plant pathology
3 creditsPlant Cellular and Molecular Biology
3 creditsPlant development
5 creditsPlant-Microorganism Interactions
5 creditsBasics of ecophysiology
2 creditsPlant molecular genetics
5 creditsPlant nutrition
2 credits
Bioinformatics: Data and Databases
2 creditsBibliographic synthesis
2 creditsCHOICE 1
3 creditsYour choice: 1 of 2
Gene networks-Modeling
3 creditsImprovement of tropical and Mediterranean plants
3 credits
Internship 4 months
15 creditsExperimental approaches to plant biology
5 creditsProject management
3 credits
Admission
Conditions of access
Applications are made on the following platforms:
- French & European students: follow the "My Master" procedure from the website: https: //www.monmaster.gouv.fr/