Section: Other Grants and Activities

National initiatives

• Shamash: Shamash is a project funded by the ANR in the national program for research in bioenergy. Its objective is to produce biodiesel from microalgae. Shamash, coordinated by O. Bernard, includes 9 partners, for a total budget of 2.8 Millions Euros. The role of Comore is to design a model of the process in order to better understand the dynamical mechanisms that lead to the transient storage of lipids. The second step will then consist in defining optimal conditions to maximize the oil production. See http://www-sop.inria.fr/comore/shamash/

• Symbiose: Comore takes part in the Symbiose ANR project. The objective of this project is both to improve the energetic balance of biofuel microalgal productions and to recycle nitrogen and phosphorus. The project proposes to study the coupling between a microalgal production system and an anaerobic digester. The objectives of Comore are to propose a model of the coupled system, and to compute the optimal fluxes between the various compartments in order to optimize the energy recovery.

• BFN - LEFE : Comore takes part in the BFN project funded by INSU (Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers) within the LEFE program. The objective is to provide new data assimilation algorithms for improving state and parameter estimation in oceanography. http://www.mip.ups-tlse.fr/~auroux/LEFE/ .

• GDR BioH2: The objective of this GDR is the development of new biotechnological processes based on microorganisms producing hydrogen. Comore is taking part mainly in the modelling and control aspects of the H₂ production processes involving anaerobic bacteria or microalgae.

• MetaGenoReg: The objective of this project, funded by ANR (Systems Biology), is to model and analyze the interaction between metabolic and genetic regulations, with the example of the carbon metabolism of E. coli. The project is directed by D. Kahn (INRA).

• ColAge: This is a joint INRIA-INSERM consortium, and a proposal for an “Action d'Envergure”, which is partly funded by INRIA. The goal is to study bacterial growth and aging by using mathematical modelling and computational predictions to design a de novo biological system, and then implement this design in vivo . The project is directed by H. Berry (Alchemy, INRIA).

• ARC CODA: The objective of this project is to optimize the starting of anaerobic treatment plants. This is a joint project with the INRIA SEQUEL project, INRA LBE and the company Naskeo. Originally funded by INRIA for two years, the project is now funded by INRA.

• IA2L: INRA-SPE is funding a project on intra-guild predation in which we are taking part: “Interactions antagonistes entre auxiliaires : conséquences pour la lutte biologique”.

• RBHS: INRA-SPE is funding the project "Rôle de la biodiversité et des hétérogénéités spatio-temporelles de la distribution des ravageurs et de leurs ennemis naturels dans les phénomènes de régulations biologiques" in which Comore is a partner with INRA Sophia Antipolis and INRA Avignon.

• Mod-Pea: Comore is a partner of the project "Dynamics and evolution of life history traits in plant pathogens and pests" that is funded by the Agropolis foundation. The group of partners of this project includes CIRAD Montpellier (BGPI), INRA Sophia Antipolis, INRA Nancy and Agrocampus Ouest.

• RNSC: Comore is taking part in the project “Dynamique de populations complexes” of the “Réseaux National des Systèmes Complexes."

• COREV: Comore is an active participant in the research group COREV (Modèles et théories pour le contrôle de ressources vivantes et la gestion de systèmes écologiques).

• RTP-M3D: Comore is a participant in the RTP-M3D workgroup (Mathématiques et décision pour le développement durable) that is supported by the “Environment and sustainable growth” department of CNRS.

• Seminar: Comore organizes a regular seminar “Modelling and control of ecosystems” at the station zoologique of Villefranche-sur-Mer or at INRIA.