Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

VITELBIO

Participants : Ihab Haidar, Jérôme Harmand, Alain Rapaport.

VITELBIO stands for VIrtual TELluric BIOreactors and is co-sponsored by INRIA (ARC) and INRA (AAP) for two years starting in 2009. The scientific challenge is to study and identify models of small networks of virtual interconnected bioreactors as a simplified representation of the microbial activity in soils. The focus is made on input/output representations of particular functions of the microbial communities : carbon sequestration, availability of nutrients for plant roots,... The project gathers ten teams and aims at developing a user-friendly software (see 5.4 ) and experiments on a network of four interconnected chemostats.