Section: Dissemination

Services to the scientific community

• Christophe Godin has rendered the following services in 2009:

  • he is a member of the Steering Committee of UMR DAP,

  • he is a member of the board of the Fédération de Recherche (IFR) DAPHNE, coordinating joint actions of UMRs working in Plant Sciences in the region Languedoc Roussillon,

  • he is the representant of the IFR at the doctoral school of the University of Montpellier II, SIBAGH, in Plant Biology,

  • he is a member since 2003 of the INRA expert scientific commissions (CSS Ecophysiologie, génétique et biologie intégrative des plantes) that assesses INRA individual researcher activities.

  • he was a referee for 3 PhD theses (J. Diener, INRIA-INPG; A. Verdenal, INRA, Poitou-Charentes University and 'Opponent' of J. Perttunen, U. Helsinki, Finland)

  • he was a reviewer for a project submitted to the Swiss National Science Fundation.

  • he was member of commissions for CR1/CR2 researcher positions at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and Professor position at ENS-Lyon.

  • he is member of the international advisory board of the Functional-Structural Plant Models conference since 2001 (he was chair of the conference in 2004) and member of the scientific board of FSPM'10.

  • he was a reviewer for international conferences (SMI and EuroGraphics), and journals (Transactions on Graphics, Journal of theoretical Biology, Fractals, Technique et Science Informatiques, Computer and Graphics, PNAS, Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Journal, Computer Graphics Forum, Bioessays).

• Yann Guédon has rendered the following services in 2009:

  • he is a member of the editorial board of Annals of Botany and a member of the ERCIM working group "Computing & Statistics".

  • he was a member of the TIARE committee for the evaluation of CIRAD researchers.

  • he reviewed for Biometrics (2009, 65(4), p. 1312) the book Semi-Markov Chains and Hidden Semi-Markov Models toward Applications: Their Use in Reliability and DNA Analysis by Barbu, V. S. and Limnios, N.

  • he was a referee for papers submitted to Acta Biotheoretica, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Statistics and Computing, Water Resources Research and GRETSI'09 conference.

• Frédéric Boudon was referee for papers submitted to Computer and Graphics and Shape Modelling International. He was referee for 1 PhD thesis (C. LAM, XLIM, Limoge)

• Christophe Pradal coordinates the national platform for plant modeling OpenAlea . He was a member of a CIRAD evaluation committee.