Christophe Plomion

Christophe Plomion is a scientist director at INRA Bordeaux, BIOGECO unit "Biodiversity Gene and Community”. In 2008, he has been appointed as deputy head of the “Forest, Grassland and Fresh Water Ecology” Division of INRA, and board member of EPSO, the European Plant Science Organization.

His research is focused on the analysis of individual’s and specie’s responses to environmental variations at the phenotypic and molecular levels by integrating functional and evolutionary ecology, genomics and bioinformatics. He is currently coordinating a project aiming at sequencing a reference genome sequence for oak et resequencing four co-occuring Quercus species to identify genes involved in adaptation. Another interest in the genotype to phenotype problem, is its application in breeding.