Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

LABEX SIGNALIFE

The MORPHEME team is member of the SIGNALIFE Laboratory of Excellence.

ARC DADA

Participants : Xavier Descombes [PI] , Florence Besse, Huei Fang Yang, Alejandro Mottini.

The DADA project (Description et Analyse Dynamique de la Croissance Axonale) is a common projet with the SERPICO team from Inria Bretagne (Charles Kervrann). The goal is to develop new computational techniques to track axons during their growth. We consider 4D data obtained on a bi-photons microscope. In a longer term, we expect to model the morphological develpement of axons in different populations to characterize some disorders such as the fragile-X symdrom. (DADA ).

ANR DIAMOND

Participants : Laure Blanc-Féraud [PI] , Saima Ben Hadj.

In collaboration with the Pasteur Institute (Jean-Chritophe Olivo Marin) , the MIPS laboratory of Université de Haute Alsace (Alain Dieterlen, Bruno Colicchio) , the LIGM of Université Paris-Est (Jean-Christophe Pesquet, Caroline Chaux, Hugues Talbot), and INRA Sophia-Antipolis (Gilbert Engler).

(DIAMOND )

ANR MOTIMO

Participants : Laure Blanc-Féraud, Xavier Descombes, Eric Debreuve, Huei Fang Yang, Clarens Caraccio.

In collaboration with Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, INRA, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, Laboratoire J-A Dieudonné, et IMV Technologies (PME).

ANR POXADRONO

Participants : Florence Besse [PI] , Xavier Descombes, Laure Blanc-Féraud.

The young researcher ANR project POXADRONO is in collaboration with Caroline Medioni, Hélène Bruckert, Giovanni Marchetti, Charlène Perrois and Lucile Palin from iBV. It aims at studying ARN regulation in the control of growth and axonal guidance by using a combination of live-imaging, quantitative analysis of images, bio-informatic analysis and genetic screening.

Inria Large-scale initiative Morphogenetics

Participants : Grégoire Malandain, Xavier Descombes.

This action gathers the expertise of three Inria research teams (Virtual Plants, Morpheme, and Evasion) and other groups (RDP (ENS-CNRS–INRA, Lyon), RFD (CEA-INRA-CNRS, Grenoble)) and aimed at understanding how shape and architecture in plants are controlled by genes during development. To do so, we will study the spatio-temporal relationship between genetic regulation and plant shape utilizing recently developed imaging techniques together with molecular genetics and computational modelling. Rather than concentrating on the molecular networks, the project will study plant development across scales. In this context we will focus on the Arabidopsis flower, currently one of the best-characterised plant systems.

PEPII 1

Participants : Laure Blanc-Féraud, Xavier Descombes [PI] , Alejandro Mottini.

This project aims at studying graphs in biological context (axons, vascular networks $\cdots$). In collaboration with Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CerCo (Toulouse) .

PEPII 2

Participants : Laure Blanc-Féraud [PI] , Xavier Descombes, Eric Debreuve, Clarens Caraccio.

In collaboration with Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, INRA, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, Laboratoire J-A Dieudonné, et IMV Technologies (PME).

Informal collaboration

Participant : Eric Debreuve.

• Partners: Barbara André, Mauna Kea Technologies, Paris, France

• Subject: Automatic classification of endomicroscopic videos