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The votes are in and we have three winning photographers to congratulate!
For those of you who voted, we gave points to each of your selections in order of your preference (3 for your first choice, 2 for the second, 1 for the third).

Stéphanie Delvig victoriously came away in first place with 41 points for her photograph called Chêne dépérissement taken in Champenoux this last winter.  In elegent second place is Erwin Dreyer with 31 points for Forêt de hêtres taken in Danemark.  In third place, François Jobert claimed 14 points for the only photograph he submitted, Fraxinus exelsior en contre-plongée taken in Picardie.

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our contest with your submissions and your votes.  Our special contratulations to the winning photographers!

For a close up look at the winning photographs, click here

For the full presentation of qll submitted photographs, their authors and captions, please click here.. Presentation of all photographs

 Wood Thesis Day

July 2, 2014
Bordeaux, France

Call for papers is open ..

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In the context of its policy to support sustainable development in the forest wood sector, under the guidance of its Scientific Council and with support from the Bordeaux University Foundation, Xylofutur will host on July 2, 2014 in Bordeaux , the ninth national awards session for the “Wood Thesis” prize.

This event is to aimed promote research activities on the national level between industry professionals and decision-makers in both higher education and public research.

All papers should be submitted by May 8, 2014 to :  melanie.covas@xylofutur.fr

For more detailed information about this call for papers, please follow this link :
Call for papers – Xylofutur Wood Thesis 2014

To consult the Xylofutur website, please click here : Xylofutur

INRA is recruiting PhD students for Young Scientist Contracts

The Young Scientist Contract (or CJS) is a unique opportunity to work with INRA in partnership with the Doctoral School RP2E or with a research organization.

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INRA and the Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (RP2E) is offering a limited term contract for 3 years (the time to complete PhD studies) followed by two years of postdoctoral research abroad. Research will take place in Nancy, France.  Candidates may choose between 4 topics of research.

For more information, follow this link
CJS 2014 – Call for applications

The submissions are in ! 25 participants stepped up to the challenge and submitted 91 photographs. A stunning cross-section of art and science and testimony to the many layers of discovery happening around us every day.

To view all submitted photos, follow this link to our Photos presentation page where each image is assigned a number for voting. Here, you can click on each image for a larger format view.

Next, download our Voting form or simply contact us with your 3 selections for winning photographs in order of your preference. Keep in mind we are asking for one vote per person. Remember to let us know where you are from, where you work or how you found us. The last day to vote is  Friday April 4.

We want to thank all participating photogaphers and LabEx enthusiasts for following the LabEx Photo Contest.

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Photos presentation – Click here to view the submitted photographs. Note that each are assigned a number for voting.

Voting form – download and email to : aorsini@nancy.inra.fr

FEC 2014 – 5th Forest Engineering Conférence
Forest engineering : propelling the forest value chain

Registration is now OPEN

23-26 September 2014
Gerardmer, France
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FCBA is proud to host of the Fifth Forest Engineering Conference together with the 47th International Symposium on Forestry Mechanisation this coming fall.

The Forest Engineering Conference (FEC), an international event held every four years, is a forum for forest engineers from around the world to share their knowledge, experience, and emerging ideas.

We would like to encourage you to participate in this conference. This is a unique opportunity to meet with a broad range of actors in the forestry-wood industry and presents the chance to develop collaborative projects which Labex ARBRE will review with great interest in the framework of its mission to support actions around R&D and valorization.F

For the conference poster – Affiche FEC2014

Project leaders for proposals awarded Labex support in 2012 present their key results and next steps for the future.

For more information, please click here-  2012 Research Projects

“Even if we think that our research is purely fundamental in the moment, it will eventually have an applied interest. This is what makes research interesting and exciting.”

Doctoral candidate :  Aurélie Deroy
Research Team : UMR IAM

Aurélie Deroy is a young researcher working in the microbiology unit “Interaction Trees/Micro-organism”. In her research, Aurelie is studying a fungus that decomposes wood. She is interested in certain proteins called enzymes, compounds essential to the life of cells, which allow the fungus to protect themselves against toxic products released when wood is degraded.

Aurélie participated in the training program Experimentarium in Lorraine this last fall, a project providing a framework in which doctoral students with the University of Lorraine prepare to meet and share their experiences as researchers with the non-scientific public.  See the fact sheet

Recently, together with Melanie Morel, Aurélie made a short 2 minute video on the theme “Biodiversity of fungi forest lignivors” which will be presented during the debate organized by the Conference of Presidents of University (CPU) on 19 February at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, on the theme “The societal challenge of biodiversity”. See the video

Aurélie is currently working on her thesis in the framework of the SYMWOOD project. The title of her thesis is ‘Local adaptation of saprophytic mushrooms’.

Research Project SYMWOOD

The Conference of University Presidents (CPU) has organized a debate on ‘societal challenges associated with biodiversity’ to be held on the 19th of February at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.  In this context, two of our colleagues, Mélanie Morel and Aurélie Deroy (with the joint research unit UMR IAM) have produced a short 2 minute video entitled “biodiversity of fungi involved in wood degradation”.

Watch the video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vCqVMKDDEQ&feature=youtu.be

Homepage for the Conférence des présidents d’université (CPU) :
http://www.cpu.fr/actualite/le-defi-societal-de-la-biodiversite/