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Bioeconomy
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Chemistry and Materials
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Energy and Environment
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Health and Nutrition
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Maritime Ambitions
BioEcoAgro (BioEcoAgro)
Research unit - UMR 1158
BioEcoAgro lab is a Franco-Belgian center of excellence in the field of biological engineering applied to agriculture, biotechnology, agri-food, environment and development of agroresources. Our projects mainly concern the understanding of the functioning of plants and ecosystems; identification, characterization and bioproduction of active biomolecules (of plant and microbial origin) for use in human, animal or plant health; food quality and safety; biopreservation; biocontrol as well as the eco-design of processes and products. We are open to all academic and industrial collaborations and propose services in line with our expertise.
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Jean-Louis Hilbert
Assistant director -
Philippe Jacques
Director -
Joël Leonard
Deputy director -
Francois Mesnard
Deputy director
Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, Avenue Paul Langevin
Campus Cité Scientifique, Université de Lille
59655 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ
https://bioecoagro.eu/umrt-bioecoagro_fre/
Effectif
Effectif total : 300
Personnel de recherche : 146
Personnel d'appui à la recherche : 68
Skills
• Plant / soil / environment interactions
• Plant disease biocontrol agents
• Management, optimization and design of cropping systems
• Peptides and lipopeptides
• Metabolites of plant or microbial origin
• Transformation/valorization of biomass by microbial or enzymatic action
• Protein hydrolysates
• Food and digestive microbial ecosystems
• Biopreservation and food formulation
• Food quality and safety
Example(s) of projects
• Valorization of co-products from the agri-food industry by eco-processes for the extraction and purification of phenolic antioxidants
• Health effects and reduction of the bitterness of industrial chicory (Joint laboratory Chic41Health)
• Development of new biopesticides of microbial origin (INTERREG SMARTBIOCONTROL project)
Example(s) of publications
• Antimicrobial Activity of Lipopeptide Biosurfactants Against Foodborne Pathogen and Food Spoilage Microorganisms and Their Cytotoxicity. Konstantina Kourmentza, Xavier Gromada, Nicholas Michael, Charlotte Degraeve, Gaetan Vanier, Rozenn Ravallec, Francois Coutte, Kimon Andreas Karatzas and Paula Jauregi. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021. 🡭
• Long term response of water and nitrogen fluxes to Good Agricultural Practices at field and catchment scales.Beaudoin, N., Venet, E., Maucorps, J., Vandenberghe, C., Pugeaux, N., Viennot, P., Gourcy, L., Brayer, C., Machet, J.M., Couturier, A., Billly, C., Vigour, N., Hulin, G., Dorel, G., Mary, B., Science of The Total Environment, 2021. 🡭
Discover the full list of publications here.
Collaborations/Partners/Scientific clients
AgroParisTech, VetAgro Sup, Gembloux AgroBiotech (University of Liège)
International:
Université Laval (Canada, with an international associated laboratory), Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil with an international associated laboratory), Astrakhan State University (Russia), University of Oran (Algeria), University of Béjaïa (Algeria), Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco), Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands), University of Tübingen (Germany)
Collaborations/Partners/Private Clients
Applications sectors
- Biotechnology
- Health / wellness
- Agri-food industry
- Agriculture
- Cosmetics
- Science / Research
Services provided
• Management of cropping systems and optimization of cultivation techniques within these systems
• Optimization / improvement of agricultural practices
• Design of innovative cropping systems, through the production of agronomic, economic and environmental performance indicators
• Determination of nutritional properties
• Determination of organoleptic properties
• Transformation of biomass by enzymatic or microbial catalysis
• Development of eco-processes
• Development of selective separation processes
• Characterization of foods at the macroscopic, microscopic and molecular levels
Consulting services
• Technological platforms, including two experimental farms
• Exceptional equipment TERRA
• ECOTRON
• Unique industrial fermentation platform
• Food technology halls...
Biological materials
Affiliated institutions / organisations
Partner institution(s)
Groups/Networks/Federations
Doctoral schools
Regional strategic areas of activity
- Bioeconomy
- Biobased chemistry
- Chemistry and Materials
- Circular economy, life cycle analysis
- Green chemistry
- Industrial processes engineering, efficient processes
- Energy and Environment
- Biodiversity
- Health and Nutrition
- Food ingredients
- Genetics, biomarkers and biomolecules
- Safe, healthy and sustainable food
- Maritime Ambitions
- Marine resources
- Maritime safety and security