Research institutes, demonstration vineyard and universities/schools
Chair holders
Patrice Rey
Patrice Rey has been a professor in plant protection at Bordeaux Sciences Agro since 2007. He joined the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour in 2021. He was Scientific Director of BSA (2011-2015) and Deputy Director of the SAVE research unit (INRAE-BSA 2007-2017). He is currently working on biocontrol of grapevine trunk diseases and microbial ecology.
In France, he was a member of ANSES, working on "micro and macro-organisms beneficial to plants" (2013-2019), and scientific committees in viticulture (2007-2019), horticulture (2000-2019), fruits/vegetables (2012-2017). At the international level, he is a member of the OIV Grapevine Protection Group since 2016. He was the titular coordinator of the first industrial chair in agronomy, GTDfree (2016-2021).
He has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals (Hindex=32) and supervised 11 PhD students (+4 in international collaborations).
Eleonore Attard
Research engineer at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour for more than 10 years, Eleonore Attard studies microbial ecology in agrosystems and focuses on the role of plant endophytes.
She coordinates or contributes to the coordination of projects aiming at evaluating and exploiting the roles of beneficial microorganisms in potato crops (Eranet H2020), in corn seeds (in collaboration with Euralis, an international seed company), and in grapevine (in collaboration with GreenCell).
She co-supervises 2 PhD students, one of them with Patrice Rey. She has published 17 papers (H-index=12).
