Christophe Godin

Research director at INRIA in Plant Modelling and Computer Science

Head of Inria/Cirad/Inra project Virtual Plants

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Measurement and diditizing of plant architecture

Analysis and modeling of branching structures

Quantification of the notion of physiological state of meristems

Multiscale plant geometry and topology

3D meristem reconstruction

Models of organ morphogenesis (applied to meristem and carpel development)

Models of root initiation

Integration of stochastic and mechanistic components in models of plant development

V-Plants: software plaform of the Virtual Plant team (evolution of AMAPmod)

ALEA: a scalable, modular and open software platform for plant modeling and simulation

Fractal geometry applied to plants

Multiscale structures and algorithms

Algorithms for tree structures (tree characterization and analysis, comparison, self-similarity, compression)

Dynamical systems with dynamical structures (DS)2

Partial differential equations on (DS)2

Automata and Languages for (DS)2

Models of growing structures and multiscale growing structures

Mechanical models of tissues

Study of light interception by isolated crowns (collaboration UMR PIAF Inra-EA Clermont-Ferrand)

Quantification of self-similarity in plants (collaboration Labri Bordeaux, University of Calgary)

Heritability of architectural traits (collaboration Cirad-CP, Inra-GAP)

Varietal selection based on architectural traits (collaboration UMR BEPC Inra-GAP Montpellier)

Mechanisms of plant development in Arabidopsis thaliana (collaboration ENS-lyon, Inra-BV Versailles, University of Montpellier II)

Computer graphics: design methods for complex vegetal forms and multiscale algorithms for plant growth and navigation in plants (collaboration University of Calgary, Canada)

Member of the Inra inter-departments Tree Ecophysiology Network (REA) advisory board since 2001.

Member of the board of the Fédération de Recherche DAPHNE, coordinating joint actions of UMRs working in Plant Sciences in the Region Languedoc Roussillon.

Member of national scientific commissions of specialists:

Member of the steering board at UMR DAP from 2006.

Member of the steering board and head the Mathematics and Computer Science group (MIA) at UMR AMAP from 2002 to 2005.

Expert for several European funding agencies.

Organizer of national and international scientific events (workshops, training sessions, summer schools, conferences).

Member of the international Functional-Structural Plant Models (FSPM) board (chair of the FSPM04 conference in 2004).

Yearly one-week training session on Measure and analysis of plant architecture: 3D digitizing and introduction to the AMAPmod software in collaboration with E. Costes E. (Inra-GAP) and H. Sinoquet H. (Inra-EA) with contributions from C. Pradal, Dones N., Adam B., Guédon Y., Boudon F., Ferraro, P. Heuret. The program of these Inra/Cirad training sessions have been replaced in 2004 by a new program: ALEA, a plateform for plant modelling.

Master course on Plant computational modeling and multiscale structures. Class for 2nd year graduate students. Master in Computer Science, LIRMM, Montpellier II University.

Master course on Modeling in plant science. Class for 2nd year graduate students in collaboration with Y. Guédon and C. Jay-Allemand (U. Montpellier II). Master in Biotraçabilité, Biodétection, Biodiversité, Montpellier II University.