UMR Physiologie de la
Reproduction
et des Comportements
INRA - Centre Val de Loire
37380 Nouzilly - France
Tèl. : + 33 1 (0)2 47 42 77 98
Fax : + 33 1 (0)2 47 42 77 43
www.tours.inra.fr/prc/
Dr Yves Bigot, CNRS Research Director
French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Head of the team Genomic Plasticity of Phenotypic
Expression
Topic : Search for candidates with a post level to apply
for a 3-years position in our Research team funded by
the European program Agreenskills.
AgreenSkills and AgreenSkills+ (http://www.agreenskills.eu/) are postdoctoral fellowship
programmes co-funded by the European Union and based at INRA (French National Institute for
Agronomical Research), in collaboration with the research and higher education consortium, Agreenium.
The objective of these programs is to attract young high quality candidates in INRA laboratories. The
programmes promote international mobility for experienced young and independent researchers to
develop challenging basic or targeted research projects in the fields of agriculture, environment, food and
nutrition, and animal health. AgreenSkills and AgreenSkills+ boast:
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Applicant-friendly eligibility criteria
Attractive conditions
A transparent selection process
Joint responsibility for labs and fellows tos assure high-quality research projects
Careful attention to the ethical principles in research.
The objective of this advertising is to find candidates with profiles of genetist and genomist with an
interest for sex determinism (non “avianists” are also very welcome). Our expectation is to support
her/his application on a research program (2-3 years) concerning the avian facultative parthenogenesis.
The context of the project is related to the fact that the productions of meat and eggs among domestic
avian species are widely dependent on the sex of animals. If spawners would only generate a single sex, a
breakthrough innovation would be made to production systems, and would avoid the massive destruction
of chicks, reduce food cost and wastes thanks to rational diets optimized for one sex. The ambition of the
project is to create an avian model to study the capacity to produce only males. This model will exploit a
natural genetic property of the birds, the facultative parthenogenesis that allows the production of males
from virgin females. This model will thereafter be used to elucidate the genetic determinism of facultative
parthenogenesis, then on the long term, to verify the possibilities to integrate this feature in avian
production systems and its economic reliability.
In summary, Agreeskills programs supply 2-3 years positions with a Salary net that is 40% over the
normal salary in France (~2450 €/month). Possibilities to extend beyond 2 years exist (decision to take
at the end of the first year in order to apply for more). The candidate must apply with the support of the
lab receiving them (publication CV is important, not in number of paper but in IF level)
Yves Bigot
Contact: yves.bigot@tours.inra.fr or ybigot@wanadoo.fr, Tel : +33 247427566
http://www6.val-de-loire.inra.fr/physiologie_reproduction_comportements
(The website in English is in progress
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