Symposium Speaker

Alain Puppo

After a master degree in Biochemistry, I got a PhD in Plant Biology. I then had a post-doctoral stay in Barry Halliwell’s laboratory at King’s College London, where I started working on reactive oxygen species.

I became Professor at the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis in 1989 and since then I am conducting research on the role of reactive oxygen species in plants and studying redox-related processes in the framework of the Legume – Rhizobium symbiosis. I have published more than 80 papers. I have coordinated two European Research Training Networks and I have been the scientist in charge of nine European Marie Curie Fellowships.

My main current research topics are: (i) the involvement of hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide as signalling molecules in the symbiotic interaction, with a special focus on NADPH oxidases and nitrate reductases, and (i) the role of glutathione in legume symbiotic and more recently pathogenic interactions.

I am currently leader of a group including five researchers and senior-lecturers, four engineers and technicians, two post-doctoral and two doctoral fellows. I have been for eight years (2004 – 2011) Deputy-Director of the Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS – INRA – Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis “Interactions Biotiques et Santé Végétale” which gathered more than 110 people.

I have been member of the National Council of the Universities (1996 – 2003) and of the National Committee of Scientific Research (2007 – 2010). I have been president of the Plant Oxygen Group (Society for Free Radical Research – Europe; 2001 – 2003).

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