The platform is specialized in the development of experimental design aimed to the identification of small bioactive molecules coming from plants mainly but also from animals, microbes and human. Small molecules made by living organism are also named metabolites. Therefore has been coined in the late 90s the word Metabolomics which represent the field that study the metabolomes. In our group small molecules identification is made by means of modern analytical tools using chromatography and mass spectrometry.
Understanding of plant metabolic networks
Manager : Julie ZUMSTEG
A big challenge for modern agriculture relies on a better understanding of plant metabolic networks responsible of plant growth, plant resistance and plant defense. The project consist on the identification of large set of metabolites, several hundreds of metabolites simultaneously in one single analysis without the need of labeling or purification.
