EuropoleMER Projects

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Based on a strong collaboration developed through existing projects such as OUEST-Genopole®, GIS Institut de la Génomique marine, network of excellence « Marine Genomics Europe », the teams from Europole Mer have already played a leading role to organise, in France and in Europe, experimental marine biology research with an integrative approach as required by genomics.

This strategy has placed France in a leadership positions in Europe and the GIS Europole Mer must pursue and reinforce this dynamic.

The implementation strategy of Research Area 1 over 2008-12 is based on the following actions :

• To maintain an active animation between partners of the network of excellence "Marine Genomics Europe";
  
  
• To support this network of laboratories and their unique infrastructures, and to increase their capacity thanks to the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) Program of the 7th Framework Program of the European Union.;
  
  
• To develop an international PhD program in systemic marine biology around the University Pierre and Marie Curie and a few European Universities;
  
  
• To initiate an international program in experimental marine biology in order to promote research on marine models for fundamental biology and on improvement of cultivated species;
  
  
• To tighten links with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) through exchanges of expertise on services and activities common to both partners; and through collaborative projects between scientists from EMBL and GIS Europole Mer, in particular with co-supervised PhD thesis ; 
  
  
• To host one or several chairs of excellence working on topcis related to Research Area 1.