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20 February 2026

By: G. Paës

We are recruiting for an administrative and financial manager position.

The recruitment competition campaign (civil service) for engineers, executives, technicians and managers is officially open at INRAE!
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23 February 2026

By: G. Paës

PhD defense of Solmaz HOSSEIN KHANI

Solmaz defended her PhD thesis on 19 February, entitled "Spatio-temporal Analysis and Modelling of Lignocellulosic Biomass Enzymatic Deconstruction".

The recruitment competition campaign (civil service) for engineers, executives, technicians and managers is officially open at INRAE!

Xylosides harboring a D-xylose linked to an aglycone moiety display anti-aging properties of interest for cosmetics. A biocatalytic strategy was developed by FARE and ICMR to prepare a serie of β-xylopyranosides with one or two ester functions using a multistep enzymatic transformation from xylans.

Transformation of lignocellulosic biomass into biobased products, as a sustainable alternative for petroleum-based products, has the potential to mitigate climate change. The enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars is a key step in the biotechnological conversion pathway, but its efficiency is hindered by the natural resistance of the plant cell wall to deconstruction, known as recalcitrance. Predicting cell wall-derived sugar conversion yield during enzymatic hydrolysis is challenging due to the complex underlying mechanisms and the labor-intensive nature of the process.

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Uncovering the mechanisms and tools shaped by Nature to improve the use of renewable carbon and to contribute to sustainable development: this is the ambition of FARE laboratory (Fractionation of AgroResources and Environment).

Our mission, inside the network of our INRAE and URCA partner labs, is focused on three key points of the biological / technological transformation of lignocellulosic plant biomass, for non-food usages:

- follow the degradation of lignocellulose (culture residues, litters) by soil micro-organisms in the field, in order to maintain fertility and to favor ecosystem services necessary for a sustainable agriculture (input management, carbon and nitrogen cycles);

- fractionation of lignocellulose by enzymatic or microbial biotechnological processes, to produce chemicals of interest for chemistry and energy, while respecting the green chemistry concepts (2G bioethanol, sugar-based surfactant,…);

- using agro-sourced fibres and polymers to design innovative nanostructured materials with new optical properties (protective films and coatings) and composite materials with high technical and environmental performances (light, recyclable, biodegradable,…).

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Dr Gabriel Paës, Director of FARE