Rhizotest 2026

7-10 September 2026‌ - Campus de Lavalette, Montpellier, France‌

Bandeau - Rhizotest 2026

Tuesday 8 September

09:00

Exhibition hall - Cirad Conference & Workshop registration


09:00-09:30

Exhibition hall - CiradWelcome coffee


09:30-10:00

Auditorium - CiradWelcome words

  • Ademe, Ginger, Cirad

10:00-10:45

Auditorium - CiradIntroductive Keynote

Chair: Tanja MIMMO

  • KN-01 - Rhizotest: a 30-year human and scientific adventure from the rhizosphere to risk assessment
    Matthieu N. BRAVIN - Recyclage et risque, Cirad, Montpellier, France

10:45-12:00

Auditorium - CiradOral Session 1

Rhizosphere processes

Chair: Tanja MIMMO

10:45-11:15
  • S1-O1 - Mechanistic insights into phosphorus dynamics at the soil–plant interface using RHIZOtest devices
    David HOUBEN - AGHYLE, UniLaSalle, Beauvais, France
11:15-11:45
  • S1-O2 - A journey into 20 years of use of RHIZOtest-like design to assess the mobility and soil-plant transfer of radionuclides
    Pascale HENNER - ASNR/PSE-ENV/SPDR/LT2S, Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire et de Radioprotection, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
11:45-12:00
  • S1-O3 - Mercury mobilization in the hemp rhizosphere: roles of dissolved organic carbon, mineral colloids and pH
    Antoine DELEMAZURE - Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

12:00-13:30

13:30-14:15

Auditorium - Cirad2nd Keynote

Chair: Matthieu BRAVIN

  • KN-02 - From Soil–Plant Transfer to Rhizosphere Processes: Expanding Applications of the RHIZOtest System
    Tanja MIMMO - Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

14:15-15:30

Auditorium - CiradOral Session 2

Major nutrients and trace elements

Chair: Ronan COURTNEY

14:15-14:45
  • S2-O1 - Soil Fertility and Rhizosphere Enzyme Responses to Tannery Bio-Waste–Derived Fertilizers: A Combined Incubation and Rhizotest Approach
    Andrea CIURLI - Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
14:45-15:15
  • S2-O2 - Assessing the bioavailability and uptake of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) by durum wheat in contaminated soils subjected to laboratory-simulated fires
    Concetta Eliana GATTULLO - University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
15:15-15:30
  • S2-O3 - Soil-amendments-herbaceous plants rhizospheric interactions in the context of enhancing brownfield soils quality: Impacts on microbial activity and metal stabilization
    Batoul HAMADE - Department of Environment, University of Jan Evangelista in Usti nad Labem, Usti nad Labem, Czechia

15:30-16:00

16:00-17:30

Auditorium - CiradOral Session 2 (continued)

Major nutrients and trace elements

Chair: Pascale HENNER

16:00-16:30
  • S2-O4 - Application of Bioassays for the Assessment of Technosols Derived from Metalliferous Residues and Tailings
    Benedikt HUEBNER - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
16:30-17:00
  • S2-O5 - PRIMARy: Potential of the RHIZOtest for the study of antibiotic resistance
    Emmanuel DOELSCH - Unité Recyclage et risque, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
17:00-17:30
  • S2-O6 - Tracking antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes through the waste-soil-plant continuum: a novel application of the Rhizotest methodology
    Laura ALVAREZ FRAGA - Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology (LBE), INRAE, Narbonne, France

17:30

Free time in Montpellier