Rhizotest 2026

Exhibition hall - CIRADWelcome coffee

Auditorium - CIRADDay’s programme overview

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Auditorium - CIRAD3^rd Keynote

Expansion of contaminants considered in Rhizotest

Chair: Matthieu BRAVIN

• KN-03 - Closing the Loop, Screening the Risks: Tracing Food Chain Transfer of Emerging Contaminants from Soils with RHIZOtest
  Giovanni BEGGIO - Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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Auditorium - CIRADOral Session 3

Risk assessment in multi-contaminated soils

Chair: Emmanuel DOELSCH

• S3-O1 - Rhizotest adaptation to track ¹⁴C-labelled organic contaminants from the rhizosphere to plants
  Pierre BENOIT - UMR Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Ecotoxicologie des Agroécosystèmes, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France

• S3-O2 - Rhizotest-based assessment of polystyrene nanoplastic bioavailability in plants: from controlled exposure to field confirmation
  Nataliia RYZHENKO - Nanoscale team Geoscience University of Rennes, University of Rennes, Rennes, France

• S3-O3 - Risk assessment of trace element phytoavailability in contaminated soils through in silico interpretation of Rhizotest measurements
  Alexandra MILLE-EGEA - Recyclage et Risque, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

• S3-O4 - Towards the integration of Rhizotest method into Human health risk assessment on contaminated soils – Feedback from operational applications and ongoing research
  Laure LEMAL - R&D, GINGER BURGEAP, Montpellier, France

• S3-O5 - Early rhizosphere responses of Arundo donax to organic amendments on a post-industrial brownfield
  Ghazwa BASMA - Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústi nad Labem, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic

Hibiscus room - AgropolisBuffet lunch

Room 40 - Building 6Practical Work 1

Classroom introduction to Rhizotest data preprocessing with the DataRhizo* R Shiny app

* DataRhizo is the newly developed, freely accessible web platform to automate Rhizotest data processing

Chairs:
Alexandra MILLE-EGEA - Ph.D student, GINGER BURGEAP/CIRAD
Matthieu N. BRAVIN - Senior researcher, CIRAD
Laure LEMAL - R&D project leader, GINGER BURGEAP

• Initial overview of the DataRhizo R Shiny app, followed by a supervised and personalized practical tutorial on your own dataset
  (Please, come with your computer)

Room 40 - Building 6Coffee time

Lab. 132 - Building 1Practical Work 2

Lab introduction to Rhizotest experiment

Chairs:
Mélanie MONTES - Experimental platform manager, CIRAD
Laure LEMAL - R&D project leader, GINGER BURGEAP
Vivien BAUDASSE - Lab technician, CIRAD
Matthieu N. BRAVIN - Senior researcher, CIRAD

• Learn how to best practice a Rhizotest experiment, with a practical overview of setting up the trials, seed reparation, implementation of the preculture and test culture periods, plant harvesting and soil measurements

MontpellierCity center visit with ‘Xavier vous guide’

Meeting point: ‘Peyrou - Arc de Triomphe’ tram stop.

Despite its young millennium of existence, Montpellier is not only a modern, vibrant and innovative city. Montpellier has also a rich and a hectic (turbulent) History. Once living from the trade activity brought by the Mediterranean Sea, the city became quickly a place of medicine and sciences. Montpellier owns the oldest University of Medicine of the western world. Montpellier passed from a little medieval city to a, now, ambitious city turned toward modernity, future and sciences.

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Trinque Fougasse O’Sud - Jacques Cœur bassinAfter-work cocktail

Come and enjoy some typical French Mediterranean foods, homemade using seasonal produce, all in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, just a short walk from the historical town centre.