Rhizotest 2026

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

Bandeau - Rhizotest 2026

Wednesday 9 September

08:30-09:00

Exhibition hall - CiradWelcome coffee


09:00-09:45

Auditorium - Cirad3rd Keynote

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

09:45-12:00

Auditorium - CiradOral Session 3

Risk assessment in multi-contaminated soils

Chair: Emmanuel DOELSCH

09:45-10:15
  • S3-O1 - Rhizotest adaptation to track 14C-labelled organic contaminants from the rhizosphere to plants
    Claire-Sophie HAUDIN - UMR Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Ecotoxicologie des Agroécosystèmes, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
10:15-10:45
  • 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
10:45-11:15
  • 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
11:15-11:45
  • 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, Jacou, Occitanie, France
11:45-12:00
  • 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

12:00-13:30

13:30-15:15

Laboratories - Building 1Practical Work 1

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

Chair: TBC


15:15-15:45

15:45-17:30

Room 40 - Building 6Practical Work 2

Lab introduction to Rhizotest experiment

Chair: TBC


18:30

MontpellierCity center visit


After-work cocktail