Rhizotest 2026

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

Bandeau - Rhizotest 2026

Thursday 10 September

08:30-09:00

Exhibition hall - CIRADWelcome coffee


09:00-09:30

Room 40 - Building 6 Workshop introduction

Chairs:
Laure LEMAL - R&D project leader, GINGER BURGEAP
Matthieu N. BRAVIN - Senior researcher, CIRAD

  • What’s new with the Rhizotest method? An interactive session dedicated to highlight new contaminants and rhizosphere processes to address, the associated methodological breakthroughs and their standardization and implementation for food safety and environmental risk assessment.
  • The opportunities and challenges associated with data preprocessing and sharing will be more particularly discussed and avenues for future collaboration will be explored.

09:30-10:30

Room 40 - Building 6Interactive World café

New contaminants - New rhizosphere processes - Standardization - Risk assessment - Data sharing

Chairs:
Giovanni BEGGIO - Senior researcher, University of Padova
Matthieu N. BRAVIN - Senior researcher, CIRAD
Emmanuel DOELSCH - Senior researcher, CIRAD
Pascale HENNER - Senior researcher, ASNR, Cadarache
Tanja MIMMO - Senior researcher, University of Bolzano

  • Rotating focus groups with a final plenary feedback.

10:30-11:00

11:00-11:40

Room 40 - Building 6Interactive World café (continued)


11:40-12:30

Room 40 - Building 6Perspective & Closing remarks

Chair: Matthieu N. BRAVIN - Senior researcher, CIRAD


12:30

Room 130 - Building 4Buffet lunch