Isabelle Fudal

**Address:** Unité Bioger (UR 1290) Team Effecteurs et pathogenèse chez *Leptosphaeria maculans* Batiment F. Campus AgroParisTech. 22 place de l'agronomie. 91120 Palaiseau. **Contact :** Tél. : +33 (0)6 80 78 46 33 Mail : [Isabelle.Fudal@inrae.fr](mailto:Isabelle) ### <a name="recherche"></a>Research <a name="enseignement"></a><a name="CV"></a>I am a research scientist hired at INRA in the BIOGER unit in 2006, with a background in plant pathology, molecular biology and functional genomics. My main focus was, and still is, on deciphering fungal-plant interactions. Most of my research experience was devoted to understand fungal pathogenicity and signals produced by the fungus, which induce recognition of “non-self” and disease resistance (avirulence genes or effectors). Since I was hired as a permanent scientist at INRA, I am developing functional genomics approaches on plant-fungi interactions with a particular interest to fungal effectors on the model of interaction *Leptosphaeria maculans / Brassica napus*. The objective of my research project is to study the possible roles of effectors on pathogenicity towards *B. napus* (identification, expression, regulation, evolution and functional analysis). To achieve this goal, I develop a pluri-disciplinary project combining bioinformatics, transcriptomics, functional genomics, pathogenicity studies and evolutionary genomics. Recently, I focused part of my researches on the determinism of concerted regulation of effector genes during infection and pointed out on the importance of chromatin status in this regulation. I am co-leading the INRA SPE network REacTION (network on the epigenetic mechanisms that shape plant - Bioaggressors and Symbiotic Organisms interactions) ### Curriculum vitae Since 2020 INRAE Senior Researcher, UMR1290 BIOGER, Grignon 2014 HDR, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay 2006-2019 INRA Researcher Scientist, UMR1290 Bioger, INRA, Grignon 2004-2006 Postdoc, Unité PMDV, INRA, Versailles 2000-2004 PhD, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay 1999-2000 Master Biologie, Diversité et Adaptation des Plantes Cultivées : option Phytopathologie (Paris) 1997- 2000 Engineer degree, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G, Paris)