Development of young researchers at BELIS

Ha Trang PHUNG has joined INRAE Agroécologie in Dijon as a bioinformatics research engineer to work on Task 4.5 – Toolkit for legume breeding and research. Ha Trang has studied environmental Sciences at Hanoi University of Science and has obtained an Engineering Degree in Computational Biology at INSA Toulouse. Ha Trang is responsible for the maintenance and enrichment of the BELIS database, which hosts genetic and genomic data. Her role includes developing bioinformatics tools for comparative genomics, ensuring data quality and accessibility for grain and forage legume crop improvement.

Camille Auneau has joined INRAE Agroécologie in Dijon as a bioinformatics engineer on Task 4.1 – Break technological lock-ins in legume genotyping. Camille has studied Biology and Ecology at Montpellier Faculty of Science and has obtained a Master Degree in Bioinformatics and Environmental Genomics at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. In BELIS, Camille is re-engineering in-house Python/Nextflow pipelines to align markers to reference genomes and collate information to develop the grain legume multispecies genotyping tool.

The BELIS project has received funding from the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement N°101081878.