General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-26-0699
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Life Sciences
Thesis topics
Uncovering the signaling roles of inositol polyphosphates in plant growth and development
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Inositol polyphosphates (InsPs), particularly their pyrophosphate derivatives (PP-InsPs), are recently characterized as signaling molecules present in all eukaryotes. Extensive research has been conducted on the PP-InsP pathway revealing its impacts on organogenesis and various diseases such as cancer metastasis, obesity, and diabetes. Cellular PP-InsPs exist in low concentrations, complex isoforms, and turnover fast, therefore, making them a real challenge to monitor and to analyze. This restricts the PP-InsP study especially on defining their specific roles or putatively variable distribution among cells/tissues. To solve the problem, this project aims to create cellular reporters for monitoring PP-InsPs in real-time. Given the PP-InsP pathway is conserved, the development of the PP-InsP sensors in plants will have a broader impact on the study of to the fundamental characteristics of PP-InsP signaling in animals. For example, the transfer of the PP-InsP reporters to cancer cell lines for possibility to use it for better understanding of PP-InsP-regulated cancer metastasis in the future.
University / doctoral school
Sciences du Vivant
Aix-Marseille Université
Thesis topic location
Site
Cadarache
Requester
Position start date
01/09/2026
Person to be contacted by the applicant
Zhu Jinsheng
jinsheng.zhu@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/BIAM//EBMP
BIAM-EBMP
CIté des énergies
CEA Cadarache 13108 St Paul lez Durance
0442253152
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
Zhu Jinsheng
jinsheng.zhu@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/BIAM//EBMP
BIAM-EBMP
CIté des énergies
CEA Cadarache 13108 St Paul lez Durance
0442253152
En savoir plus
https://www.cite-des-energies.fr/biam/recherche/ebmp/