Corinne VACHER, PhD

Research Director at INRAE | Plant microbiota & Plant Health

A major goal of our ongoing projects is to develop new tools and approaches for growing grapevines without pesticides, including microbiome-based disease management.

Ongoing projects

GetUp (funded by France AgriMer, PARSADA, PI: Corinne Vacher, 2025-2030, 4909 k€) – Managing the microbiota to protect grapevines from downy mildew

MICROMOD (funded by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, PI: Simon Labarthe, 2024-29) – Microbial ecology models for biocontrol solutions in plant health

MICROSENTRY (funded by INRAE, PI: Simon Labarthe, 2024-26, 23 k€) – Epidemiological surveillance of sentinel microbial communities for fungal diseases

WHEATSIMPCOM (funded by Consortium Biocontrôle, PI: Qassim Esmaeel, 2023-25, 300 k€) – From metagenomic data to plant health: identifying microbial candidates and designing a microbial simplified community for effective biocontrol in wheat

HOLOVINI (funded by INRAE Holoflux metaprogram, PI: I. Masneuf-Pomarède/J.L. Legras, 2023-25, 300 k€) – Microbiomes at the interface of the vineyard and the cellar at the time of the agroecological transition / WP2 – Ecological drivers of the dynamics of the berry microbiome during ripening (WP2 Leaders: Corinne Vacher and Simon Labarthe

MISTIC (funded by ANR, PePR AN, PI: D. Sherman/P. Abad, 2022-26, 1586 k€) – Computational models of crop plant microbial biodiversity

VITAE (funded by ANR, PPR CPA, PI : F. Delmotte, 2021-27, 2999 k€) – Cultivating the grapevine without pesticides : towards agroecological wine-producing socio-ecosystems / WP1 – Microbiota-based disease management (WP1 Leaders: C. Vacher/S. Labarthe)

VITeDNA (funded by Moët-Hennessy, PI: C. Vacher, 2022-24, 150 k€) – Development of microbial bioindicators of vineyard health and resilience

Contribution to the GRAPEVINE MICROBIOME SURVEY (PI: Dr Raúl Ochoa-Hueso and Dr  Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo). This project is part of the Global Initiative of Crop Microbiome and Sustainable Agriculture

VineESCAFree (ANR-Moët-Hennessy, PI : P. Rey, 2022-26) – Managing vineyards by developing complementary control approaches against grapevine Esca disease

Past projects (since 2015)

INTERACTIF (funded by Labex CEBA, PI: C. Leroy, 2021-23, 98 k€) – Interactive effects of deforestation and climate change on neotropical freshwater ecological networks and ecosystem multifunctionality

Holobrom (funded by INRAE Holoflux metaprogram, PI : C. Roy/H. Schimann, 2020-22, 50 k€) – Maternal effects and environmental filtering on microbial fluxes from mother plants to offspring

AGIS (funded by Labex COTE, PI : O. Lepais, 2019-2022, 29 k€)- In situ genetical analyses

BCMicrobiome (funded by the Biocontrol Consortium, PI : C. Vacher/D. Bohan, 2018-21, 195 k€) – Learning microbial networks from metabarcoding data: application to biological control [Press release]

NGB (funded by ANR, PI : D. Bohan, 2017-2021, 790 k€) – Next Generation Biomonitoring of change in ecosystem structure and function / WP1 – Sampling and metabarcoding (WP Leaders: C. Vacher/E. Guichoux)

MicroMic (funded by Labex COTE, PI : C. Vacher, 2017-20, 277 k€) – Forecasting changes in microclimate and microbial diversity in forest canopies under climate change scenarios  

Athene (funded by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, PI : C.Vacher, 2016-20, 202 k€) – Mitigating the effects of climate change on the biodiversity and ecosystem services of forests in Aquitaine

Drought (funded by the Labex CEBA, PI : D. Bonal, 2016-19, 268 k€) – Functional diversity and response to drought in tropical forests

ANTOPTIC (funded by the LABEX COTE, PI : A. Rusch, 2018-19, 39 k€) – Analysis of trophic network to optimize the delivery of natural pest control services

Vertige (funded by the Labex CEBA, PI : H. Schimann, 2017-18, 27 k€) – Vertical stratification and functioning of the fungal and bacterial communities in the canopy of a tropical rainforest

Brassica-Div-Patho (funded by the INRA MEM metaprogram, PI : C. Mougel, 2016-18, 50 k€) – Microbial diversity and microbial networks associated to Brassica napus

Learn-Biocontrol (funded by the INRA MEM metaprogram and Bordeaux Sciences Agro, PI : C. Vacher / J. Vallance, 2016-18, 146 k€) – Learning microbial networks from NGS data : application to biocontrol

MicroFlux (funded by EC2CO, PI : E. Lamaud, 2016-17, 23kE) – Airflow measurement system for characterizing bacterial emission from land surfaces

Metabar (funded by the INRA MEM metaprogramme, PI : M. Buee, 2016-17, 50 k€) – Metabarcoding of microbial metacommunities