Victor Papin

Breeding of long-living species such as trees becomes very challenging in a context of rapid climate change. We seek to extend the classical genetic evaluation of maritime pine with reaction norms and genomic predictions.

Goals:

• Explore phenotypic plasticity of maritime pine and integrate environmental information into classical genetic evaluations through the use of genomic reactions norms fitted with random regression models;
• Develop robust genomic selection models for maritime pine, particularly performant to predict intra-family variability.

During my schooling, I did several internships, notably at the Agrigenomics Research Center of Barcelona and at the University of Davis, US, in the department of plant sciences. I hold a masters in plant breeding from the ENSA-Toulouse, France. Before starting my PhD, I worked for one year in the Biostatistics team of the seed company Limagrain.

I am specifically interested in:

Programming language and software:

Sports: I've been playing tennis and squash for a very long time, and more recently I've taken up running. I also love watching rugby (I'm not strong enough to play it).

Travel: I love to travel, especially to discover nature by hiking, kayaking or other outdoor sports. I have visited the south of Europe a lot (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia…) and more recently the US and Mexico.