Contact details

Associate Professor, from 2002 - Habilitate, from 2009

University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) - Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences

Research Unit on Grapevine and Wines in Champagne – EA 4707

Moulin de la Housse, Building 18, BP 1039, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France

E-mail: florence.fontaine@univ-reims.fr

Phone number: 3 33 3 26 91 33 18 / 3 33 6 33 92 64 75

Teaching domains

Biology and physiogy on grapevine ; biology and physiology on plants ; botanic ; ecology, phytosociology.

Scientific expertise

Vitis vinifera L., grapevine trunk diseases (GTD), plant-pathogen interactions, plant physiology, biocontrol strategy

Scientific responsibilities

Chair COST Action FA1303 “Sustainable control of GTDs” 2013-2017, http://managtd.eu/

Partner in WINETWORK projet – ISIB2 H2020 – 2015/17

Leader of a National research progamme on GTD – CASDAR programme – 2010/12 V901 and 2013-2016 V1301, http://www.maladie-du-bois-vigne.fr/

Co-Leader of FAM-Interloire research programme on GTD –2013/2016 – Control strategy against GTDs. International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Disease – member of the scientific committee since 2008.

5 scientific relevant publications

- Spagnolo A., Larignon P., Alayi T. D., Cilindre C., Magnin-Robert M., Schaeffer-Reiss C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2014. Flowering as the highest sensitivity period of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. cv Mourvèdre) to the Botryosphaeria dieback agents Neofusicoccum parvum and Diplodia seriata infection. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 15, 9644-9669.

- Spagnolo A., Magnin-Robert M., Alayi T. D., Cilindre C., Schaeffer-Reiss C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Larignon P., SueroRamirez M., Chong J., Bertsch C., Abou-Mansour E., Fontaine F. 2014. Differential responses of three grapevine cultivars to Botryosphaeria dieback. Phytopathology, 104(10): 1021-1035.

- Spagnolo A., Magnin-Robert M., Alayi T. D., Cilindre C., Mercier L., Schaeffer-Reiss C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2014. Proteomic insights into changes in wood of Vitis vinifera L. in response to esca proper and apoplexy. Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 53 (1), 168-187.

- Bertsch C., Ramirez-Suero M., Magnin-Robert M., Larignon P., Chong J., Spagnolo A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2013. Grapevine trunk diseases: complex and still poorly understood. Plant Pathology, 62(2): 243-365.

- Spagnolo A., Magnin-Robert M., Alayi T. D., Cilindre C., Mercier L., Schaeffer-Reiss C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2012. Physiological changes in green stems of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay in response to esca proper and apoplexy revealed by proteomic and transcriptomic analyses. Journal of Proteome Research, 11: 461-475.

5 relevant international lectures

- Spagnolo A., Larignon P., Magnin-Robert M., Hovasse A., Cilindre C., Schaeffer C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2014. Effect of growth stage on sensitivity of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. cv Mourvèdre) to infection by the Botryosphaeria dieback agents Neofusicoccum parvum and Diplodia seriata. 9th IWGTD, Adelaide (Australia).

- Spagnolo A., Magnin-Robert M., Alayi E., Cilindre C., Mercier L., Schaeffer C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2014. Synthesis of differential physiological perturbations in grapevine organs in response to esca proper and apoplexy. 9th IWGTD, Adelaide (Australia).

- Smart R., Fontaine F. 2014. Grapevine trunk diseases in 2014. How comparable to phylloxera in 1881? 9th IWGTD, Adelaide (Australia).

- Spagnolo A., Magnin-Robert M., Alayi E., Cilindre C., Mercier L., Schaeffer C., Van Dorsselaer A., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2012. Physiological changes in green stems of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay in response to esca proper and apoplexy revealed by proteomic analysis. 8th IWGTD, Valence (Spain).

- Magnin-Robert M., Abou-Mansour E., Spagnolo A., Mercier L., Clément C., Fontaine F. 2012. Defence responses in greens stems, cordon and trunk of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay in response to esca proper and apoplexy. 8th IWGTD, Valence (Spain).