The Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), located on the Breton coast of the English
Channel, is a research and training center in marine biology and oceanography, jointly operated by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and by the Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (UPMC).
The SBR is staffed by 49 faculty members (15 associate professors and professors from UPMC, 34 permanent researchers from the CNRS) and 69 technicians and engineers.
Its missions are:
- to promote research and academic education on the biology of marine organisms and ecosystems;
- to provide access to the ecological and biological resources of the site, for the benefit of both the national and transnational scientific community;
- to carry out a series of observations, over the long-term, of the physico-chemical and biological characteristics of the coastal environment next to Roscoff.
The SBR is also actively involved in technology transfer through research contracts with
private companies, including small and medium enterprises. It has a long tradition of hosting visiting scientists and academic courses from a variety of national and European universities. It currently hosts 41 PhD fellows.
Recently the SBR has adopted a leading stance, at both the national and the European
scales, in promoting genomics approaches on marine models and ecosystems. In this context the SBR training capacities have improved significantly.
This EST programme is thus designed to provide early stage researchers with an advanced, interdisciplinary training programme in marine biology, with an emphasis on genomics, genetics and structural biology. It is based both on research and technology training in the Institute’s research groups and core services and on an integrated curriculum of specific courses and workshops.
The pre-doctoral core programme on Population and adaptation is available here : pdf
The SBR hosts 9 early stage researchers for completing a PhD thesis, starting in 2006, within its research teams (see Proposals) and will incorporate 4 researchers for 1 year stay in its technological platforms, starting in 2007 and 2008.
The ESTeam training programme pursues three main goals:
1) Accelerate the social and professional integration of the Marie Curie trainees at the SBR;
2) Reinforce their competitiveness as European researchers when they move to a
different professional environment;
3) Enrol them into a coordinated programme of theoretical and practical courses designed from the conceptual and technological resources of the site.
Practically, this will be achieved as follows:
1) Make sure that the incoming young researchers in the SBR are rapidly integrated, both scientifically and culturally, and make them to grasp as soon as possible the full extent of the scientific opportunities which are offered at the marine station and through its collaborative networks [Integration];
2) Give a high attention to their research projects, including through external mentoring [Training in the Research Teams];
3) Provide them with a complementary training to overcome the obstacles to mobility and to raise their professional profile [Complementary Skills];
4) Provide them with a general awareness on the issues in marine biological sciences, with an emphasis on the transversal questions; and make them aware of the extent of the technical skills which are to be associated with modern biology, now and with a 10 years outlook, and give them the possibility to become familiar with several of these technologies [Pre- doctoral core programme ].
Bernard Kloareg
Director of the Station Biologique de Roscoff
Coordinator of the ESTeam programme
