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COLIN Francis

Senior researcher (« Directeur de recherches’) Co-leader of the research team PHARE (25 permanent persons + 5 PhD students) Leader of the projects LABEX « BARK-TAN-BIO » and MAAF-FEDER « EXTRA FOR EST
Francis Colin

COLIN Francis

Research Unit: SILVA

Research Team: PHARE ‘Physiology of the tree in its environment’
Centre INRAE Grand Est -Nancy
F-54280 CHAMPENOUX (France)

francis.colin@inrae.fr

+33 (0) 3 83 39 40 42

+33 (0) 7 82 17 05 98

Education

2003: Accreditation for supervising researches (HDR): Nancy University
1992: PhD in Forest Science: Engref-Nancy (now AgroParisTech-Nancy)
1990: Forest Engineer: Engref-Nancy (now AgroParisTech-Nancy) 
1988: Master in Forest Science: Nancy University

Scientific activities

  • Themes

♦ Chemical wood properties especially extractives contents

♦ Tree development and architecture - Branching (forks, sequentials and epicormics)

♦ Biomass estimation of trunk, branches, bark, heartwood, juvenile wood, knots

♦ Wood formation in branches and knots

♦Silviculture and wood quality

  • Measurement instruments

♦ X-ray tomography

♦ Terrestrial Lidar

♦ Network of experimental plots

♦ Statistical modelling

  • PhD theses: Supervisor (S) and Co-supervisor (CoS):

♦ Rodolphe Bauer (2017-2020) (S). Estimation of the volume of bark, heartwood and knots. Within-tree and interspecific variability (MAAF et FEDER Lorraine)

♦ Antoine Billard (2017-2020) (S). Analysis of the within-tree and interspecific variability of wood density (ADEME – Région Grand-Est)

♦ Van-Tho Nguyen (2015-2018) (S). Estimation of the quality with T-Lidar. In collaboration with T. Constant (LERFoB), A. Piboule (ONF RDI Nancy), A. Krähenbühl, B. Kerautret, I. Debled-Rennesson (LORIA)

♦ Jialin Song (2014-2017) (S) QTL analysis of the branching of Quercus robur. In collaboration with Antoine Kremer, Christophe Plomion, Catherine Bodénès (UMR BIOGECO Bordeaux) et Oliver Brendel (UMR EEF Nancy)

♦ Zineb Kebbi-Benkeder (2012-2015) CoS)Interspecific and intraspecific biodiversity of knot extractives. AgroParisTech PhD in Wood science and fibres. 186p.  In collaboration with P. Gérardin et S. Dumarçay (LERMAB)

♦ Jean-Baptiste Morisset, (2009-2012) (S). X-Raytomography ; analysis and modelling of the ontogenesis of the epicormics of Quercus petraea (L.) Matt.). Thèse AgroParisTech PhD in Forest Sciences. 142p  and annexes. In collaboration with F. Mothe (LERFoB)

  • Research management

Projects

       ► French projects

2017-2020. Projet MAAF – FEDER Lorraine « EXRAFOR-EST » (ressources régionales en biomasse ligno-cellulosique pour une utilisation en chimie des extractibles)

2017-2019. LABEX « Arbre » Projet innovant « BARK-TAN-BIO » (variabilité intra-arbre et interspécifique des taux d’extractibles dans l’écorce)

2016. LABEX « Arbre » Projet « PROTEXTRA » (mesure du duramen des branches) (Responsable)

2016. LABEX « Arbre » Projet « Post-doc Zineb » (Post-doc à OSU Corvallis de Z. Kebbi-Benkeder ) (Responsable)

2015. LABEX « Arbre » Projet AFE « OAK-Epic » (Effet site sur la détermination des QTLs de ramification du chêne pédonculé) (Responsable)

2014. LABEX « Arbre » Projet AFE « Menzies0 »  (accueil de Nate Osborne de OSU Corvallis) (Responsable)

2012-2015. Contrat ONF-INRA ModelFor3 (Responsable d’actions) Actions « Génétique des épicormiques du chêne » et « Qualité du Sapin et du Douglas »

2012-2015. LABEX “Arbre”  Projet « Wood acclimation in disturbed environment » (« WADE »);  Responsable de tâche « Branch Wood »

2011. Contrat ONF-INRA ModelFor2. Responsable de thème 3 : « Croissance et qualité des bois » 

2005-2010. Contrat ONF-INRA ModelFor2. Responsable d’action A31 : « Élaboration de la qualité commerciale des grumes de Hêtre et de Chêne »

2004-2005. Contrat ONF-INRA 4839B. Analyse des situations sylvicoles à risque de présence élevée de gourmands dans les peuplements de chêne sessile et pédonculé (Responsable)

       ► European projects

1997-1998 : FAIR-BM96.2554 Recommendations for afforestation of agricultural set-aside with oak species (Coordinateur)

1996-1999 : OAK-KEY (PL95-0823) New silvicultural alternatives in young oak high forests. Consequences on high quality timber production (Coordinateur)

1994-1998. Root-Arch  (CT93-1269) Aspects of sustainability by afforestation of agricultural set aside areas : development of roots and shoot/root ratios (Resp. INRA)

1992-1994. FOREST (CT91-0024) Silvicultural control and non-destructive assessment of timber quality in plantation grown spruces and Douglas fir (Resp. Tâche)

  • Conference organization

International conference « EPIC-CONF » Nancy (France) September 14-17 2017 (chairman)

International IUFRO « MeMoWood » conference ; group 5.01.04 « Wood Quality Modelling »  Nancy (France) October 1-4 2013 (chairman)

  • Extension

♦ Silviculture and improvment of wood products products

♦ Forest resources estimation (solid wood, extractives…)

♦ Continuing education: silviculture and wood quality

Courses

(AgroParisTech Nancy & Master AETPF ‘Agrosciences, Environnement, Territoires, Paysage, Forêt’ Université de Lorraine)

♦ Biology of tree development

♦ Silviculture and wood properties

♦ Storm damages in forests

Scientific papers

  • Kebbi-Benkeder Z., Manso R., Dumarçay S., Gérardin P., Chopard B., Colin F., 2017. Knot extractives: a model for analyzing the eco-physiological factors that control the within and between-tree variability. Tree Physiology 31 (5) : 1619–1633 doi:10.1007/s00468-017-1573-z
  • §  Song J., Brendel O., Bodénès C., Plomion C., Kremer A., Colin F., 2017. X-ray computed tomography to decipher the genetic architecture of tree branching traits: oak as a case study. Tree Genetics and Genomes 13 (5): 1-15 doi: 10.1007/s11295-016-1083-y

All publications

All Francis Colin publications
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