In 2026, HelEx was invited to the weekly seminar of the INRAE LIPME laboratory in Castanet-Tolosan, a unit dedicated to plant-microbe-environment interactions. The seminar was an opportunity to bring HelEx’s interdisciplinary work to a broad audience of plant biologists.
Stan Chabert (INRAE) presented HelEx results connecting sunflower breeding and insect interactions, highlighting how genetic variation in floral traits shapes the behaviour and performance of pollinators, and how this can inform both research and breeding priorities.
For HelEx, these seminars matter because they keep the project’s research visible within INRAE’s key laboratories, which are themselves gateways to broader scientific networks and shared infrastructures.
