Duration
4 semesters
Component
Faculty of Science & Technology
Location(s)
Orleans
Presentation
The "Agrosciences, Environment, Territories, Landscape, Forest" master's degree is divided into two courses: BICG "Biologie Intégrative et Changements Globaux" (Integrative Biology and Global Change) and FMB "Forêts et Mobilisation des Bois" (Forests and Wood Mobilization).
The general aim of the "Integrative Biology and Global Change" pathway is to train students, through research, in the structure and functioning of natural, agricultural and forest ecosystems, in the context of global change.
The integrative approach that characterizes the BICG pathway takes into account several scales of study: gene, cell, organism, population, species, community, ecosystem and landscape. The courses offered cover the fields of genetics and evolution, ecology, the biology and physiology of plant and insect adaptation, and the management of natural and anthropized environments.
In Master 1, students complete a 2-month research internship in the second semester (semester 7).
In Master 2, the second semester is entirely devoted to a 6-month research internship (semester 10).
Useful contacts
Faculty of Science & Technology
Biology - Biochemistry Department
1 rue de Chartres - 45067 ORLEANS CEDEX 2
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/sciences-techniques
Head of specialization and M1 Director of Studies:
Stéphanie Bankhead
stephanie.bankhead @ univ-orleans.fr
M2 Director of Studies :
Aurélien Sallé
aurelien.salle @ univ-orleans.fr
Department secretary :
secretariat-bio.st@univ-orleans.fr
Schooling :
masters.st@univ-orleans.fr
Organization
Special features
Students who so wish can spend one or more semesters at a foreign university, after preparing their itinerary with the Director of Studies.
Students also have the option of doing their internships abroad, in or outside Europe.
Program
MASTER 1 BICG course :
Semester 7
EU Landscape ecology (EC 1: Landscape ecology concepts; EC 2: Remote sensing and GIS; EC 3: Urban ecology)
UE Plant - pest interactions (EC 1: Pests and general plant defense mechanisms; EC 2: Induced plant defenses and pest adaptation)
UE Molecular biology and genomics (EC 1: Regulation of expression in eukaryotes; EC 2: Genomics: tools and applications in physiology and ecology)
EU Evolutionary biology and population genetics
EU Environmental influences on plant development
UE Biostatistics 1
EU English
Semester 8
UE Phytosociology and phytoecology (EC 1: Freshwater phytosoecology; EC 2: Phytosociology and phytoecology)
UE Genetics and Plant Breeding (EC 1: Genetics 1; EC 2: Genetics 2)
EU Plant perception of climate change stresses
UE Agroecology and integrated protection
UE Bioassessment of environmental quality
EU Ecotoxicology and Phytomanagement
EU Project management
UE Research internship (2 months)
MASTER 2 BICG course :
Semester 9
UE Forests and climate change (EC 1: Challenges, consequences and levers for adaptation; EC 2: Forest health monitoring)
UE Behavioral biology and adaptation in insects
EU Population, community and ecosystem management (EC 1: Conservation biology; EC 2: Invasion biology; EC 3: Ecological networks)
UE Evolutionary biology and population genomics
UE Genomics for integrative biology (EC 1: Case study in forest ecosystem genomics; EC 2: Bioinformatics: discovery and applications in genomics)
UE Biostatistics 2
UE Databases and GIS
Semester 10
EU Research internship (6 months)
Admission
How to register
M1 application form to be sent to the following address:
M2 application form to be sent to the following address:
Tuition fees
For students:
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/univ/formation/droits-dinscriptions
For adults returning to school; consult SEFCO.
Mandatory prerequisites
Access to M1:
Access by right for holders of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, or Life and Earth Sciences, or Life Frontiers.
Admission to M2:
Candidates must have 60 ECTS from a first-year master's degree in Life Sciences.
And then
Professional integration
Integrative Biology and Global Change Specialization :
- Forest biodiversity consultant
- Teacher-researcher (INRA, CNRS, IRD, CIRAD, IRSTEA, Universities)
- Design office executive