Since their welcome day at the beginning of the academic year, the students of the Master 2 in Biomass Engineering for Bioeconomy (M2 BEB) have been actively engaged in a wide range of academic and professional activities.
The program began with welcoming days, allowing students to meet their professors, discover the structure of the year, and connect with their peers. This initial meeting set a collaborative and motivated tone for the year ahead.
No later than the week that followed, students have started their Green Line Project experimental work in the labs of Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (IJPB) in Versailles, under the supervision of Hector-Adiel Flores Nestor, a Bioceb alumnus, (team DECLIC) and Ana Lopez Malvar (team QUALIBIOSEC), both post-doc researchers at INRAE. Several practical lab sessions in group have already taken place, encouraging teamwork and hands-on learning.
It also gave them the opportunity to meet international guest lecturers in biorefinery (visit of Prof. Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate from UNAL (Colombia) and Jimmy Anderson Martinez Ruano from UFRO (Chile)) and attend IJPB seminars by specialists in plant sciences.
In parallel, the students benefited from joint crosscutting activities through the intercultural and the theatre workshops, the session of preparation to personal professional project, and French lessons organized at AgroParisTech campus in Palaiseau.
Some students have also started the elective course “Cell factory design”, while the others have started the course “Genetic manipulation of plant resources”. It is the opportunity for them to deepen their knowledge in biotechnology concepts and lab technics, and interact with students from other curricula.
Overall, the beginning of the year has created a real group dynamic and allowed the students to dive to the heart of research projects.
Updated October 2025