Stephane Mari is an INRAE Research Director (DR2), principal investigator and deputy director of the IPSiM department. S. Mari has been working for more than twenty years on the biology of metals and he has focused on Fe homeostasis in plants for almost 20 years. His specificity in the field of Fe biology is to use inter-disciplinary approaches, mostly through collaborations with analytical chemists, to analyze in depth specific questions regarding the speciation of Fe (ie the ligands involved in its complexation and transport) and the regulation of subcellular distribution. S. Mari is the author of 43 peer-reviewed articles (> 2300 citations, H-index = 19). S. Mari has coordinated several national research grants including 2 ANR projects (“SUBCELIF” project about subcellular iron distribution in plants, chemical speciation and new functions; “ISISTOR” project about improving seed iron storage) and 1 Flagship project from Agropolis Fondation (“CalClim” project, about the responses of plants to calcareous soils in the context of climate change).
