Each year, the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) launches an international call in order to finance new projects that run through the associated teams. This program aims at promoting and developing scientific collaborations between INRIAS's project-teams and excellent research teams throughout the world.
For 2011, the French Institut selects four new associate teams in Chile. One is the IntegrativeBioChile, composed by researchers from the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Mathematics of the Genome of CMM and the Symbiosis project-team at INRIA Rennes Center – Bretagne Atlantique. This team will be led by Anne Siegel (INRIA) and Alejandro Maass (CMM).
The selecions of the associate teams is done considering the scientific goals of each project as well as the exchange program and the quality of partners. In particular IntegrativeBioChile will work around mathematical and computational methods in order to explore and integrate heterogeneous biological data and be able to produce reliable interaction networks at regulatory and metabolic level.
The new associate team will be funded for a period of three years, receiving a contribution of 15.000 Euros per year for 2011 and 2012 and 10. 000 Euros for 2013. The partnership has a term of three years, but there is a possibility to renew for the same period.
In addition of the four new associated teams in Chile for 2011, INRIA is funding 6 projects in our country. Apart from IntegrativeBioChile, there is another group in which researchers of CMM participate. It is the associate teams MERE, leading in Chile by Héctor Ramírez, the group works on the “Modeling, analysis and simulation of microbial ecosystems and natural resources.” In it, scientists from the University Federico Santa Maria, Catholic University and researchers from four institutions in France are part of this team.
INRIA associate teams' program team aims at contributing to exchange between France and the partner countrym for researchers, engineers, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, as well as the organization of joint workshops.
