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PLANT SCIENCE ENGINEERING 2006, July 19   The three missions of the University Botanical Garden     This year, the one-time Regional Observatory of Plant Heritage (Poitiers University) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Several novel attractions stand a chance of transforming the Deffend site into a magnet for visitors. Did you know it? The brand-new University Botanical Garden (JBU, in French) – vintage 2005 – houses some of the territory’s finest herbariums. And it also features another, similarly astounding collection of medicinal plants of use to students in the Faculty of Medicine. “In this area, students do not simply work with molecules. Ours is one of the last universities in France to harbor such a collection”, notes Lionel Vinour, the administrative and financial manager of Poitiers University’s Real Estate Heritage Office. Within this 82-acre site, there quite simply exist an unbelievable number of remarkable “species”. Remarkable and remarked? Lionel Vinour admits that Poitiers University took some time prior to endowing the Deffend with a genuine purpose. “As of now, the botanical garden is congruent with the three missions of the University: teaching, research and valorization of scientific activities”, adds the man in charge. Even though, from a teaching standpoint, just the doctors of the future will be heading for Mignaloux Beauvoir, researchers have already all but invested the premises. A request for accreditation One example? For several years, the “Rés’eaux” (water network) (*) has been availing itself of the Deffend site as a tool in the framework of its hydrogeological research. In terms of the aforementioned valorization (or validation), Lionel Vinour has announced “more considerable labeling of the collections” along with the setting up of honest-to-goodness pathways for pedestrians and cyclists. What is more, the University Botanical Garden has filed a request for accreditation with the “Jardins botaniques de France”. Were this request to be granted, the Poitiers site would most likely become better known on a regionwide scale. This would help, even if schoolchildren are already flocking to discover an authentic plant museum (there were 1500 such visits in May 2006 alone). For the rest of us, the facilities will open on September 16th and 17th in the context of these two nationwide “heritage days”. It is at that time that the JBU will blow out its ten candles … and is likely to surprise many a curiosity seeker. (*) Piloted by Gilles Porel, associate professor at the Science Faculty http://www.univ-poitiers.fr The Biopole en masse at Eurobio 2008 Read ...   Water information days (September 23 – September 25) Read ...   The rose and its genetic transformation Read ...   Christian Huyghe aims for “excellence” read...   Creating “medical branches” read...   A neuro-cardio-vascular pole is taking root read...   Valagro on the horticulture market read...   ERM, the winning spin-off read...   GMOs under debate in Poitiers read...   Isabelle Cameleyre, new representative read...   Cystic fibrosis: The molecule of hope read...   Irfaq, a manufacturer of innovations read...   CHU: State-of-the-art quality read...   Soil organic matter under examination read...   Parexel: The Cap provides its support read...   Philippe Michonneau: “The Biopole, fertile soil” read...   Painless monitoring of hepatitis read...   The Biopole structured as an association read...   Futuramat steps up the pace read...   Technova, or life in 3D read...   B Braun burnishes its image read...   Proteomics platform: The CHU strides ahead read...   The three missions of the University Botanical Garden read...   Clinsight in the big leagues read...   Natural energies for an autonomous building read...   Aster-Cephac turns into SGS Cephac read...   The previously unseen heart read...   BIOalternatives diversifies its markets read...   Two Poitiers-based projects awarded read...   IUT pores over biofuels read...   Poitiers, the biotechnology capital read...   PAREXEL wagers on the human factor read...   Saunier and associates wish to diversify read...   Biocydex and BioXtract move forward hand in hand read...   The grass of champions read...   Ianesco steadfastly believes in its future read...   A tumorotheque, what is the purpose it serves? read...   TechnAvOx has turned the corner read...   Larime is aiming for 40 beds in Poitiers read...   Poitiers is out to promote its research read...   A true Biopole milestone read...   A regional cancerology pole in the pipeline for 2007 read...   Nobel prize winners in Poitiers read...   A platform offering numerous advantages read...   @rtMolecule fashions in its own way read...   It’s plastic, it’s fantastic read...   The Poitiers hospital (CHU) stakes its claim read...   BIOalternatives exports its know-how read...   The physiological and computer science engineering program turns 30 read...   The Biopole takes center stage at Investiga read...           Legal mentions