Dr Richard Poiré

I grew up in France and obtained an MSc in plant ecophysiology from University of Montpellier and worked at INRA modelling light interception, photosynthesis and biomass allocation in Arabidopsis and sunflower. In 2006, I worked as part of the CGIAR Generation Challenge to organise workshops and training in plant physiology techniques to scientists from emerging countries.

In 2010, I obtained a PhD from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany). I used time-lapse photography techniques and image analysis tools to study the diurnal effects of light and temperature on plant canopy growth on a range of plants.

In 2010, I first joined the APPF at CSIRO as a post-doc where I had the opportunity to hone my plant phenomics skills and gained expertise with a wide range of plant phenomics platforms. Over the years I have been involved in the design and development of various high throughput platforms (HTP) (eg TrayScan, GrowScreen-Fluoro). I used those tools to screen a large population of Brachypodium plants for their nitrogen and phosphorus growth response and use efficiency. As well as the impact on their photosynthetic performance.

In 2013, I worked at IRRI (Philippines) to provide plant phenomics training to a team of local scientists from the C4 rice project on the use of HTP.

In 2014, I joined the ANU at JCSMR and worked on 2 projects for Bayer and the GRDC. Those projects included the phenotypic validation of in-plant performance gain provided by reengineering of RuBisCO guided by computational chemistry predictions.

In 2017, I joined the APPF ANU to manage the day-to-day operations of the plant growth facility and Growth Capsules and facilitate access to plant phenotyping tools for the wider scientific community nationally and internationally. I am currently applying hyperspectral imaging combined with deep learning techniques to determine proxies for physiological measurements that would otherwise be impractical with traditional tools.

Outside of work, I am keen long-distance runner and enjoy working on various projects at the ANU Makerspace.