Proposal for a 6-month internship in 2022 (Master 2 degree): Integrated analyses of NMR spectra to model the feto-maternal crosstalk at the end of gestation in pigs
Lab: INRAE GenPhySE lab in Castanet Tolosan: GenPhySE website
Team : GenoRobust
Supervisors : Cécile Bonnefont Agnès Bonnet
Context: CO-LOcATION project (funding: ANR)
The CO-LOcATIOn project aims to answer the following question: how do the maternal and fetal genomes affect the metabolism and the gene expression to drive fetal maturity?
The feto-maternal crosstalk associated to fetal maturity are explored, using an integrative omics approach (metabolome, lipidome and transcriptome) and by simultaneously questioning the two adjacent tissues (placenta/endometrium) that are players of feto-maternal interactions.
The fetuses were already sampled at 2 dates of gestation (90 vs 110 days of gestation), from sows of 2 genotypes: Meishan (MS) or Large White (LW) mated with boars of the 2 genotypes (MS and LW). The neonatal piglet mortality is known to be lower in MS breed than in LW breed. Around 20 phenotypes were registered on all fetuses and the fetuses were split into 3 maturity status.