UMR 1309 - Animal, health, territories, risks and ecosystems (ASTRE)

ASTRE's work aims to improve animal health for food security and public health in the South, particularly in the context of global changes and transitions in socio-ecosystems.
The unit aims to provide solutions to sanitary constraints related to animal, domestic and wild production, and to the Man - Animal - Environment interface. It studies health within evolving socio-ecosystems and provides tools to better understand, monitor and manage it. The unit develops research on animal and zoonotic diseases of economic and health importance for countries in the South, some of which threaten countries in the North.

The scientific project of the unit is articulated around 4 research axes
Characterization of pathosystems and episystems at the organism/individual and population levels
Integration of organisms and populations into the socio-ecosystem
Surveillance: innovation & evaluation and health networks
Control tools and strategies, collective actions


Key figures :

ASTRE has around 100 permanent staff, two thirds of whom are scientific executives (researchers and engineers) and one third are technicians, collaborators and supervisors. It also welcomes about twenty doctoral and post-doctoral students.

Doctoral school(s)
DS 584 - Biodiversity, agriculture, food, environment, earth, water
Co-accredited institutions : AgroParisTech, L'Institut Agro Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, Ecole des Mines d'Alès