The Living Lab

Name: Forum annuel du laboratoire vivant
Start: 2025-10-21
Location: Institut de recherche en biologie végétale

A structured space that brings together researchers, citizens, businesses, communities, and public institutions to create, test, document, and deploy innovative omics solutions in support of a strong, sustainable, and regenerative Quebec bioeconomy.

Foundations

Four guiding purposes

The living lab rests on four pillars that guide every action and every partnership.

Connecting science and the field

Bringing omics research into dialogue with the operational realities of the partner bioreactors.

Accelerating deployment

Building bridges between research, businesses, communities, and institutions to move from prototype to real-world use.

Documenting impacts

Measuring the environmental, techno-economic, and social outcomes of each initiative.

Accelerating deployment

Building bridges between research, businesses, communities, and institutions to move from prototype to real-world use.

Living lab

Annual Forum

Three questions at the heart of the discussions

On October 21, 2025, at the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, we explored together the central issues facing the living lab.

Possibilities and opportunities

What omics applications exist for treating organic residues, and what diagnostic capabilities and interventions are possible?

Conditions for success

What conditions are needed for deployment in Quebec in terms of education, data valorization, and cross-sector coordination?

Stakeholders to include

Which additional players should be engaged among government ministries, professional orders, agricultural federations, and science communicators?

Partners

The lab's bioreactors

Insects and proteins

An integrated reading of biological mechanisms, revealing the full set of molecular components within a system.

Cultivated mushrooms

Improving the efficiency, resilience, and predictability of biological processes, even under variable conditions.

Living compost

Identifying high-value molecules and functions to reduce losses and enhance outputs.

Omics

Research that
transforms

The living lab is built on rigorous research projects led by our teams. Discover how we study omics to unlock the potential of our partner bioreactors.

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