DOMINO has kicked off March 27th in Paris by Stéphane Chaillou as coordinator.
DOMINO kick-off!
Ferments du futur at SIA 2023
“Grand Défi Ferments du Futur” Day at the agriculture showcase was a great opportunity for experts in the field to come together and discuss their work. One of the highlights of the day was a roundtable discussion on the INRAE stand, which featured the Food Microbial Ecology team.
1st annual meeting of metasimfood project.
The 1st annual meeting of metasimfood project took place in Strasbourg last thursday 12th of january. Follow the news using our project website.
COST PIMENTO 2022 workshop
PIMENTO CA20128 is a project focusing on the cartography, scientific evidence database and innovative challenges in the field of fermented foods (read more at cost.eu)
Biosphera Scientific Days: first edition
The first Biosphera Scientific Days were held on October 13 and 14, 2022 on the Campus Agro Paris-Saclay. Dedicated to the launch of its eight thematic programs with scientific presentations and workshops led by the coordinators of these programs (Stéphane from FME & Ariane Bize from PROSE Unit presented the coordination of the Microorganisms program).
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FME at Bioket 2026 advancing synthetic microbial ecology for sustainable food
At the BIOKET (Bioeconomy Key Enabling Technologies) conference in Fribourg, Julien presented recent advances from the SynthPlex project, positioning synthetic microbial ecology as a core tool for next-generation fermented foods.
cFMD workshop in Trento
Last February 23-24th 2026, at University of Trento, a workshop was organized by the CIBIO (Nicola Segata’s lab) for #DominoEU partners. The workshop aimed at learning to query & analyse data from the Curated Food Microbiome Database (cFMD). Thanks to the very efficient and skilled teaching team (vitor Heidrich, Hrituraj Dey, Francesco aniscar, Sergio Andrés Castañeda Garzon) and for the incredible hospitality of Frederica Pinto and Nicola Segata.
From food spontaneous fermentations to food designed consortia
Our new article entitled “Microbiome metabolic modeling as a tool for innovation in fermented foods” has been published in in Current Opinion of Food Science1.
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Elham Karimi, Julien Tap, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, Stéphane Chaillou. Microbiome metabolic modeling as a tool for innovation in fermented foods. Current Opinion of Food Science. 2025 ↩