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Fourth scientific meeting of ANR metasimfood project in Rennes
Fourth scientific meeting of ANR metasimfood project in Rennes

This time, the 7 partners gathered in Rennes this Tuesday 12th of December and were hosted by STLO at the Institut Agro.

Workshop for Domino living-labs
Workshop for Domino living-labs

A workshop for #DominoEU living-labs (LL) was held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) on thursday 30th of november and friday 1st of December.

Advancing Microbiome Research: Insights from the 4th Polepharma Microbiomics Days
Advancing Microbiome Research: Insights from the 4th Polepharma Microbiomics Days

The 4th edition of the Polepharma Microbiomics Days, presided over by Professor Pierre Dechelotte, Head of Nutrition at CHU de Rouen Normandie and part of the Inserm – University of Rouen Normandie Unit, recently concluded at the Kindarena in Rouen.

#Microbes4SustainableFoods cluster at the EFFoST conference in Valencia
#Microbes4SustainableFoods cluster at the EFFoST conference in Valencia

Stéphane participated to the #EFFOST2023 conference in Valencia (6th to 8th of November) during which a specific session an EU project was planned.

Key Takeaways from NutrEvent 2023 Rennes Participation
Key Takeaways from NutrEvent 2023 Rennes Participation

Marie and Julien participated in the NutrEvent held in Rennes on the 17th and 18th of October.

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FME at Bioket 2026 advancing synthetic microbial ecology for sustainable food
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
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
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.

  1. 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