What’s the future on human Microbiome Research?

Published: Feb 29, 2024 by FME Lab

The final conference of the Human Microbiome Action coordinated by Joël Doré, Emmanuelle Maguin and Mani Arumugam took place in Brussels at les Ateliers des Tanneurs on the 29th of February. A lot of very interesting talks summarizing the state of the art in Human microbiome research meanwhile paving the ground on policies for safeguarding public health.

Stéphane Chaillou (INRAE), as coordinator of #DominoEU project, participated in the last panel discussion “Where Will Microbiome Research Lead Us? Vision and Roadmap for Future Endeavours” together with Tanja Kostic (#MicrobiomeSupport Association; Austrian Institute of Technology), Carolina Alves Costa Silva (#ONCOBIOME; Gustave Roussy), Federica Carraturo (#GEMMA; University of Naples), and Stephan Kampshoff (Eufic) as moderator. Following a very interesting overview given by Emmanuelle Maguin on “Identifying the Most Pressing Research Questions for Future Studies » ; We gave and discussed with the audience our views on specific research opportunities concerning the link between healthy microbiomes and diet or diseases.

A specific great snapshop from #DominoEU colleagues (Emmanuelle, Debora and Dascha) as #microbiome ambassadors !

Focus on Microbial Ecology Modelling at the NEM days meeting in Rennes

The French NEM (Nutrition & Microbial Ecosystems) network hold its annual meeting this last two days (5th – 6th of May) in Rennes. Julien Tap, researcher from the FME lab presented the first results of his Ferment du Future SynthPlex project and how Engineering food microbial consortia can be performed using microfermentors to reveal strain epistasis. With the Support of Holoflux and Digit-Bio INRAE Metaprogram, He also co-organized with Guillaume Gautreau from the MaIAge Unit a specific workshop on modelling of microbial ecosystems.

Lovely second annual meeting of DOMINO project in Cork, Ireland

The DOMINO project held its second annual meeting from 26 to 28 March in the picturesque city of Cork, Ireland. It was an intense and warm moment thanks to the efficient and very friendly organisation of Teagasc and its incredible team coordinated by Orla O’Sullivan and John Kenny.

Health promoting effects of Fermented Foods was the highlight at 2nd Forum on Fermented Foods in Malaga

#DominoEU researchers participated significantly to this amazing conference organised by the COST Pimento. Paul Cotter, Orla O’Sullivan, Jekaterina Kansatseva, Bastien Renard, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Luca Cocolin, Kelly Rantsiou and Tanja Kostic gave talks.