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 !

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.

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 ↩