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 !

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.

Metagenomic driven isolation of poorly culturable species in food

A new article entitled “Metagenomic driven isolation of poorly culturable species in food” from Caroline and Pierre has been published in Food microbiology journal¹.

Kothe et al. *Metagenomic driven isolation of poorly culturable species in food. Food Microbiology. 2025 ↩

6th scientific meeting of ANR metasimfood project in Strasbourg

On Tuesday 7th of January, the 7 partners gathered for the second time in Illkirch (close to Strasbourg) and were hosted by Aérial. The meeting was focused on the main advances carried out on the fermented vegetables food model with exiting results confirming the hypothesis postulated earlier in the project. Also, the evening before the meeting, Aérial organized a specific visit of the largest Sauerkraut producer in France, at a small village 30 km south of Strasbourg.