Fourth scientific meeting of ANR metasimfood project in Rennes

Published: Dec 12, 2023 by FME Lab

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

After two years dedicated to prepare the food models for synthetic ecology (Wine and fermented vegetables), the project is now entering into the most exiting (but challenging) part dedicated to the screening of environmental factors and the design of microbial consortia. The project is now ready for integrating many omics data for ecological network modelling. Thanks to Florence Valence for hosting us and for managing the nice diner at crêperie l’épi de blé. We had lively discussions following the presentation of Elham Karimi on genome-scale modelling, minimal community design, key species, and the presentation of Mahendra Maraidassou on fractional factorial design and response surface modelling. The metasimfood project is truly inter-disciplinary, and is taking our teams into a new era of food microbiology.

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(#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.