Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès

marie-christine.champomier-verges[at]jouy.inra.fr

+ 33 1 34 65 22 92

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Marie, has developed research projects on Microbiology of food since her PhD obtained at Clermont Ferrand University (1989) and earned a HDR (Université Paris Sud,2001). Head of team at Micalis since 2010, she developed research towards microbial ecology of meat products and then fermented foods. Since 2019, she is deputy head of the INRAE, MICA division (microbiology and the food chain). Since 2015, she conducted scientific steering at INRAE for the development a public-private consortium structure on fermented foods which was achieved in 2022 through the Grand Défi ferments du futur (France 2030 Project).

Main recent projects

• CSA Microbiome support (2018-2022)

• COST Action CA20128 PIMENTO Promoting innovation of fermented foods

• DOMINO Harnessing the microbial potential of fermented foods for healthy and sustainable food systems.

• MetaSimfood ANR project 2022-2025 Improving the quality, safety and sustainability of fermented vegetable food and fruit beverage using a knowledge-driven synthetic ecology and modelling approach.

Some commitments

• Scientific director at executive comittee of Grand Défi ferments du futur
• Member of steering comittee Metaprogramme CLIMAE
• Representing INRAE, Graduate School Biosphera council