A seed meeting between INRAE Micalis Institute and Imperial College London

Published: Oct 3, 2025 by FME Lab

Last week on October 3rd, scientists from Imperial College London (ICL) and from INRAE Micalis Institute were hosted by the French embassy in London for a seed meeting around synthetic biology and synthetic microbial ecology as scientific strategies for biotechnology and food production. A special thanks to the organizer: Ludovic Drouin (French Embassy), Young-Kyoung Park (Micalis) and Rodriguo Ledesma-Amaro (ICL). Our several groups with complementary research discussed about perspectives of future collaborations on the field together with Ferment du Futur or Bezos Centre.

A special thanks

Food Microbial Ecology team (Stéphane Chaillou, Julien Tap, Marie Champomier-Vergès), Cosynus team (Young-Kyoung Park, Tritan Rossignol) from Micalis, Ferments du Futur (Damien Paineau), ICL Bioengineering department (Rodriguo Ledesma-Amaro, José Jimenz), ICL synthetic Biology department (Geoff Baldwin), ICL nutrition department (Gary Frost) and Bezos centre for sustainable proteins (Yvonne McMeel).

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