The first International Jacques Monod conference took place recently in Roscoff (Bretagne) from 7 to 11 December. This conference co-organized by INRA, CNRS and Labex ARBRE was titled « Bacterial-fungal interactions: a federative field for fundamental and applied microbiology »
No fewer than 77 scientists of 15 different nationalities (France, Europe, United States, Mexico, Sri Lanka) gathered to learn more about the wide cross-sectoral nature of this area of research which is rapidly gaining momentum. Representing a wide cross-section of research fields (Agronomy-Forestry, Ecology and Environmental Protection, Agri-Food / Food Processing, Medicine, Modeling Systems, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology and Cultural Heritage), these researchers in turn discussed their most recent results relevant to ecology, the molecular mechanisms of bacteria-fungal interactions and their applications and implications in all areas combined. The dynamics created by this conference led participants to a program a similar event for 2016-2017 and to formalize the development of an international network of laboratories working on this theme. This network is open to any and all laboratories interested (for more information, please contact A. Deveau – deveau@nancy.inra.fr).
The conference program is available on the following link :
http://www.cnrs.fr/insb/cjm/archives/2013/cjmprog.html
To read more, please click here for the conference introduction slide presentation
