Julien Tap - Metagenomique et Biotechnologies

The next International Human Microbiome Congress (IHMC) organized by MetaHIT be held in Paris, 19-21 March 2012, at the Palais Brongniart. This conference is under the patronage of UNESCO and supported by the European Commission. This is the largest conference on the Human microbiome, the latest taking place in Shenzhen in 2010 and Vancouver in 2011.
Scientific exchanges will be around the analysis of the human microbiome, data organization and interpretation. Then, researchers will present their recent work about associations between the microbiome to human health and the potential to modulate it. Finally, the conference will end around a debate about the challenges of the future.

Personally, I invited you to pay attention on Iradj Sobhani's talk who will present our latest study about colon cancer microbiome and we could have a chat around the poster of Ling Chun Kong who will present our latest result about the gastric bypass effect on gut microbiota.

Join the conversation on twitter using the hashtag #IHMC2012.

To be read :

La métagénomique et les défis pour la bioinformatique au goût #IHMC2012 (French)

To be view :

IHMC Principal investigator interview in video

Danone Research, Institut Pasteur and INRA organized the 2nd international symposium on Microbes for Health (1st and 2nd of December 2011). This symposium focused on the latest findings in the area of gut microbiota and its role in human health and disease. Different expert in the fiels of Microbial gut ecology, systemic Immunity, metabolism and disease and Neuroscience will present their work in the Auditorium of Institut Pasteur (Paris, France).

This symposium was covered by Twitter users using the hashtag #MFH2011. A friendsfeed group is also available here : http://friendfeed.com/mfh2011.

The Microbes for Health 2011 program is available here : http://www.microbes-for-health.com/scientific-information/program

The discoverers of enterotypes launched a large scale project called my.microbes. Since Sept. 8, the project is open to anyone who wants to contribute. The study aims to analyze, through high throughput technologies and innovative bioinformatics tools, the microbiome of any person in the world. People can help by giving a sample and a donation.

Recording metadata with a questionnaire, the project aims to analyze up to 5,000 samples from individuals with diverses backgrounds. For each participant, the my.microbes team will provide a report with an enterotype analysis and a functional composition of their microbiota. Giving the global context, participant will be encouraged to share anonymously their data with others participants which have the same microbiome profile.

"Acting as both social network and DNA database, the website offers a place for people to share diet tips, stories and gastrointestinal woes with one another..." Natures news (08/09/2010)

• my.microbes website : http://my.microbes.eu/
  
• Nicola Jones. Social network wants to sequence your gut. Nature News. Published online 8 September 2011
• Arumugam, M. et al. Nature Advance online publication http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09944 (2011).
• L. Salters Notre flore intestinal a son réseau social published online 19 sept 2011