Virgile GUENEAU

Instead of eliminating biofilms, couldn’t we take advantage of them? I am currently conducting research on the concept of positive biofilms as part of a scientific collaboration between Lallemand Animal Nutrition company and the Micalis Institute. The objective of this partnership is to develop microbial solutions aimed at modulating the microbial ecology of surfaces by […]

Aurélie BALVAY

Aurélie Balvay is an engineer with a Master’s degree in physiology and neuroscience, specializing in animal bio-experimentation. After a year as animal facility technical manager at Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS, Université Paris-Cité), Aurélie Balvay joined the Micalis Institute in 2015 as operational manager of the Anaxem germ-free animal facility. She is currently a member of […]

Véronique DOUARD

Véronique has been a senior researcher in the team “Food, Gut Microbiota, Brain, and Metabolic Diseases” since 2017. She has been studying the impact of dietary sugars on metabolic disorders and intestinal physiology for over 15 years. After completing her PhD (2001) on the role of lipids in reproduction, she undertook postdoctoral research and later […]

Philippe GERARD

Philippe Gérard is Director of Research and is Head of the research team “Food, Gut Microbiota, Metabolic and Brain Diseases” (AMIPEM) at the MICALIS Institute from 2010. His research focuses primarily on the role of the gut microbiota in metabolic diseases (obesity, diabetes, liver diseases) using germfree animal models and gut microbiota transplant strategies. Since […]

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