Dear all,

Please find below a description of the interdisciplinary colloquium
« New Challenges Induced by Microbiomes » (REVMICNAT6) (funded
by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) via
the GDR REVMICNAT : https://www.sb-roscoff.fr/fr/revmicnat and
https://www.sb-roscoff.fr/en/revmicnat).

Anyone is invited to attend. Feel very free to advertise by forwarding
this email to anyone you may think would be interested.

The GDR REVMICNAT offers to contribute (partially or fully) to one more
contributed talk : if you have something you would like to share with us
about microbiomes, and you would like your talk to be selected, please
simply email a title and an abstract to : epbapteste@gmail.com before
November 10th 2025.

The event is free, hybrid (attendees can join either in person or
virtually) but upon registration by email before November 28th to :
epbapteste@gmail.com. When emailing, please let me know whether you would
prefer to attend virtually or in person (40 seats, on a first serve,
first come basis).

It will take place within the University Jussieu, Jussieu Campus, on
December 12th 2025.

Kind regards,

Eric Bapteste and Fabrice Not.

Provisional program :

9:00-9:05: A few welcome words.  Dr. E. Bapteste (CNRS, ISYEB, Paris,
France)

9:06-9:26: Today's Biology: Soil microbiota and sustainability.  Pr.
Marc-André Sélosse (MNHN, France)

9:27-9:47: Today's Biology: TBD. Dr. Catherine Larose (CNRS-Université
Grenoble Alpes, France)

9:48-10:08: Today's Biology: Microbiomes myths and
misconceptions. Dr. Alan Walker (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)

10:09-10:29: Today's Biophysics: The physiology of microbial
interactions: new lessons from considerations on microbial dispersal
and diet preferences. Dr. Johannes Keegstra (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

10:30-10:50: Today's Biology: Environmental microbiome resilience and
climate change. Dr. Ashley Shade (CNRS, Ampère, CNRS/Ecole Centrale de
Lyon/INSA Lyon/Université Claude Bernard, France)

10:55-11:15: Sustainable food : Microbial solutions for global
challenges.  Dr. Joshua Evans (Sustainable Food Innovation Center for
Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

11:16-11:36: Ethnology :  Ethnology of microbiomes in cheese. Dr. Élise
Demeulenaere (Centre Alexandre Koyré, UMR 8560 CNRS - Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle,
Aubervilliers, France)

11:37-11:57: Sports: The role of microbiomes in athletic performance. Dr.
Jeremy Koenig (Halifax, Canada)

13:30-13:50: Art: Museology and microbiomes. Dr. Adam Bencard (University
of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Medical Museion and CBMR,
Denmark)

13:51-14:11: Diffusion: Microbiomes and citizen sciences. Pr. Rob Dunn
(Department of Applied Ecology, NC State University, USA)

14:12-14:32: Architecture: Architecture and microbiomes. Dr. Cédric
Libert (MArch AA School of Architecture London, UK) & Dr. Francesca
Guerrieri (Centre Recherche sur le Cancer, Lyon, France)

14:33-14:53:  Semiotics: Semiotics and microbiomes. Pr. Jocelyne
Arqembourg (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France)

14:54-15:14:  Today's Biology: Evolution of microbiomes. Dr. Rafael
Ponce-Toledo (Sorbonne-Université, France)

15:15-15:35: Tomorrow's Biology: Microbiomes and mining. Dr. Laura Hug (U.
Waterloo, Canada)

15:40-16:00: Art: Microbiomes and art. Pr. François-Joseph Lapointe
(Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada)

16:01-16:21: Tomorrow's Biology: Principles underlying cross-kingdom
molecular connections. Dr. Rebecka Sepela (Department of Molecular and
Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)

Dr. Eric Bapteste
Department of Computational and Quantitative Biology, UMR 7238 Sorbonne
Université-CNRS, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Building A - 4th floor, room
427, 4, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris France -

*Nouveaux livres* pour enfants et curieux:  (*Collection: les Petits
Darwin*)
*"Qui vit le plus longtemps?" (Collection les Petits Darwin, Amazon)*
"Le monde surprenant des microbes: virus, bactéries, archées (2ème
édition)(Collection: les Petits Darwin, Amazon)
"Tout se transforme! Comment marche l'évolution" (2ème édition
(Collection: les Petits Darwin, Amazon)

Livres pour adultes:
*"La Vie élastique. Révolutions dans le vieillissement?" (Belin, 2025)*
"Tous entrelacés! Des gènes aux super-organismes, les réseaux de
l'évolution" (Belin)
"Les gènes voyageurs: l'odyssée de l'évolution" (Belin)
"Conflits intérieurs: fable scientifique" (Editions Matériologiques)

Bapteste Eric <epbapteste@gmail.com>

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