Joël Doré on the human-microbes symbiosis

On 3 September 2024, the NCCR Microbiomes Seminar Series is excited to host Joël Doré, from the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE).

Joël Doré is research director in the Joint Research Unit for Food and Gut Microbiology for Human Health and scientific director of the MetaGenoPolis, a platform for quantitative and functional metagenomics. Dr. Doré is also the scientific coordinator of “Le French Gut” project, the French contribution to “The Million Microbiome of Humans Project”, as well as scientific advisor and co-founder of MaaT Pharma, a start-up that aims to restore man-microbe symbiosis in treatment-related dysbiosis.

Joël Doré received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. In 2010, he became one of five deputy directors of the Joint Research Unit for Food and Gut Microbiology, overseen by INRA and AgroParisTech, and in 2012 he became the scientific director of the newly created MetaGenoPolis platform. From 2021 to 2024, he was Project Coordinator of the EU-funded Human Microbiome Action, which aimed to foster research and knowledge transfer in the microbiome field. His main research interest is the molecular assessment of the human intestinal microbiota in health and disease and the metagenomic investigation of the cross-talk between intestinal bacteria and human cells. He aims to contribute to a better understanding of the intestinal microbial ecosystem in order to support effective, science-based therapeutic approaches in medicine and nutrition.

In 2016, Joël Doré was awarded the Dupont Nutrition and Health Medal of Excellence for his work on the intestinal microbiota and its role in certain chronic diseases, and in 2017 he received the INRAE Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to the field of the gut microbiome.

Dr. Doré will give a talk entitled ‘The human-microbes symbiosis: a target for prevention and therapy’. The seminar will take place on 3 September 2024, from 12h00 to 13h00 CEST. You can access this public seminar through this Zoom link.