MicrobiomeSupport integrates many experts representing different stakeholder groups (i.e. scientific community, industry, funding organisations and policy sector), which are grouped in three Advisory Groups (AGs). The members of these AGs are not full project partners but will be asked for input and invited to events, workshops and discussions as required.
- The AG ‘Coordinators’ Platform’ brings together coordinators of completed and ongoing EU projects with a focus on microbiome research.
- The ‘Funding and Policy Advisory Group’ includes representatives from funding institutions, ministries, government representatives and bioeconomy experts.
- The ‘Industry Advisory Group’ comprises representatives from the agro-food industry, biotech companies, technology providers and pharmaceutical companies active in the converging area of food for health.
The main role of the AGs is to support the MicrobiomeSupport network and its activities by contributing with their expertise and disseminating results. In particular, the AGs will be asked to provide feedback on questions from the General Assembly and thereby support decision making. Furthermore, members of the AGs will be invited to various relevant activities; for instance, members of the ‘Coordinators’ Platform’ will be invited to mapping activities, members of the ‘Funding and Policy Advisory Group’ will be invited to mapping activities and workshop defining policy needs, members of the ‘Industry Advisory Group’ will be invited to workshops defining and elaborating industry needs. Active involvement of the AGs in the project will also facilitate knowledge exchange and enable collaboration across different stakeholder groups.
AGs members also act as MicrobiomeSupport ambassadors relaying the messages of the MicrobiomeSupport network through their networks and thus ensuring broad outreach.
| Name | Affiliation | Country | Project |
| ANESIO Alexandre | UK | Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments | |
| BOSCIA Donata | POnTE | IT | Pest Organisms Threatening Europe |
| COCOLIN Luca | IT | Study of the Listeria monocytogenes gene expression profile in ready-to-eat foods of animal origin by the application of the omics and the bioinformatics/biostatistics disciplines | |
| COLLINGE David | Bestpass | DK | Boosting plant-endophyte stability, compatibility and performance across scales |
| DE WITTE Peter | BE | Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline | |
| DECLERCK Stéphane | PHARMASEA | BE | Valorizing Andean microbial diversity through sustainable intensification of potato-based farming systems |
| DORRESTEIN Pieter | US | Exploring the Impact of Pesticide on the 3D Metabolome and the Microbiota from the Whole Plant to the Cell Scale | |
| HINSINGER Philippe | SoIACE | FR | Solutions for improving Agroecosystem and Crop Efficiency for water and nutrient use |
| HOFKENS Johan | METAMAPPER/FLUOROCODE | BE | Super-resolution genomic mapping for the microbiome |
| JURKEVITCH Edouard | MISAFE | IL | The Development and Validation of Microbial Soil Community Analyses for Forensics Purposes |
| KINKEL Linda | US project | US | Agricultural Microbiomes Research Coordination Network |
| KOPRIVA Stanislav | PINBAC | DE | Characterising plant interactions with bacteria that promote the uptake of nitrogen and sulphur from organic sources |
| LEICHERT Lars | FUME | DE | Functional Metagenomics – Harnessing the Biotechnological Potential of Completely Novel Protein Families |
| LEULIER Francois | MutFlyGutBact | FR | Host-intestinal bacteria mutualism: “Learning on the fly” |
| LLEWELLYN Martin | FISHPROBIO | UK | Metacommunity dynamics of the fish surface microbiome in health and disease: pathogens and probiotics |
| LUDGATE Marian | INDIGO | UK | Investigation of Novel biomarkers and Definition of the role of the microbiome In Graves’ Orbitopathy |
| McNEIL Brian | SEABIOTECH | UK | From sea-bed to test-bed: harvesting the potential of marine microbes for industrial biotechnology |
| MORGAVI Diego | MarkEfficiency | FR | Digestive and nutritional indicators of feed efficiency in cattle fed forage-based diets |
| MOSER Andreas | rtd Services | AT | Safe Food for Europe – Coordination of research activities and Dissemination of research results of EC funded research on food safety |
| NEUMANN Günter | BIOFECTOR | DE | Resource Preservation by Application of Bioeffectors in European Crop Production |
| NOTHIAS Louis-Felix | 3D-Plant2Cells | US | Exploring the Impact of Pesticide on the 3D Metabolome and the Microbiota from the Whole Plant to the Cell Scale |
| O’CONNELL Niamh | ECO-FCE | UK | A whole-systems approach to optimising feed efficiency and reducing the ecological footprint of monogastrics |
| OHNMACHT Caspar | ALLERGUT | DE | Mucosal Tolerance and Allergic Predisposition: Does it all start in the gut? |
| ROMANI Luigiana | FUNMETA | IT | Metabolomics of fungal diseases: a systems biology approach for biomarkers discovery and therapy |
| ROSENSTIEL Philip | SYSCID | DE | A Systems medicine approach to chronic inflammatory disease |
| SALVI Mario | IT | Exploiting research and application potential of the human microbiome for prediction, prevention and treatment of disease | |
| SANZ Yolanda | MyNewGut | ES | My New Gut |
| SESSITSCH Angela | AIT | AT | Microbial enhancement of bioactive secondary metabolite production in plants |
| SHANAHAN Fergus | APEX | IE | APC Postdoctoral EXcellence Programme |
| SØRENSEN Søren | TRAINBIODIVERSE | DK | Trainbiodiverse – Soil microbiology and ecosystem services |
| TSAKALIDOU Effie | GR | Table olive fermentation with selected strains of probiotic lactic acid bacteria. Towards a new functional food | |
| VAN ELSAS Jan Dirk | NL | Metagenomics for bioexploration – Tools and application | |
| VAN ERK Marjan | NL | ‘Phenotypic Flexibility as a biomarker of health’ | |
| VORHOLT Julia | PhyMo | CH | Structure function relationships of the phyllosphere microbiota |
| WAGNER Martin | AT | Protection of consumers by microbial risk mitigation through combating segregation of expertise | |
| WAGNER Martin | AT | Tracking bugs in the food chain | |
| WILLEMS Rob | EVOTAR | NL | Evolution and Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance |
| Institution | Country | Name |
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | CA | Benoit GIRARD |
| Alexandra Malyska | BE | |
| Austrian Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism (previously BMLFUW) | AT | Gottfried LAMERS |
| Austrian Microbiome Initiative | AT | |
| Austrian Research Promotion Agency | AT | |
| Beijing Genomics Institute | CN | Zewei Song |
| Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA) | IT | |
| Danish Ministry of Education and Research | DK | |
| Department of Agriculture, Food & Marine | IE | Liam Finnegan |
| Directorate for International Scientific and Technological Cooperation at the General Secretariat for Research and Technology | GR | |
| ELIXIR | EU | Rob FINN |
| EMBL-EBI | DE | |
| Estonian Research Council | EE | Argo SOON |
| ETP Food for Life | EU | |
| European Plant Science Organization | EU | Karin METZLAFF |
| Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) | ES | |
| IAR – The French Bioeconomy Cluster | FR | Antoine PEETERS |
| INRA / representative of Standing Committee on Agricultural Research WG Food Systems | FR / EU | |
| JPI HDHL – A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life | EU | |
| JPI Ocean | EU | Tom Redd |
| JPI Ocean | EU | Jacky WOOD |
| JPI on Antimicrobial Resistance | EU | Laura Plant |
| Leibniz-Institut DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures | DE | Jörg OVERMANN |
| Leibniz-Institut DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures | DE | Sixing HUANG |
| Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l’innovation | FR | Michel BECKERT |
| National Centre for Research & Development | PL | |
| National Centre for Scientific Research | FR | |
| National Research Council | IT | |
| Projektträger Jülich | DE | |
| Regione Piemonte | IT | |
| Science Foundation Ireland | IE | |
| UK Microbiology Society | UK | Julian MARCHESI |
| Company | Country | Microbiome/Bio-Economy-Related Activities |
| AgBiome | US | Plant microbiome applications, plant biotechnology |
| ApheaBio | BE | Agricultural biologicals |
| Bayer Crop Sciences | DE / international | Crop protection; plant biotechnology |
| BIOCERES | AR | Provider of crop productivity solutions, including seeds, seed traits, seed treatments, biologicals, high-value adjuvants and fertilizers |
| Biofortis Merieux NutriScience | FR / Int. | Test and consultancy services to food and nutrition industries |
| Biraghi S.p.A. | IT | Food / cheese producer |
| Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) | BR | Biological solutions |
| Cargill | US / international | Major food and feed producer; renewable resources; bioenergy |
| Chr. Hansen | DK | Natural solutions for the food, beverage, nutritional, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries; supplier of food cultures, probiotics, enzymes and natural colors |
| Converte Pty Ltd. | UK | Biologicals for agriculture |
| Cultech Ltd. | UK | Health supplements |
| Danone | FR / international | Major food producer |
| Erber Group | AT / international | Food and feed safety, focusing on natural feed additives, feed and food analysis, plant protection |
| ETP Plants for the Future | EU | European Technology Platform |
| Eurofins Biomnis | FR / int. | Diagnostics company |
| Evogene | IL | Plant biotechnology; biologicals for agriculture; human microbiomes |
| IBM Research / Informatics | USA | Founder of the consortium sequencing the food supply chain |
| Indigo Ag | US | Plant microbiome applications |
| INRA Tranfert | FR | Technology Transfer and project engineering company |
| International Phytobiomes Alliance | US / international | International association representing major ag-companies |
| Johnson&Johnson Consumer Products | UK | Healthy & high quality consumer / beauty products |
| Koppert B.V. | NL | Plant microbiome applications |
| Novozymes | DK / international | Industrial enzymes, microorganisms, biopharmaceutical ingredients; biological solutions in agriculture |
| Pharmabiotic Research Institute (PRI) | FR / international | The PRI is a European non-profit organization focused on Microbiotic Medicinal Products |
| Unilever | NL / UK / international | Major food producer |