France
Frédérique Chaucheyras-Durand holds a MSc in Molecular Biology and Applied Immunology and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France. She is currently the Head of the Rumen Center of Excellence (RCE) of Lallemand Animal Nutrition (LAN), based at INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture and Environment), of Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The RCE is a research team composed by 2 scientists, one research engineer and one research assistant, working mainly on rumen and gut microbiota, ruminant digestion and health, food safety, and LAN associated solutions, such as live yeast and bacteria, or microbial fractions.
The strong partnership with INRAE started more than 25 years ago and the MEDIS laboratory (i.e., Microbiota, Digestive Environment and Health) where the research team of Lallemand is settled is one of the most internationally known laboratories working on gut microbiota of humans and animals. For her research, Dr Chaucheyras-Durand and her team benefit from their collaboration with INRAE by having access to various equipments to study rumen / gut microbiota, such as in vitro models mimicking rumen or gut environment, anaerobic microbiology techniques, animal or human culture cell lines or molecular ecology techniques (quantitative PCR, RT-qPCR or next generation sequencing methods) as well as in vivo models (rodents or ruminants) as well as producing cattle and sheep.
Dr Frédérique Chaucheyras–Durand is author or co-author of more than 50 original publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, book chapters, reviews, and of many invited talks, oral communications, or posters in international meetings. She is, since 2016, member of the Advisory Board of the international Beneficial Microbes Conference, held in Amsterdam every 2 years, and since 2020, member of the Scientific Committee of the Engineering School of Purpan (Toulouse, France), and member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the EU research project HoloRuminant.