Projet MICROWINE (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2014)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : CLOSED

A diverse, complex, and poorly characterised community of microorganisms lies at the heart of the wine – an industry worth over €220 billion globally. These microorganisms play key roles at all stages of the viniculture and vinification processes, from helping plants access nutrients from the soil, driving their health through protection against pathogens, to fermentation processes that transform the must into wine with its complex array of aromas and flavours. Given this importance, an improved understanding of the microbial community and its interplay will have significant effects on the industry. In recent years, 'Next Generation' DNA sequencing has revolutionised many areas of biology, including microbiology, through conferring the ability to characterise microbes on the deep community scale, through both ’shotgun’ and ’deep amplicon’ sequencing approaches. To exploit this power for the benefit of the wine industry, we propose MICROWINE, a 15 ESR Marie Curie Actions European Training Network. The network is constructed as a close collaboration between industry and academic partners, around the theme of the microbial community’s role in the wine production process. Through combining microbial metagenomic sequencing with powerful computation analyses, with metadata generated using techniques such as metabolomics and geochemistry, we will study the action of microbes from the plant protection and nutrition, through to wine fermentation process, using samples collected from both Europe and beyond. We will further train the ESRs across a wide range of relevant disciplines, and maximise information transfer through multiple host and academic-industry cosupervision and secondments. In this way, we anticipate contributing to the strength and scientific progress of the wine industry through training of a cohort of leading, interdisciplinary and tightly interconnected scientists at the forefront of modern microbiological, genomic, computational and related techniques.

Mots clés : microbial communities, metagenomics, wine genetics and production

Participants :
- Universidad de Zaragoza (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 247872.96 €
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 262875.6 €
- Aarhus University (Danemark) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 580163.76 €
- National University of La Plata (Argentine) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 204096.6 €
- Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie, Ernährung und Forsten Rheinland Pfalz (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 249216.48 €
- Agrarian research and development center (Géorgie) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Bordeaux (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 262875.6 €
- University of Lisbon (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 238356.36 €
- Chr. Hansen (Denmark) (Danemark) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Screenwood, lda (Portugal) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of California System (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Biodiscovery, llc (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Copenhagen (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 580163.76 €
- Curtin University (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ansilta s.a. (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 262875.6 €
- Technical University of Denmark (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290081.88 €
- National University of Quilmes (Argentine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 255374.28 €
- University of Warwick (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 273287.88 €
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 238356.36 €