Objective
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.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticultureviticulture
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomyplant protection
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesgeneticsDNA
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
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Participants (12)
1165 Kobenhavn
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CV4 8UW Coventry
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1900 La Plata
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33000 Bordeaux
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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55116 Mainz
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50009 Zaragoza
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75007 Paris Cedex 07
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1649 023 Lisboa
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1349 017 Lisboa
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
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Partners (8)
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2970 Hoersholm
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94607 Oakland Ca
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6845 Perth
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48103 Ann Arbor
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1900 La Plata
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B1876BXD Bernal
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0131 Tbilisi
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2080-110 Almeirim
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