MICROWINE - Microbial metagenomics and the modern wine industry | MICROWINE Project | H2020 | CORDIS

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.

Field of science

/natural sciences/biological sciences/microbiology
/agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/agriculture/agronomy/plant protection
/engineering and technology/industrial biotechnology/bioprocessing technologies/fermentation
/natural sciences/biological sciences/genetics and heredity/dna
/social sciences/economics and business/economics/production economics
/medical and health sciences/health sciences/nutrition
/natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/geochemistry
/agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/agriculture/horticulture/viticulture

Funding Scheme

MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks

Coordinator

AARHUS UNIVERSITET

Address

Nordre Ringgade 1
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 580 163,76

MICROWINE - Microbial metagenomics and the modern wine industry

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