Round table of friday 23/05 13h30

A round-table discussion on phagotherapy and its applications in agriculture and agri-food will be held on Friday May 23, as an extension to the symposium.

Phage therapy is based on the use of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, to treat bacterial contaminations or infections. It can be used for curative or preventive purposes in humans, animals and plants, as well as in industry. At a time when the effectiveness of antibiotics and other biocides is being compromised by the emergence of resistant bacteria and their environmental effects, phage therapy is emerging as a promising alternative, backed by tangible results.

The Groupe Interdisciplinaire sur la Phagothérapie (GIPh), which organized the round table, was created on the initiative of four learned societies: the Société Française de Microbiologie (SFM), the Société de Pathologie Infectieuse de Langue Française (SPILF), the Société Française de Virologie (SFV), and the Société Française de Phytopathologie (SFP), as well as in partnership with the Réseau Phages.fr. The latter brings together researchers from various scientific organizations (CNRS, INRAE, INSERM, Institut Pasteur), universities and university hospitals. GIPh is a collective initiative aimed at raising awareness of the challenges of phage therapy and providing consensus-based scientific information.

• Date: May 23, 2025
• Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
• Location: Agora du haut-Carré, Université de Bordeaux, Talence campus
• Free, no registration required.
• Open to all (SFP conference participants, students and teachers at U. Bordeaux, general public)
• Speakers and hosts: researchers specializing in phages and their use in agriculture: Clara Torres-Barcelo, UMR Plant Health Institute Montpellier (INRAE Montpellier) and Claire Le Hénaff-Le Marrec, UMR Œnologie (University of Bordeaux, INRAE, ISVV).