One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit – 20th June 2025
Opening of the Summit
Opening remarks
Philippe Mauguin, Director General, INRAE, Didier Samuel, Director General, INSERM, Emmanuelle Soubeyran, Director General, WOAH, message from Yasmine Belkaid, Director General, Pasteur France.
Contribution of microbiome research to Planetary Health
George Fu Gao, Chinese Academy of Science.
History of the WMP and Objectives of the Summit
Joël Doré, Acting President WMP/INRAE, Lita Proctor, Acting Vice President WMP/NIH.
‘Blue Sky’ Session – What could WMP do?
WMP and One Health – Quadripartite
Chadia Wannous, WOAH
WMP and One Health – Quadripartite
Thanawat Tiensin, FAO
WMP and the Human Microbiome
Jim Versalovic (Baylor Coll. Med.), Hiroshi Ohno (RIKEN), Willem De Vos (Wageningen Univ.).
WMP and Plant and Animal Microbiomes
Rebecca Stumpf (Illinois Univ.), Tim McAllister (Agriculture/Agric-Food Canada) Carolee Bull (Penn. State Univ.)
WMP and Environmental Microbiomes
Alice Ortmann (Fisheries/Ocean Canada), Peer Bork (EMBL), Susan Prescott (Univ W. Australia)
‘Action` Session – What will the WMP do?
Working Group F: Environmental Microbiomes and Climate Change
Emma Rocke (Univ. Capetown), Rob Knight (UCSD).
Working Group A: Human Microbiome and Public Health Targets
Jeroen Raes (VIB-KU, Leuven), Robert BENAMOUZIG (APHP), Matt Henn (SeresTherapeutics).
Working Group B: Microbiome Technologies
Elaine Holmes (Murdoch Univ), Petra Louis (Rowett Inst) and Nicola Segata (Univ Trento).
Working Group C: Microbiome Product Development and Regulatory Science
Chrysi Sergaki (MHRA), Kristin Wannerberger (Acting WMP Treasurer/Ferring Pharmaceuticals), Karine Clement (Inserm), Hervé Affagard (MaaT Pharma).
Working Group D: Agrifood system microbiomes
Angela Sessitsch (Austrian Inst. Tech.), Rebecca Stumpf (Univ Ill), Fanette Fontaine (FAO).
Working Group E: FAIR Microbiome Data
Stephane Pesant (EBI), Omry Koren (Bar Ilan Univ.), Liping Zhao (Rutgers Univ.).
Working Group G: One Health Microbiome Partnerships
Irma Janeth Sanabria Gomez (Univ. del Valle-Sede), Maria-Gloria Dominguez Bello (Rutgers Univ.).
Conclusion
Remarks by Lita Proctor, Acting Vice President WMP/NIH
Closing Remarks by Emmanuelle Maguin, Acting WMP Secretary General/INRAE