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10 June 2025

By: STLO Frederique Pedrono

DHA encapsulation profoundly modifies its metabolism and physiological impact

DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid essential for brain and heart health. Yet its nutritional intake is insufficient in the French population. Fortifying everyday foods with DHA is therefore a preferred option for achieving nutritional balance. Fortification with encapsulated DHA would increase its release in the gastrointestinal tract, thereby modifying both the regulation of food intake and its metabolism.
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26 May 2025

By: STLO - A. Deglaire

Amino acid requirements of infants: are they adequately covered by infant formulas?

Breastfeeding is the ideal way to feed infants. However, when breastfeeding is not possible or not desired, infants are given infant formulas, mainly produced from bovine milk. There are still differences between human milk and infant formula, including a different protein profile and amino acid composition, as well as different protein structures. In order to optimise these infant formulas, it is essential to gain a better understanding of the bioavailability of amino acids in infant formulas compared with human milk.
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23 May 2025

By: STLO - Aurélie Nicolas

Kick-off meeting of SaToRix project

The kick-off meeting for the SATORIX project, in which STLO is involved in, took place on Monday 19 May at ANSES Maison-Alfort. Yves Le Loir, Eric Guédon and Aurélie Nicolas attended the meeting.
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22 May 2025

By: STLO M. Morzel

When alpha-lactabumin meets polyphenols : insights into its interactions with the epigallocatechin gallate and procyanidin.

At STLO, we don't need to introduce you to proteins! But we're less familiar with polyphenols, a large family of organic molecules with complex properties. Mainly of plant origin, polyphenols provide defense, coloring and reinforcing functions for plants and their fruit. Useful in plants, interactions between polyphenols and proteins can be detrimental in foods, causing astringency through interaction between dietary polyphenols and salivary proteins, for example, or altering digestibility.
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16 May 2025

By: STLO

Bactinflam - Second webinar

The second Bactinflam seminar will be held on May 21 and 22 at STLO. It is open to all, and will also be accessible by videoconference. Don't hesitate to register!
Food digestion
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15 May 2025

By: STLO-MHFamelart

Food digestion : in vitro methodologies and future challenges Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme – April to July 2025

L’ Institut Agro in association with INRAE, STLO and the INFOGEST network will host the 2nd joint intensive program dedicated to “food digestion: in vitro methodologies and future challenges”. This program is funded by the European Union's Erasmus + program and has been built in collaboration with the European universities of Leuven, Copenhagen, Wageningen and Gdansk.
Photo of an element of the Synchotron, located in Grenoble at the European Synchrotron Research Facility.
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25 April 2025

By: F. Guyomarc'h

The longest day... at ESRF!

A five-strong STLO team, led by Ghazi Ben-Messaoud et Thomas Croguennec, joined Julien Bauland (former STLO doctoral student) and Thomas Gibaud (his post-doctoral supervisor at École Nationale Supérieure de Lyon) at the European Synchrotron Research Facility in Grenoble, France, from April 10 to 14.
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11 April 2025

By: STLO F. Guyomarc'h

Green Food Tech 2025 is open !

Here comes the sun... and Green Food Tech! The Green Food Tech conference, organised by INAF, Université Laval du Québec, Université de Lille, and INRAE through the BioEcoAgro and STLO joint cross-border units, opened its doors on 9 April 2025 under a radiant, yet Malouin, sun! The conference will end on 11 April, still under the sun!
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11 April 2025

By: STLO-F. Guyomarc'h

VEG&LAIT blows out its first candle!

On April 3 and 4, the partners in the VEG&LAIT project, led by UMR STLO and funded by the French National Research Agency, met in Rennes to take stock of this innovative collaborative research project.
Le digesteur in vitro NERDT
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15 May 2025

By: STLO

NERDT, a new biomimetic in vitro digester

In order to study food digestion in humans, research teams are developing artificial digesters that enable food digestion to be studied under standardized, reproducible conditions. The NEar Real Digestive Tract (NERDT) is a new-generation dynamic biomimetic digester consisting of a life-size silicone stomach that simulates stomach contractions.
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25 February 2025

By: STLO - F. Guyomarc'H

VEG&LAIT mobilizes on participating farms!

Blandine Renault and Maïté de Sainte-Agathe, PhD students at UMR Agronomie, and Gabrielle Jagorel, contract research engineer at UMR STLO, joined the VEG&LAIT project consortium in September 2024. They are working respectively on the integration of pulses into dairy production systems, and on the use of flours or concentrates from such crops in innovative recipes. Over the past few months, they have been able to take part in training courses and workshops on the Invitation à la Ferme network farms involved in the project.
recruitment closed
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01 April 2025

By: STLO

Researcher microbial and cellular interactions

A researcher position is open in our STLO unit! You are passionate about bacteria-bacteria and bacteria-host interactions, involved in the design of good and healthy foods? So, join us!
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22 January 2025

By: INRAE

BIFORES: a project to rethink infant formulas

The ANR BIFORES project, coordinated by Sergine Even, Research Director in the Microbiology team at STLO, has just got underway! This multi-disciplinary project aims to rethink infant formula production by combining fermentation and “minimal processing” to simultaneously meet the challenges of health, safety and sustainability of these products.
Poster presenting the Doctorama of STLO, 2025 edition
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09 January 2025

By: STLO

Doctorama STLO - 2025 Edition

The Doctorama is an event “made in STLO”, during which second-year PhD students present their thesis to the whole laboratory, in a humorous way. Join us on Thursday, January 9, 2025, in the Moule amphitheater, to see our young scientists in action!
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06 January 2025

By: STLO

Jiajun Feng defends his thesis!

Jiajun Feng will defend his thesis on Wednesday 8 January 2025, at 9:00 am, in the Roux Amphitheatre, at the Institut Agro Rennes-Angers - Rennes Campus. Jiajun Feng's thesis is entitled ‘Elucidation of the mechanisms of gastric digestion of milk using a dynamic biomimetic in vitro model that integrates the biomechanics of the stomach’. It was carried out at STLO, under the supervision of Didier Dupont.
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18 December 2024

By: STLO-MHFamelart

Appointment to the rank of Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole

Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole
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13 December 2024

By: STLO - Sergine Even

STLO at the "Journées Francophones de Nutrition"

The Journées Francophones de Nutrition 2024, organized by the SFN (Société Française de Nutrition) and the SFNCM (Société Francophone de Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme) took place from December 4 to 6, 2024 in Strasbourg. Every year, this event brings together the various players in the field of nutrition: researchers, nutritionists, doctors and manufacturers. This year, over 2,000 people gathered at the Palais des Congres to discuss nutrition at all stages of life, in relation to health, safety, behavior and dietary transition.
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11 December 2024

By: STLO

INRAE's Multi-Criteria Evaluation network is up and running!

Following the working group on Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Food and Agri-Food Systems led by Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou since 2016, the Multi-Criteria Evaluation network has just been launched at INRAE!
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10 December 2024

By: STLO

Fanny Guyomarc'h rewarded for her work on the sustainability of the French dairy industry

This year, the Association pour les Recherches sur l'Économie Agroalimentaire (AREA) honoured Fanny Guyomarc'h, a research engineer at STLO, for her professional thesis on the sustainability of the dairy industry in France. The thesis was written at the end of her master's year at the École des Métiers de l'Environnement UniLaSalle, and proposes ways of thinking about how to involve farms and dairies in an agro-ecological transition.
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06 December 2024

By: STLO - Y. Le Loir

Congrats to our STLO colleagues Olivia Ménard and Didier Dupont !

Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world's most influential researchers ─ the few experts who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the past decade.This year, Olivia Ménard and Didier Dupont; members of STLO's Bioactivity & Nutrition team, received this distinction. Congratulations to them!
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04 December 2024

By: STLO-MHFamelart

Luca Lanotte will defend his HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches)

On Monday December 9, 2024, Luca Lanotte will defend his HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches). This is the highest French university degree, recognizing the accomplished career of a candidate with mature scientific expertise, his ability to implement a research strategy in his field and further to supervise PhD students and young researchers.
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