Dairy Microbiology

The centre for dairy Microbiology has developed methods to record, understand and control the biodiversity of dairy microbial ecosystems.

The main areas of intervention:

• Isolation, identification and characterisation of different technological flora, spoilage and pathogenic,
• Personalised selection of starters for given technological objectives,
• Long term preservation and maintenance of entrusted biological material (bacteria, yeasts, phages, complete ecosystems…), with currently over 2000 strains preserved,
• Expertise in the field of lactic acid bacteria bacteriophages (private collection of 200 phages).

The centre for dairy microbiology has tools for identification (TTGE, specific PCR), determination of biodiversity (RAPD, ARDRA, DNA restriction), acidification and growth tests (control by Cinac), a pilot freeze-drier, etc.

It intends to become a Biological Resource Centre (BRC)according to the new July 2008 BRC standard NF S 96900.

The animation of Résomil (Network of French collections of dairy micro-organisms), and of FranceMIL National collection of genetic resources for dairy micro-organisms) is ensured by the Centre for dairy microbiology.


Contact: Emmanuel Jamet - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   - Tel. +33 (0)4 50 97 93 40