Titre du diaporama Ressemblant à un H1

Isabelle Virlogeux-Payant, Co-head of the group « Signalling, carriage and virulence of bacteria” in the Infectious Diseases and Public Health Department, INRAE

Mikael Sellin, Professor of Molecular Medicine – Infection BiologyUppsala University

Salmonella is a facultative intracellular bacterium found within various phagocytic and non-phagocytic cells and able to infect a wide variety of hosts belonging to the animal and plant kingdoms. The success of host colonization by Salmonella relies on its ability to interact with host cells, to resist the host immune response and to outcompete the microbiota. The session devoted to « Interactions between Salmonella, their hosts and the microbiota » aims to bring together the scientific community working on a variety of hosts and models (at the bacterial, cell, organoid or animal level) and allow them to present their recent findings and discuss future challenges.

Marianne Chemaly, Scientific Director Food Safety, Head of HQPAP Unit, Anses

Co-chair : José Emilio Esteban

Epidemiological investigations for sampling and tracing Salmonella contamination throughout the food chain and the possible control measures applied are the focus of this session. It covers the contamination of the food chain by Salmonella, from farm to fork and the environment. Communications addressed to this session would deal with the contamination and follow-up of animals, plants and environmental premises, and the control at the primary production, processing and at retail levels. Communications covering emerging serovars in domestic and wild animals are also welcomed in this session.

Laurent Guillier, Project Manager, ANSES

Francisco Zagmutt, Managing Director, Epix Analytics

The impact on risk of control measures for Salmonella applied along the farm to fork chain is the main scope of this session. Communications addressed to this session should deal with concrete examples on control measures or with modelling approaches for exposure assessment, risk characterization.  Source attributions models are also welcomed in this session.