Ed Topp
Since July 2023, Ed Topp has held the ANR/INSERM Chair of Excellence, Priority Research Programme: Antibiotic Resistance, and is Director of Research at the UMR Agroecology of the INRAE research centre in Dijon. Before coming to France, he was a senior researcher at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario.
Ed is a microbiologist and environmental chemist who conducts research into animal and plant production practices that protect the environment and human health. He has published over 325 peer-reviewed publications, and has an H-index of 89 (accessed on Google Scholar on 5.2025). He was also Scientific Coordinator (2016-2023) of the Federal Genomics Research and Development Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance, a key component of the Canadian Federal Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Ed is a past president of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists (2011) and has received the Ontario Water and Environment Association's Research Excellence Award (2014), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Gold Harvest Lifetime Achievement Award (2015), the Government of Canada's Public Service Award of Excellence for Scientific Contribution (2016), was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Agriculture (2016) and has been appointed a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America in 2022.
Conférence : La modélisation peut-elle résoudre des questions insolubles concernant l’antibiorésistance environnementale ?
Laurent Philippot
Laurent Philippot is Director of Research at the Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (INRAE) and Deputy Director of the UMR Agroécologie in Dijon.
His work aims to establish links between the ecology of microbial communities, microbial processes and the functioning of ecosystems. As part of this, he studies how environmental conditions and agricultural practices influence the composition and activity of soil microbial communities, as well as the ecosystem services they support, such as climate regulation and nutrient cycling. He has developed this research theme by focusing particularly on the microbial guilds involved in the nitrogen cycle and greenhouse gas emissions.
He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications and book chapters, and has been/is a senior editor for The ISME Journal as well as a member of the editorial boards of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, FEMS Microbiology Ecology and Frontiers in Terrestrial Microbiology.
In 2021, he was awarded the Lauriers de l'INRAE for the scientific challenge prize, and since 2018 has been in the top 0.1% of most cited researchers according to the Clarivate rankings, first in the interdisciplinary category and then in microbiology.
He is currently scientific coordinator of the France 2030 HARMI programme: Harnessing Microbiomes for Sustainable Development (https://www.ubfc.fr/en/research/research-projects-2/harmi/).
Conférence : Décryptage des interactions entre microorganismes dans les sols
