SpeakersEach of the five sessions of the 18th RFMF Scientific Days will be opened by a keynote speaker of international renown.
 Prof. Cédric BertrandCédric Bertrand is an agricultural engineer by training and a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia. He is a specialist in metabolomics applied to natural substances. He developed the concept of the Environmental Metabolic Footprint, which aims to characterize the metabolic signatures left by natural or biocontrol products in the environment. His research in untargeted metabolomics focuses on studying the fate and impact of complex preparations across various environmental matrices. He leads research at the CRIOBE Laboratory (UAR 3278) and coordinates the AgroLab BioMed Living Lab, dedicated to the study of biosolutions in plant production. Prof.Cédric Bertrand will be a keynote speaker for the session "One Health – Environment and Exposome."  Prof. Lynn VanhaeckeLynn Vanhaecke is Full Professor and head of the Laboratory of Integrative Metabolomics at Ghent University (Belgium) since 2011, and holds a 20% appointment at the Institute of Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast (UK) since 2018. Lynn’s major research objectives include the holistic analyses of small molecules through metabolomics and lipidomics using high-resolution mass spectrometry (including ambient ionization) in relation to the diet-microbiome-health axis. In 2023, she received an ERC Consolidator Grant to continue her work on advancing metabolomics into pediatric precision medicine. Lynn is an active board member of the Nutritional genomics society and an elected board member of the Metabolomics Society. Prof. Lynn Vanhaecke will be a keynote speaker for the session "One Health – Humans."  Prof. Nicole van DamNicole M. van Dam is a chemical ecologist who aims to understand the molecular and chemical mechanisms underlying plant interactions. She holds a full professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and is scientific director of the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) in Großbeeren, Germany since 2022. Her research involves metabolic and transcriptomic approaches to study how plants respond to herbivores both above and below ground. Within this topic, she is particularly interested in understanding how the enormous chemical diversity observed in plants has emerged and is maintained by natural selection. The results of her research have implications for ecological theory and sustainable agriculture, particularly in the development of integrated pest management strategies. Prof. Nicole van Dam will be a keynote speaker for the session "One Health – Plants."  Prof. Tim EbbelsProf Tim Ebbels was awarded his PhD in 1998 from the University of Cambridge. His group focuses on the application of bioinformatic, machine learning and chemometric techniques to post-genomic data, with a particular emphasis on computational metabolomics. Key areas of interest are NMR & MS data processing, data integration, visualisation, network analysis, time series and metabolite annotation. He is particularly known for the ‘BATMAN’ software for analysing complex metabolic NMR spectra, and more recently his work using biological pathways to build interpretable models of metabolomics data. Tim is a previous Director of the international Metabolomics Society and a co-founder of the London Metabolomics Network. He has supported numerous efforts promoting quality and reusability of metabolomics data and is an editorial board member for BMC Bioinformatics. He has a strong commitment to education, serving as Director of the MRes in Biomedical Research at Imperial College (>1000 students trained) and leading Imperial’s Data Analysis in Metabolomics short course. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society. |
