Philippe Dantigny

Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Ecology
Brest France

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Philippe Dantigny is an engineer in Food Processing and Master Degree in Food Microbiology (1985). He gets in PhD in 1989 in Biochemical Engineering at the National Polytechnics of Lorraine, Nancy, France. After post-doctoral work, he was appointed as a lecturer in biochemical engineer at the University of Bath, UK. Since 1991, he is a senior lecturer at the University of Lyon, France in food microbiology, and biotechnology. He is the head of the Predictive Mycology group at the LUBEM. He is member of the French Food Safety Authority (ANSES) for 8 years– Biohazard group, expert in Predictive modelling / Food spoilage / Mycotoxins contamination / Fermentations. Dr. Philippe Dantigny has coordinated 1 FP6 project and participated in another EU project. The group of Dr Philippe Dantigny has developed specific modelling tools for fungi, and more generally a new topic named "Predictive Mycology" which aims at understanding and modelling germination, growth and production of mycotoxins in food and agricultural products. Philippe Dantigny has published more than 30 papers (SCI) in this field, and edited a reference book in 2013, Predictive Mycology, Nova Science Publisher, with more than 25 contributors from 10 different countries.

Papers:
Predictive Mycology: History and Importance of Data Collection