I joined the faculty of the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph in January 2015. I have recently been awarded the NSERC/Dairy Farmers of Ontario Industrial Research Chair in Dairy Microbiology. I previously directed the Department of Food Science & Nutrition at Laval University in Québec City. I have teaching and research experience in food microbiology, biotechnology and food applications of microbial molecular genetics, genomics and proteomics, using systems approaches for studying microbial ecology. My research aims towards understanding how food components modulate the metabolic activities of microbiota in food and human microbial ecosystems.
Role in Syst-OMICS
With my colleague Ismail Fliss, I’m in charge of Activity 1.6, which aims to assess survival and virulence gene expression of selected Salmonella strains in gastrointestinal tract models of the stomach, small intestine and colon microbiota.