I trained in Microbiology (BSc) and in Food Science (MSc and PhD) at Université Laval. During my PhD, I spent 18 months as a visiting graduate student at North Carolina State University. At the end of my PhD, I was recruited by Unilever, a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company, as an industrial post-doctoral scientist. I’m now a full professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Université Laval, Canada Research Chair in Bacteriophages and Curator of the Félix d’Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses. My main research goal is to increase knowledge on phage biology. I favor an integrative approach (combining data from genomics, proteomics, and structural biology) to understand the interactions between phages and bacteria.
Role in Syst-OMICS
In Activity 2, I am involved in all sub-activities but my main contribution will be in the isolation and selection of isolates or mixtures of bacteriophages that will inhibit Salmonella In vitro and in planta. We will also study the interactions between Salmonella and its phages in order to reduce the development of phage resistance.
I am also involved in sub-activities 4.1 which aims to analysed if CRISPR is the best of the 4 emerging methods to the use of WGS data for Salmonella typing purposes.