Alexandre Thibodeau

Background

About Alexandre Thibodeau

Greetings! I am Alexandre Thibodeau. I am a PhD in Veterinary Science from the Université de Montréal, specializing in food safety. I am a professor at University of Montreal since 2018. My principal quality: creativity. I am awesome when it comes to new ideas, to put different protocols together, to answers questions or to plan the next step after a given project. I am also enthusiasm, sometimes a little too much! So many ideas, so little time! I have jumped in the gut microbiome wave, analyzing it in the perspective of foodborne pathogens and animal health/wellfare. I am working both in vitro and in vivo (chicken and swine mainly). I have worked in research animal facilities, at the farm and in animal/food processing plants, isolating the major foodborne pathogens, characterizing them as well as their accompanying microbiota. Currently, I am setting in our lab a bioreactor that can maintain a microbiota derived from animals, thus lowering the number of animals needed for microbiota study. I am currently working on methods to modify this relatively stable microbiome as well as to control foodborne pathogens at the farm. In conclusion, I am a microbiologist, a molecular microbiologist, an animal scientist, a food safety expert, a microbial ecologist and a professor. Cheers! I added my full resumé, in French, in this section. Alexandre Thibodeau, April 2022.