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Gisèle Lapointe

Ph.D.STA, FSAA, Université Laval

Ms Lapointe previously directed the Department of Food Science at Laval University in Québec City, and was a regular member of the STELA Dairy Research Centre from 1995 and of INAF since its inception. She joined the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph in January 2015, and has recently been awarded the NSERC/Dairy Farmers of Ontario Industrial Research Chair in Dairy Microbiology. Her teaching and research expertise is in food microbiology, biotechnology and integrating approaches of microbial molecular genetics, genomics, proteomics and metabonomics. Her research aims towards understanding how food components modulate the metabolic activities of microbes in food and human microbial ecosystems. Her goal is to improve the quality and functionality of food, with a special focus on milk and dairy products from production and processing to human health.
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Dairy Alliance

Highlights

• Dairy processors and retailers are interested in improving finished product quality such as cheese color and texture.
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Microbial biofilms and milk quality

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  • Bacteria and biofilms are an inherent risk in cheesemaking that must be managed on a continuous basis. Biofilms, protective cu...

Quality of Greek Yogurts and Optimization of Co-products

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  • Greek yogurt has won the favour of consumers and now makes up the largest segment of the yogurt market.
  • The dairy ind...

Genomics Applied to Cheeses

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Producing cheeses such as Cheddar, Camembert, mozzarella and Swiss of consistent quality on an industrial scale is a central concern fo...

Dairy Products Fortified with Probiotics

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Developing products to maintain the viability and activity of probiotic bacteria is a genuine technological challenge for manufacturers...

Impact of Inoculants and Quality of Silage on Milk

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  • Milk is a major staple for human consumption.
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RELATED PROJECTS

Occurence and impact of microbial biofilms on milk quality from farm to cheese vats

Principal researchers: Denis Roy, ULaval and Evelyne Guévremont, AAFC

Collaborators: Julie Jean, Ismail Fliss, ULaval; Mario Jacques, Simon Dufo...