Research

When excellence meets interdisciplinarity

In teaming up with the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences (FSAA), you’ll get access to the multidisciplinary scientific expertise of some 100 professor – researchers who are world-renowned in all areas of the food chain and who oversee more than 400 graduate students. Research activities at the FSAA bring innovative solutions to pressing issues and raise numerous challenges.
Each year, no less than 180 businesses and 35 ministries or agencies from Canadian and Quebec governments rely on the expertise of FSAA researchers for the advancement and transfer of knowledge.

Our axes and research fields:

$20M

in grants, partnerships and research contracts

research centres recognized + institute

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Levallois, Raymond

agricultural management
Lambert, Rémy

rural development, chain analysis
Jacques, Hélène

nutrition, diet, nutritional quality, public nutrition, quality, measurements in the professional...
Desrosiers, Thérèse

development and evaluation of food guides, nutritional impact of food processing
Vanasse, Anne

agroenvironmental studies, sustainable development, riparian strips, biofuels, field crops
Belzile, François

genomics, soy, barley, markers, genetic improvement
Leroux, Gilles

weed science, weed, integrated pest and plant pathogen management
Rochefort, Line

restoration ecology, bryophytes, moss, peatland, plant ecology
Dion, Patrice

tropical agriculture, Agricultural microbiology
Bélanger, Richard

biological control, phytopathology, genomics
Collin, Jean

experimental devices, experiment planning, plant improvement, organic agriculture
Charest, Pierre-Mathieu

plant anatomy, plant cellular biology, phototonic and electronic microscopy, urban agriculture
Robert, Claude

oogenesis, embryonic development, genomics, epigenomics, fertility
Cinq-Mars, Dany

technico-economic management of herds, caprine production, bovine production, equine production,...
Parent, Diane

agricultural sociology, innovation adoption, farm establishment and transfers, social acceptability,...
Pellerin, Doris

dairy herd management, dairy farm sustainability, technico-economic management of herds
Bailey, Janice

fertility, spermatozoa, impacts of contaminants on the environment, reproduction
Lefrançois, Michel

zootechnical, avicolous, chicken, rabbit, egg, meat quality
Gervais, Rachel

dairy constituents, ruminant nutrition
Chouinard, Yvan

animal feed, animal nutrition, animal physiology, dairy constituents, ruminants
Khelifi, Mohamed

agricultural machine and equipment engineering, biological pest control, mechanical weed control,...
Lagacé, Robert

drainage, watercourse development, agricultural environment, agricultural hydrology, ecological...
Hamoudi, Safia

agricultural effluent treatment, environmental adsorption and catalysis, nanomaterials
Roy, Denis

probiotics, microbiomes, microbial ecology, metagenomics, dairy products, lactic acid bacteria,...
Arul, Joseph

food preservation, fruits, vegetables, packaging, food, food polymers, separation processes,...
Morisset, Anne-Sophie

gestational diabetes, Perinatal nutrition, maternal health, gestational weight gain, endocrinologie...
Bocoum, Ibrahima

rural development, sécurité alimentaire, pauvreté, analyse sociale du cycle de vie des produits
Korai, Bernard

consumer behaviour, marketing, ecology and environment
Godefroy, Samuel

allergens, food contaminants, risk analysis, skills development, regulatory policy, safety, food...
Pérez-Lopez, Edel

phytopathology
Bonakdari, Hossein

apprentissage automatique, sustainable development, gestion de l'eau, irrigation, intelligence...
Dessureault-Rompré, Jacynthe

conservation des sols organiques cultivés, rhizosphère (relation sol-plante) en lien avec la...
Dorais, Martine
Fortin, Josée
Labonté, Marie-Eve

nutritional quality, nutrition, diet evaluation, cardiometabolic health
Leblanc, Michaël

Pédologie, Caractérisation et morphométrie des sols, Classification et cartographie numérique des...
Lepage, Fanny

Transfert et croissance des entreprises, Entrepreneuriat agricole, Gouvernance et gestion...
Mikhaylin, Sergey

Chimie des aliments, sustainable development, energy efficiency, traitements électriques des...
Paquet, Eric

intelligence artificielle