Dr. Louis-Philippe Hamel is an expert of the plant innate immune system with a unique expertise in the biopharmaceutical industry and in the field of plant molecular farming. Formerly employed by Medicago, his most recent work aims at understanding plant’s responses to Agrobacterium-mediated expression of recombinant proteins in plants, including for the production of plant-made vaccines and antibodies. In addition to these fundamental aspects, his research focuses on the development of genetic and non-genetic approaches to improve plant molecular farming practices. During his Ph.D and as a postdoc fellow at the University of Sherbrooke and at Harvard University, Dr. Hamel worked on intracellular signaling pathways that lead to the activation of plant defense, including downstream of resistance proteins and mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades. His work highlighted several defense activation routes, including through the degradation of defense repressors that inhibit resistance mechanisms in the absence of stress.

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