Philippe Raymond PhD

Research Scientist
  • Develop detection methodologies for pathogens and other contaminants that are relevant to the CFIA mandate.

  • Provide opinion and scientific advice to the CFIA Food National Reference Virology Centre on the planning and coordination of the optimization, evaluation and validation of detection methodologies.

  • Provide scientific advice on viruses and biotechnology product detection methods to the CFIA Quebec laboratory network.

Current research and/or projects

Dr. Raymond team’s work toward improving the detection tools used by the CFIA laboratories to reduce the risk to find viral food pathogens in food.

Research and/or project statements

Food Virology

  • Pilot study to explore use of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology to assist in trace-back investigations of food-borne norovirus outbreaks.
  • Risk associated to norovirus RNA detected in food.
  • Metagenomic tools applied to foodborne virus surveillance and emerging virus detection.

 

Education and awards

Academic background

Fellowship molecular virology. Armand-Frappier Institute, Laval, Que, Canada. 1996-1999.

  • Recombinant bovine viral diarrhea virus gp53 as subunit vaccine and diagnostic tool. Parvovirus. Research supervisor: Dr. Peter Tijssen, Virology Research Centre 

Ph.D. Pharmaceutical sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montreal, 1996.

  • “Involvement of kinins and mitochondria in the regulation of T-kininogen synthesis”. Research supervisors:  Dr. Albert Adam, Faculty of Pharmacy, Dr. Réjean Morais, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine.

B.Sc. Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montreal, 1989.

Awards

Canadian Food inspection Agency

  • 2015 President's National Awards : Food Virology Team, Innovation and Best Practices Award.
  • 2006 President's National Awards. Leadership.

Postdoctoral studies           

  • Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), strategic grants (STRIN 210), P. Tijssen, Armand-Frappier Institute, 1996-1999.

Graduate studies

  • Research scholarship of the Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) from 1989 to 1994.
  • Awards from the « Faculté des Études Supérieures (FES) », University of Montreal, in 1992, 1994 and 1995.
  • Award for excellence in graduate studies from the University of Montreal in 1993.
  • Parke-Davis prize for excellence in master studies, 1991.

Key publications

  • Raymond, P., Paul, S., Perron, A., Bellehumeur, C., Larocque, É., Charest, H. Detection and Sequencing of Multiple Human Norovirus Genotypes from Imported Frozen Raspberries Linked to Outbreaks in the Province of Quebec, Canada, in 2017 (2022) Food and Environmental Virology, 14 (1), pp. 40-58.
  • Cayemitte, P.E., Gerliani, N., Raymond, P., Aider, M. Study of the Antibacterial Potency of Electroactivated Solutions of Calcium Lactate and Calcium Ascorbate on Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 Vegetative Cells (2022) ACS Omega, 7 (4), pp. 3579-3595.
  • Cayemitte, P.E., Gerliani, N., Raymond, P., Aider, M. Study of the impacts of electro-activated solutions of calcium lactate, calcium ascorbate and their equimolar mixture combined with moderate heat treatments on the spores of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 under model conditions and in fresh salmon (2021) International Journal of Food Microbiology, 358, art. no. 109285, . 
  • Raymond, P., Paul, S., Perron, A., Deschênes, L., Hara, K. Extraction of human noroviruses from leafy greens and fresh herbs using magnetic silica beads (2021) Food Microbiology, 99, art. no. 103827, .
  • Raymond, P., Paul, S., Perron, A., Deschênes, L. Norovirus Extraction from Frozen Raspberries Using Magnetic Silica Beads (2021) Food and Environmental Virology, 13 (2), pp. 248-258.
  • Cayemitte, P.E., Gerliani, N., Raymond, P., Aïder, M. Study of the Electro-Activation Process of Calcium Lactate, Calcium Ascorbate Solutions, and Their Equimolar Mixture: Assessment of Their Physicochemical Properties (2021) ACS Omega, 6 (12), pp. 8531-8547.
  • Huang, H., Raymond, P., Grenier, C., Fahey, J.Development and improvement of a colony blot immunoassay for the detection of thermotolerant Campylobacter species (2020) Methods in Microbiology, 47, pp. 209-244.
  • Raymond, P., Bellehumeur, C., Nagarajan, M., Longtin, D., Ferland, A., Müller, P., Bissonnette, R., Simard, C. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) in pig meat. (2017) Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research, 81 (3), pp. 162-170.
  • Raymond, P., Gendron, L., Khalf, M., Paul, S., Dibley, K.L., Bhat, S., Xie, V.R.D., Partis, L., Moreau, M.-E., Dollard, C., Coté, M.-J., Laberge, S., Emslie, K.R. Detection and identification of multiple genetically modified events using DNA insert fingerprinting. (2010) Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 396 (6), pp. 2091-2102. Cited 18 times.
  • Weber, D., Raymond, P., Ben-Rejeb, S., Lau, B. Development of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method using capillary liquid chromatography and nanoelectrospray ionization-quadrupole time-of-flight hybrid mass spectrometer for the detection of milk allergens. (2006) Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 54 (5), pp. 1604-1610. Cited 62 times.
  • Perron, A., Raymond, P., Simard, R. The occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes in Taq polymerases and a decontamination method applied to the detection of genetically modified crops. (2006) Biotechnology Letters, 28 (5), pp. 321-325.
  • Côté, M.-J., Meldrum, A.J., Raymond, P., Dollard, C. Identification of genetically modified potato (Solanum tuberosum) cultivars using event specific polymerase chain reaction. (2005) Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 53 (17), pp. 6691-6696. Cited 10 times.
  • Zádori, Z., Szelei, J., Lacoste, M.-C., Li, Y., Gariépy, S., Raymond, P., Allaire, M., Nabi, I.R., Tijssen, P. A Viral PhospholipaseA2 Is Required for Parvovirus Infectivity. (2001) Developmental Cell, 1 (2), pp. 291-302. Cited 275 times.

Research facility

3400 Casavant Blvd. West
Saint-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 8E3
Canada

Language

English
French