Frédérique Le Roux

Université de Montréal

Full Professor

Specialty: molecular microbiology

Frédérique Le Roux has been a full professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology since September 1, 2023. Frédérique is interested in the antimicrobial resistance of marine bacteria (vibrios) and their coevolution with bacteriophages. In 2023, she was awarded the Canada Excellence Research Chair for her research program “Eco-Evo-Patho of microbes in nature”. Before joining the Université de Montréal, she led a team at the Roscoff biological station (Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique and Sorbonne Université). Frédérique holds a PhD in molecular biology.