Marcelo Gottschalk

Biography

Dr. Gottschalk was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he obtained a DVM. He then arrived to Canada in 1987 where he obtained his PhD in microbiology and immunology from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montreal. Since 2002 he is full professor at the department of pathology and microbiology of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Montreal. He obtained six different national awards for his research. In addition, he was granted with an Honoris Causa by the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 2018 as a recognition for his career. Dr. Gottschak is the director of the international reference laboratory for swine pleuropneumonia (caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae) and the international reference laboratory for Streptococcus suis, and important swine and human pathogen. He is also a consultant for the WHO on human disease caused by S. suis and he is frequently requested for his expertise to act on human outbreaks in Asia. Dr. Gottschalk has published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and around 150 articles in professional journals. He has been requested as invited speaker to give more than 300 conferences in more than 35 countries around the world.

Team 

• Sonia Lacouture (Lab assistant)
• Annie Gaudreau (Lab assistant)
• Three technicians, 1 PhD student, 2 MSc students

Theme

• Bacteriology

Research topics

• Study of the pathogenesis of meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis
• Systemic and central nervous system inflammatory response during infections
• Interaction of pro-inflammatory cytokines
• Interactions between bacterial pathogens and endothelial, epithelial and phagocytic cells
• Evaluation of humoral immune response to infection and / or vaccination (serology)
• Development of vaccines against pathogenic bacteria

Publications

• Auger JP, Santinón A, Roy D, Mossman K, Xu J, Segura M, Gottschalk M. Type I Interferon Induced by Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 is Strain-Dependent and May Be Beneficial for Host Survival. Front Immunol. 2017 Aug 28;8:1039.
• Roy D, Athey TBT, Auger JP, Goyette-Desjardins G, Van Calsteren MR, Takamatsu D, Okura M, Teatero S, Alcorlo M, Hermoso JA, Segura M, Gottschalk M, Fittipaldi A single amino acid polymorphism in the glycosyltransferase CpsK defines four Streptococcus suis serotypes. Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 22;7(1):4066.
• Kerdsin A, Akeda Y, Takeuchi D, Dejsirilert S, Gottschalk M, Oishi K. Genotypic diversity of Streptococcus suis strains isolated from humans in Thailand. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2018 Feb 7. doi: 10.1007/s10096-018-3208-8.
• Auray G, Lachance C, Wang Y, Gagnon CA, Segura M, Gottschalk M. Transcriptional Analysis of PRRSV-Infected Porcine Dendritic Cell Response to Streptococcus suis Infection Reveals Up-Regulation of Inflammatory-Related Genes Expression. PLoS One. 2016 May 23;11(5):e0156019