Bassirou Ndoye, PhD

• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment (over 50 staff)
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Worked well in team setting, providing support and guidance.

• Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
• Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.

• Evaluated and supervised student activities and performance levels to provide reports on academic progress.
• Helped struggling students by providing support outside of classrooms and consistently checking in on progress.
• Applied innovative teaching methods to encourage student learning objectives.
• Built strong rapport with students through class discussions and academic advisement.
• Coordinate the Faculty of Food Sciences & Technology’s activities to secure funds and develop academic curricula, courses, and programs.

• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment.
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Worked well in team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Coordinated microbiology lab’s activities to monitor samples testing under quality management system and regulations guidelines and secure funds, manage human and financial resources as well as supervise staff and students.
• Drove team for routine operations of testing: rapid diagnostic of presumptive microbial contamination (Salmonella, Campylobacter, Clostridia, etc.), yeasts and molds, Total Aerobic Plate Counts (APC) from raw, processed and finished products.
• Created specific team to monitor and consolidate rigorous biosafety program in lab.
• Provided strong leadership in managing human and financial resources.

• Wrote research papers, reports, reviews, and summaries regarding microbiology, fermentation, downstream processing, greenhouse processes, packaging, commercialization.
• Performed research into study topics to increase knowledge and to provide valuable contributions.
• Generated data models and performed analysis to produce reports outlining results.
• Documented and reported test results after making graphical solutions and representations.
• Led team of two staff scientists and internships to coordinate evidence-based research that develops bio-fertilizers and bio-inoculants using PGPR, nitrogen-fixing microorganisms to enhance peas and soybeans production farms.
• Carried out diverse range of microbiological and fermentation research methods including polyphasic (genomics, physiology and analytical chemistry) and sound statistical analysis such as DOE experiments to achieve reproducible and consistent results.

Research project: Controlling the occurrence of verotoxigenic E. coli O157H7 on beef carcasses in Albertan Meat Plants (Supervisor: Dr Collin Gill, R.I.P)

• Analyzed modeling system to assimilate observations and understand interactions.
• Applied prior training to scientific programs to expand industry expertise.
• Communicated findings and provided support to grow research efforts to enhance algorithms and workflows.
• Demonstrated concepts to prototype in operations to assist system development projects.

Research Project: Development of molecular methods to study the cheese typicity, quality and taste with suppressive and subtraction hybridization (SSH), (Supervisor: Pr Denis Roy)

• Liaised with supervisor to review grants and manuscripts and develop potential publications.
• Published research results in peer-reviewed research journals and presented at seminars and scientific meetings.
• Leveraged interpersonal and communication skills to mentor PhD, graduate and undergraduate students.
• Contributed to and actively participated in research conception, design and execution to address defined problems.

Research project: Bio-ethanol fermentation from sugar beets as a basis of plant bio-refinery (Co-Supervisors: Pr Philippe Thonart – Pr Michel Paquot)

• Used microbial fermentation as purification tool for white chemistry
• Developed value-added byproducts metabolites such as betain for pharmacological application
• Performed statistical, qualitative, and quantitative analysis.
• Worked both independently and collaboratively in fast-paced laboratory environment.
• Reviewed documents and data to identify trends and patterns.
• Maintained up-to-date records of research activities and results for future reference.

Research project (Original Dissertation): Microbiological, biochemical, and genetic potentialities of freeze-dried starters of acetic acid bacteria isolated from agricultural products of sub-Saharan Africa and destined to industrial vinegar (Supervisor: Pr Philippe Thonart)

• Used strong polyphasic and bio-informatics approaches as well as industrial microbiological technics to deliver marketable mango vinegar product from microbial cells isolated from mango fruits to finished products.
• Carried out diverse range of microbiological and fermentation research methods to isolate, detect and characterize new thermoresistant acetic acid bacterium (Acetobacter senegalensis sp nov) from mango fruits in Senegal capable of vinegar fermentation at higher temperatures
• Published 4 peer-reviewed research papers, 1 book chapter and several abstracts as scientific contributions of project;
• Awarded international Belgian Cooperation Development Prize, Edition 2007 (2,500 euros), for having contributed to sustainable development and fight against poverty in developing countries.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment.
• Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Worked well in team setting, providing support and guidance.