Françoise Médale

　

Françoise Médale is Director of Research at the Joint Research Unit of the Aquaculture Nutrition and Genomics of INRA, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research. A specialist in the nutrition of farmed fish, Dr. Médale uses rainbow trout as her model organism to analyze the cellular and molecular mechanisms and regulators of energy use of nutrients. Her objectives are to reduce nitrogen use, thereby reducing nitrogen discharges, and to modulate fat deposits by nutrition in order to control the quality of characteristics in the final product, such as nutritional value, sensory characteristics, and yield. She also studies the relation of genetic variability to utilization of nutrients in different raw food ingredients. Dr. Médale also teaches fish nutrition at the University of Rennes. She is an Elected Member of the Scientific Council of INRA, a Member of the National Council of Universities Section 68, and an expert of the group on nutritional quality and health of aquatic products for AFSSA, the French Food Safety Agency. Dr. Médale received her Degree in Physiology and Biochemistry and Metabolic Structurale from Toulouse III, her Maitrise in Animal Physiology from Toulouse III, and her Ph.D. in Food Science from the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse.