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Monique Zagorec is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research predominantly focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 23 publications, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, consisting of 9 publications.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including Animal Science and Zoology and Food Science, each with 11 published works, followed by Biomedical Engineering with 5 publications, Molecular Biology with 4, and Biotechnology with 3.

Main topics of Monique Zagorec's research include:

  • Meat and Animal Product Quality
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
  • Microbial Inactivation Methods
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Food Safety and Hygiene

Recent scientific papers by Monique Zagorec include:

  • "Spoilage of Chilled Fresh Meat Products during Storage: A Quantitative Analysis of Literature Data" (2020), published in Microorganisms
  • "Contribution of omics to biopreservation: Toward food microbiome engineering" (2022), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Spoilage of fresh turkey and pork sausages: Influence of potassium lactate and modified atmosphere packaging" (2020), published in Food Research International
  • "Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Bacterial Communities of Farmed Rainbow Trout Fillets (Oncorhynchus mykiss)" (2020), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Large-scale multivariate dataset on the characterization of microbiota diversity, microbial growth dynamics, metabolic spoilage volatilome and sensorial profiles of two industrially produced meat products subjected to changes in lactate concentration and packaging atmosphere" (2020), published in Data in Brief

Monique Zagorec frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microorganisms
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Food Research International
  • International Journal of Food Microbiology

Frequent co-authors include Sandrine Guillou, Ngoc-Du Martin Luong, Stéphane Chaillou, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, and Marie-Hélène Desmonts.

In addition to journal articles, Monique Zagorec has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming work titled La conservation des aliments. Vers plus de durabilité et de naturalité set to be published by éditions Quae eBooks in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The complete genome sequence of the meat-borne lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus sakei 23K

    Stéphane Chaillou;Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès;Monique Cornet;Anne-Marie Crutz-Le Coq

  • Bacterial Contaminants of Poultry Meat: Sources, Species, and Dynamics.

    Amélie Rouger;Odile Tresse;Monique Zagorec

  • Origin and ecological selection of core and food-specific bacterial communities associated with meat and seafood spoilage.

    Stéphane Chaillou;Aurélie Chaulot-Talmon;Hélène Caekebeke;Mireille Cardinal

  • Discovering lactic acid bacteria by genomics

    Todd Klaenhammer;Eric Altermann;Fabrizio Arigoni;Alexander Bolotin

  • Bacterial spoilers of food: behavior, fitness and functional properties.

    Benoît Remenant;Emmanuel Jaffrès;Xavier Dousset;Marie-France Pilet

  • Low-pH adaptation and the acid tolerance response of Bifidobacterium longum biotype longum.

    Borja Sánchez;Borja Sánchez;Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès;María del Carmen Collado;Patricia Anglade

  • Proteomic Analysis of Global Changes in Protein Expression during Bile Salt Exposure of Bifidobacterium longum NCIMB 8809

    Borja Sánchez;Borja Sánchez;Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès;Patricia Anglade;Fabienne Baraige

  • Single-crossover integration in the Lactobacillus sake chromosome and insertional inactivation of the ptsI and lacL genes.

    L Leloup;S D Ehrlich;M Zagorec;F Morel-Deville

  • Induction of the Bacillus subtilis ptsGHI operon by glucose is controlled by a novel antiterminator, GlcT.

    Jörg Stülke;Isabelle Martin-Verstraete;Monique Zagorec;Matthias Rose

  • Characterization and selection of Lactobacillus sakei strains isolated from traditional dry sausage for their potential use as starter cultures

    Salim Ammor;Eric Dufour;Monique Zagorec;Stéphane Chaillou

  • Divercin V41, a new bacteriocin with two disulphide bonds produced by Carnobacterium divergens V41: primary structure and genomic organization

    Anita Metivier;Marie-France Pilet;Xavier Dousset;Odile Sorokine

  • Complete genome sequence of the probiotic Lactobacillus casei strain BL23

    Alain Mazé;Alain Mazé;Grégory Boël;Grégory Boël;Manuel Zúñiga;Alexa Bourand

  • Efficient transformation of Lactobacillus sake by electroporation

    Françoise Berthier;Monique Zagorec;Marie Champomier-Vergès;S. D. Ehrlich

  • Isolation of lactic acid bacteria with inhibitory activity against pathogens and spoilage organisms associated with fresh meat.

    Rhys J. Jones;Hassan M. Hussein;Monique Zagorec;Gale Brightwell

  • Structural and functional analysis of the gene cluster encoding the enzymes of the arginine deiminase pathway of Lactobacillus sake.

    Manuel Zúñiga;Marie Champomier-Verges;Monique Zagorec;Gaspar Pérez-Martínez

  • Isolation, sequence, and regulation by oxygen of the yeast HEM13 gene coding for coproporphyrinogen oxidase.

    M Zagorec;J M Buhler;I Treich;T Keng

  • Adaptation and response of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis to bile: a proteomic and physiological approach.

    Borja Sánchez;Borja Sánchez;Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès;Birgitte Stuer-Lauridsen;Patricia Ruas-Madiedo

  • Relationships between arginine degradation, pH and survival in Lactobacillus sakei

    Marie‐Christine Champomier Vergès;Manuel Zuñiga;Françoise Morel‐Deville;Gaspar Pérez‐Martínez

  • Carbohydrate Utilization in Lactobacillus sake.

    R. Lauret;F. Morel-Deville;F. Berthier;M. Champomier-Verges

  • Lactobacillus sakei: recent developments and future prospects.

    Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès;Stéphane Chaillou;Monique Cornet;Monique Zagorec

Frequent Co-Authors

Hervé Prévost
Hervé Prévost INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Xavier Dousset
Xavier Dousset Process Engineering for Environment and Food
Borja Sánchez
Borja Sánchez Spanish National Research Council
Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán
Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán Spanish National Research Council
Abelardo Margolles
Abelardo Margolles Spanish National Research Council
Marie-Christine Montel
Marie-Christine Montel INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Abdellatif Boudabous
Abdellatif Boudabous Tunis University
Philippe Langella
Philippe Langella University of Paris-Saclay
John R. Tagg
John R. Tagg University of Otago
S. Dusko Ehrlich
S. Dusko Ehrlich University College London

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