Alain Stintzi obtained his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Louis-Pasteur University, France (1997). He was subsequently a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, where he worked on siderophore mediated iron transport. In 2000, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Oklahoma State University. He became Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Microbobiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, and a member of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology in July 2005. His current research seeks to understand how Campylobacter jejuni colonizes the host gastrointestinal tract by using integrative approaches. He has also a strong research interest in the contribution of the gut microbiota to human health and disease, particularly pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.