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Stéphane Lair

Santé de la faune. Santé des animaux aquatiques et des animaux exotiques en captivité.

Professeur titulaire

Faculté de médecine vétérinaire - Département de sciences cliniques

Pavillon 3200, rue Sicotte - Aile A, room 2915

514 343-6111 #8667

stephane.lair@umontreal.ca

Secondary numbers: 450 773-8521 #8427 (Travail 2) 450 773-8521 #8667 (Travail 1)

Profile

Research expertise

  • Évaluation de la santé de la faune.
  • Effet de l'activité humaine sur la santé de la faune.
  • Santé des animaux aquatiques (poissons et mammifères marins)
  • Aspect humanitaire et technique de recherche chez les animaux sauvages
  • Bien-être des animaux exotiques en captivité.
  • Anesthésie et l'analgésie des espèces non-domestiques

education

  • 1999 — Diplomate — — American College of Zoological Medicine
  • 1998 — D.V.Sc. en médecine et pathologie des animaux de zoo — — Université de Guelph
  • 1995 — Résidence — Pathologie généraleUniversité de Montréal
  • 1990 — I.P.S.A.V. en pathologie aviaire — —
  • 1989 — D.M.V. — — Université de Montréal

Affiliations and responsabilities

Research affiliations

Research units

Directeur

Directeur régional (Québec) du Centre canadien coopératif de la santé de la faune

Professional titles and affiliations

Clinical and professional activities

Directeur du centre Québécois sur la santé des animaux sauvages (CQSAS)

Teaching and supervision

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

2022

Évaluation de la toxicité du kétoprofène chez le dragon barbu (Pogona vitticeps)

Graduate : Vigneault, Annabelle
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.

Projects

Research projects

2023 - 2025

Bridging research efforts to optimize body condition evaluation in two beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) populations: Blubber stratification and use of "omics" techniques to identify biomarkers of body condition

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Marine Mammal Commission
Grant programs:
2022 - 2025

Possible epidemiological mechanisms for land-sea transmission of Toxoplasma gondii in the endangered St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus leucas) population

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: American Association of Zoo Veterinarians
Grant programs:
2023 - 2024

St. Lawrence River: Understanding the importance of poor body condition, diseases, and contaminant exposure in the mortality of at-risk belugas and harbour porpoises

Lead researcher : Jonathan Verreault
Co-researchers : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Pêches et Océans Canada
Grant programs:
2022 - 2023

Health of marine mammals in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Atlantic regions - Investigation of the 2022 unusual mortality events and identification of potential emerging threats for cetaceans and pinnipeds in a changing ecosystem.

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Pêches et Océans Canada
Grant programs:
2018 - 2023

Occurrence and Health Impacts of Legacy and Novel Environmental Contaminants in the Endangered St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga

Lead researcher : Jonathan Verreault
Co-researchers : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Pêches et Océans Canada
Grant programs:
2018 - 2019

ÉVALUATION DE L'ÉTAT DE SANTÉ DES LOUPS ATLANTIQUES EN MILIEU NATUREL ET COMPARAISON AVEC LES LOUPS ATLANTIQUES GARDÉS EN AQUARIUM

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Société zoologique de Granby
Grant programs:
2018 - 2019

Étude pharmacocinétique du sélamectin après administration d’une dose unique transcutanée chez les loriquets arc-en-ciel (Trichoglossus haematodus)

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Société zoologique de Granby
Grant programs:
2016 - 2017

Canada's National Wildlife Disease Program - The Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC)

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Centre canadien coopératif de la santé de la faune
Grant programs:
2016

Evaluation of carotenoid assimilation in leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius)

Lead researcher : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians
Grant programs:
2007 - 2016

AVIAN INFLUENZ SURVEILLANCE (COOPERATIVE FUNDINGS)

Co-researchers : Stéphane Lair
Funding sources: Centre canadien coopératif de la santé de la faune
Grant programs:

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

Lair S, Measures LN, Martineau D. Pathologic Findings and Trends in Mortality in the Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Population of the St Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada, From 1983 to 2012. Veterinary pathology. 2016;53(1):22-36.

Lair, S., L.N. Measures, D. Martineau. Mortality in the Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Population of the St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada. Veterynary Pathology 53(1): 22-36. 2016.

Lair, S., Gentes, M-L. et Measures, L.N. 2015. Documentation de l'évolution du protocole d'examen des carcasses de béluga de l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent de 1983 à 2012. Rapp. tech. can. sci. halieut. aquat. 3143 : viii + 65 p.

Bellehumeur, C., S. Lair, O. Nielsen, C.A. Gagnon. Identification of a novel herpesvirus associated with a penile proliferative lesion in a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas). Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51(1): 244–249, 2015.

Fortin, J.S., Santamaria-Bouvier, A., Lair, S., Dallaire, A.D. Benoit-Biancamano, M-O. Anatomic and molecular characterization of the endocrine pancreas of a teleostean fish: Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) Zoological Studies, 54:21 2015.

Tarabeux J, Zeitouni B, Moncoutier V, Tenreiro H, Abidallah K, Lair S, et al. Streamlined ion torrent PGM-based diagnostics: BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes as a model. European journal of human genetics : EJHG. 2014;22(4):535-41.

Servant N, Romejon J, Gestraud P, La Rosa P, Lucotte G, Lair S, et al. Bioinformatics for precision medicine in oncology: principles and application to the SHIVA clinical trial. Frontiers in genetics. 2014;5:152.

Houde M, Giraudo M, Douville M, Bougas B, Couture P, De Silva AO, et al. A multi-level biological approach to evaluate impacts of a major municipal effluent in wild St. Lawrence River yellow perch (Perca flavescens). The Science of the total environment. 2014;497-498:307-18.

Delnatte P, Lair S, Beauchamp G, Fitzgerald G. Assessment of regrowth of flight feathers after manual removal in American kestrels (Falco sparverius). Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine : official publication of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. 2014;45(3):600-10.

Rasambainarivo FT, Gillespie TR, Wright PC, Arsenault J, Villeneuve A, Lair S. Survey of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in lemurs from the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Journal of wildlife diseases. 2013;49(3):741-3.

Larrat S, Bouchard F, Seguin G, Lair S. Relationship between red vent syndrome and anisakid larvae burden in wild atlantic salmon (salmo salar). Journal of wildlife diseases. 2013;49(2):229-34.

Ducrocq J, Beauchamp G, Kutz S, Simard M, Taillon J, Cote SD, et al. Variables associated with Besnoitia tarandi prevalence and cyst density in barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations. Journal of wildlife diseases. 2013;49(1):29-38.

Begeman L, St Leger JA, Blyde DJ, Jauniaux TP, Lair S, Lovewell G, et al. Intestinal volvulus in cetaceans. Veterinary pathology. 2013;50(4):590-6.

Larrat S, Simard M, Lair S, Belanger D, Proulx JF. From science to action and from action to science: the Nunavik Trichinellosis Prevention Program. International journal of circumpolar health. 2012;71:18595.

Mainguy J, Rees EE, Canac-Marquis P, Belanger D, Fehlner-Gardiner C, Seguin G, et al. Oral rabies vaccination of raccoons and striped skunks with ONRAB(R) baits: multiple factors influence field immunogenicity. Journal of wildlife diseases. 2012;48(4):979-90.

Larrat S, Marvin J, Lair S. Low sensitivity of antemortem gill biopsies for the detection of subclinical Pseudodactylogyrus bini infestations in American eels (Anguilla rostrata). Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine : official publication of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. 2012;43(1):190-2.

Larrat S, Marvin J, Lair S. Safety and efficacy of emamectin benzoate to treat Anguillicoloides crassus (Kuwahara, Niimi & Itagaki) infections in American eels, Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur). Journal of fish diseases. 2012;35(6):467-70.

Larrat S, Locke S, Dallaire AD, Fitzgerald G, Marcogliese DJ, Lair S. Fatal aerosacculitis and pneumonia associated with Eucoleus sp. (nematoda: capillaridae) in the lungs of a Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus). Journal of wildlife diseases. 2012;48(3):832-4.

Larrat S, Dallaire AD, Lair S. Emaciation and larval filarioid nematode infection in boreal owls (Aegolius funereus). Avian pathology : journal of the WVPA. 2012;41(4):345-9.

Ducrocq J, Beauchamp G, Kutz S, Simard M, Elkin B, Croft B, et al. Comparison of gross visual and microscopic assessment of four anatomic sites to monitor Besnoitia tarandi in barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus). Journal of wildlife diseases. 2012;48(3):732-8.

Desmarchelier M, Troncy E, Fitzgerald G, Lair S. Analgesic effects of meloxicam administration on postoperative orthopedic pain in domestic pigeons (Columba livia). American journal of veterinary research. 2012;73(3):361-7.

Desmarchelier M, Troncy E, Beauchamp G, Paul-Murphy JR, Fitzgerald G, Lair S. Evaluation of a fracture pain model in domestic pigeons (Columba livia). American journal of veterinary research. 2012;73(3):353-60.

Disciplines

  • Veterinary Sciences
  • Biology and Related Sciences
  • Water and Environment

Areas of expertise

  • Faune
  • Animaux exotiques
  • Médecine zoologique