Jean-François Hocquette's Biography

Jean-François Hocquette, Director of Herbivore Unit, INRA

The authors of this abstract are:
Jean-François Hocquette1, Ruth Hamill2, Beate Hiller3, Isabelle Cassar-Malek1, Brigitte Picard1
1INRA, UR1213, Herbivore Research Unit, Theix, France
2Ruth Hamill, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland
3Research Unit Muscle Biology and Growth, Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology, Dummerstorf, Germany
JF Hocquette graduated as an Engineer in Agronomy and received a PhD in Endocrinology from the University of Paris XI. Since 1991, JF Hocquette has been a research scientist at the National Institute of Agricultural Research. In 1999, he was appointed head of the "Muscle Growth and Metabolism" and from 2007 to 2010 Director of the Herbivore Research Unit. JF Hocquette is involved in the activity of the Cattle Commission of the European Association for Animal Production. In 2005, he edited a book entitled “Indicators of milk and beef quality”. He is also a member of the French Meat Academy.