Janice Bailey is Professor of Animal Sciences and Research Associate Dean of the Faculty of Food & Agricultural Sciences at Laval University in Québec City, Canada. She earned a BSA (1987) and an MSc (1989) from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, followed by a PhD from the University of Guelph (Canada) in 1992 in Reproductive Physiology. She then conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Centre, where she was fortunate to work with Dr. Bayard Storey and collaborated with other outstanding teams on fertilization mechanisms. In 1994, she joined Université Laval as Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, learned French, had a family, and rose through the ranks, being promoted to Professor in 2003. She was appointed Research Associate Dean of the Faculty of Food & Agricultural Sciences in 2011. She is member of the “CRBR” or Reproductive Biology Research Centre (Centre de Recherche en Biologie de la Reproduction; www.crbr.ulaval.ca/), a unique bi-faculty Centre composed of researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Food & Agricultural Sciences. She is also chair of the Knowledge Translation Committee for the “RQR” or Quebec Reproduction Network (Reseau Québécois en Reproduction; www.rqr.umontreal.ca/index.php/en/), which unites more than 80 researchers and 250 students in research in the field of reproductive biology from seven universities, government and industry. Professor Bailey’s research focusses on three interconnecting themes that range from fundamental reproductive biology to applied animal science and health research. (1) Her work on sperm biology and fertilization has helped to characterize the mechanisms of capacitation. (2) Her research on cold-induced cell damage revealed that cooling/freezing induces non-regulated capacitation in mammalian sperm, providing a new explanation for the reduced fertility of cryopreserved semen while opening the doors to novel strategies for cryoprotection. (3) Her work using toxicants, particularly those contaminating the Arctic food chain, has revealed that early life exposure has detrimental effects on male reproductive development and function.