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Biography: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 01/01, European Commission DG RTD, Brussels, Belgium, Scientific Officer: Scientific management of EU research projects in radioprotection and health.

07/98-12/00, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN), Mol, Belgium, Head of the radiobiology unit: Molecular effects of ionizing radiation, genetic susceptibility, cancer.

12/97-06/98, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom,Swiss-prot Curator: Bio-computing, protein databases (molecular viroroly).

11/94-11/97, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, (Professor M. Yaniv), Post-doctoral Research Scientist: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virology, Cell Cycle, apoptosis.

10/87-10/94, Département de Biologie Moléculaire (ULB), Brussels, (Professor A. Burny), Research Scientist: Molecular Biology, Virology, Transcription, Oncogenes.

10/84-10/86, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology (ICP), (Prof. G. Rousseau), Research Associate: Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Nutrition.

Education

04/1997 Bio-computing, Institut Pasteur, France.
06/1994 Doctor in Science (Ph.D.), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.
09/1984 Graduate Agronomist Engineer, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.

Biography: 1996 Diploma in Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany
1999 PhD in Cell Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
2000 Postdoc at EMBL, Gene expression program, group Izaurralde
2001-2003 Postdoc, M.E. Müller Institute, Biozentrum, University of Basel
2003-2009 Independent Group leader, M.E. Müller Institute, Biozentrum, University of Basel
since Oct. 2009 Assistant Professor for Cell Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, IBMM

Biography: 2012 - : Assitant Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
2011 : Research Scientist, INFAI GmbH, Cologne, Germany
2008-2010: Senior Scientist, Vernalis R&D, Cambridge, UK
2006-2007: Visitor Scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
2004-2005: Bayer postdoc, Bayer Pharma Research Centre, Wuppertal, Germany
2003-2004: Max-Planck Fellow, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
2001-2002: Marie Curie Trainingsite Fellowship, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
1998-2001: PhD in solution state NMR spectroscopy, Debrecen, Hungary

Biography: 1984-1988 Master in Biochemistry - Technical University Gent (B)
1989-1990 Technician - University Gent (B) - Lab of Microbiology & Biochemistry
1990-1997 Technician - Protein & Peptide Group (Kellner & Mann)
1997-1999 Postdoc - VIB Dept. of Biomedical Proteinresearch
1999-2004 Head of the Chromatography Lab - BASF Antwerpen
2004- ... Project Manager - BASF Antwerpen

Biography: PhD in lab. Molecular Biology (Walter Fiers) at University of Gent, Belgium, 1985, then EMBO long-term fellow at Cell Biology Program, EMBL. From 1988, senior scientist at Innogenetics SA, gent, Belgium. From end 1991: Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven (teaching Developmental Biology). From 1996 also head of a department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Main current interest: TGFbeta signalling in vertebrate embryogenesis.

Biography: I graduated in 1982 as an engineer (MEng) with a dissertation on the sequencing of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA border regions. The experimental work was performed at the Department of Genetics, University of Ghent (HoD, Prof. M. Van Montagu). My first job was as a Technical Assistant to Prof. M. Zabeau at the EMBL, Heidelberg, working on the EcoRI modification system. By the end of 1983 I moved back to Ghent to work in Plant Genetic Systems where I was involved in various projects but by 1986 I decided to 'go back to school' and travelled to South Africa for PhD studies in Microbiology. After obtaining my PhD in 1990 (University of Cape Town) for my work on nitrogen metabolism in Clostridium acetobutylicum I did a 2-year post-doc in Prof. L. Sonenshein's lab at Tufts University, Boston, once again working on nitrogen metabolism but this time in B. subtillus. This was followed by several post-doc positions in Wageningen, Leiden, and Ghent, entailing taxonomic studies on the genera Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, and Xanthomonas (1996-1998), and a Glaxo-Wellcome post-doctoral Fellowship at the Rega Institute of the Catholic University of Louvain (1998-2000). From January 2000 to early 2002 I was a TMR Fellow in Bioinformatics at the EBI-Hinxton (Cambridge). I worked briefly at the University of Liege in frame of an ongoing project for the European Space Agency to study genetic stability of bacteria under space conditions. I now continue this work at the SCK-CEN as a tenured scientist, while pursuing other research interests entailing T-RFLP based community analysis, bacterial radiotolerance, bioremediation, in-house genome projects (Cupriavidus metallidurans, Arthrospira platensis), and reconstruction of transcription regulatory networks.

Biography: 1994-1998 University of Antwerp, Chemistry/Biochemistry
1998-2003 PhD at University of Antwerp (human genetics)
2003-2005 postdoc at University of Antwerp (human genetics)

Biography: 2005 (Dec)- today: Scientific Director, DMS Biotechnology (Brussels, BE)
2004-2005 (Dec): Executive Vice President, Meristem Therapeutics (Clermont-Ferrand, FR)
2001-2004: Chief Operating Officer, Bioprotein (Paris, FFR)
1997-2001: Scientific Director, Dept. Manager (Biochemistry), 4C Biotech (Seneffe, BE)
1991-1997: Scientist, Innogenetics (Ghent, BE)
1989-1991: Post-Doctoral Scientist, EMBL (heidelberg, D)