Members' Directory

Biography: PhD in the Sander and Serrano group (91-95)
PostDoc in the Sinning Group 96-98.
At AstraZeneca from april 98 to december 2005 as team leader of the Target Production group.
At Eurogentec since 2005. First as Head of Biologics CMO unit, then CSO (2008). In Sept 2011, moved to Fremont-CA as President of Eurogentec's subsidiary AnaSpec
Director of the "Biologics" business unit at Eurogentec, Liège-Belgium. In 2008, CSO at Eurogentec-Belgium

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: 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: January 2008-present Group Leader, EMBL-CRG Systems Biology Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
2003-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Vosshall Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
2003 PhD University of Cambridge
1999-2003 Predoctoral Fellow, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
1999 BA in Theoretical Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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)