Department of Quality Assurance and Process Innovation, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Biography
obtained his Master in Biology-Plant Biotechnology at Ghent University (1992) and PhD under the supervision of Geert Angenon and Marc Van Montagu at the Laboratory of Genetics, Ghent University (Belgium, 1998), studying plant seed storage protein synthesis. During PhD, hehave also been a visiting researcher at CIAT in Cali (Colombia) in the group of César Cardona. experienced in yeast and plant functional genomics, molecular biology and applied biotechnology. current research aspires to understand jasmonate signaling in model, crop and medicinal plants and unravel the mechanisms that steer plant growth and metabolism in response to developmental and environmental cues.
