Jacques van Helden - curriculum vitae

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Address E-mail: jvhelden(at)ulb.ac.be Web site: http://www.bigre.ulb.ac.be/Users/jvanheld/ Service de Bioinformatique des Gécules et des Réseaux Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 263 Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe B-1050 Bruxelles Belgique Tel: (+32) 2 650 20 76 / 20 13 Fax: (+32) 2 650 54 25

In brief

Born: 07 January 1965, Brussels (Belgium).
Citizenship: Belgian.
Training: Agronomic Engineer, PhD thesis in developmental genetics of Drosophila. Postdocs in bioinformatics.
Current position:
chargé de cours at the l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Director of the Service de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe).
Research interest: bioinformatics of the regulation.
Teaching: bioinformatics and biostatistics.
Competence:

• bioinformatics
• biostatistics
• database development
• genetical regulation
• regulatory networks
• programming

Languages

French (mother tongue), English, Spanish, Dutch.

Training

• 1987: Ingénieur agronome (i.e.: Master of Technology in Agronomic Sciences), orientation: zoologie appliquée. Université Libre de Bruxelles - Belgium. Qualification : grande distinction (high mark).
• 1995: Docteur en Sciences Agronomiques (PhD Thesis in Agronomic Sciences). Université Libre de Bruxelles - Belgium. Qualification : la plus grande distinction  (highest mark).

Research experience

• 1987: Graduate thesis (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et d'Histologie Comparée). Supervisor: Jacqueline Naisse. Title: Relation plante-insecte au niveau du métabolisme des phytostérols et des ecdystéroides: action de 3 inhibiteurs de la biosynthèse des stérols [Plant-insect relationship in the metabolism of phytosterols and ecdysteroids: action of 3 sterol biosynthesis inhibitors].
• 1989: Research fellowship in the laboratory of Huug Schooneveld, Agricultural University (Wageningen - Netherlands). Research topic: immunocytochemical localisation of FMRF-like neuropeptides in the Colorado Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata.
• 1995: PhD Thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Service de Neurobiologie. Supervisor: Alain Ghysen. Title: Analyse fonctionnelle du complexe génique achaete-scute chez Drosophila melanogaster [Functional analysis of the achaete-scute gene complex in Drosophila melanogaster].
• 1995-96: Postdoctoral position at the Université de Montpellier II (Montpellier - France), Service de Neurogénétique du Développement (Heads: Christine Dambly-Chaudière & Alain Ghysen). Topic: installation of a digital imaging system and development of image analysis routines.
• 1997: Postdoc at the Centro de Investigación sobre la Fijacion de Nitrógeno, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Cuernavaca - Mexico), Laboratorio de Biologia Computacional (Head: Julio Collado-Vides). Research topic: computational analysis of regulatory sequences in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
• 1998-99: Postdoc at the European Institute of Bioinformatics (Cambridge - UK). (Head: Shoshana Wodak). Research topic: development of aMAZE, a database on protein function and biochemical networks.
• 1999-2003: Researcher at the Service de Conformation des Macromolécules Biologiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bruxelles - Belgium). Head: Shoshana Wodak. Research topic: development of aMAZE, a database on protein function and biochemical networks.
• 2003: Researcher at the new Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI, Lille - France). Research topic: analysis of regulatory networks.
• From September 2003: Chargé de cours (Professor) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bruxelles - Belgium).
• September-December 2006: sabbatical trimester at the Centro de Ciencias Genomicas (Cuernavaca - Mexico). Collaboration with Julio Collado-Vides on the analysis of bacterial regulation.
• Since June 2007: Head of the Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Publications

List of publications

http://www.bigre.ulb.ac.be/Users/jvanheld/HTML_CV/publications_JvH.html

Oral presentations at conferences

1. 9/1996. Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (Seattle - USA). Pattern formation and feedback loops. Oral presentation.
2. 3/1998. International Workshop on the Linguistics of Biology and the Biology of Language (Cuernavaca - Mexico). Word frequency analysis, if appropriately calibrated, allows to extract regulatory sites from yeast upstream sequences. Oral presentation.
3. 4/1998. EUROFAN (The Netherlands). A web site for the analysis of upstream regions from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Oral presentation.
4. 6/1998. Seminar on modelling and simulation of gene regulation and metabolic pathways (Daghstuhl - Germany). A web site for computational analysis of yeast regulatory sequences. Oral presentation.
5. 5/1999. XIXth International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology. (Rimini - Italy). Computational Analysis of Yeast Regulatory Sequences. Oral presentation.
6. 4/2000. Belgian Bioinformatics Conference (Bruxelles - Belgium). Graph-based tools for analysing biochemical pathways. Oral presentation.
7. 5/2000. JOBIM - Journées Ouvertes : Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (Montpellier - France). Application de l'analyse des mots et de l'analyse des graphes à l'interprétation des données d'expression génomique. Oral presentation.
8. 6/2001. ISMB, Biopathway Consortium satellite meeting (Copenhagen - Denmark). Representing and analyzing biological function with aMAZE, a database of molecular interactions and processes. Invited speaker.
9. 7/2001. HPNC conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam - The Netherlands). Representing and analyzing biological function with aMAZE, a database of molecular interactions and processes. Invited speaker.
10. 7/2001. Workshop on Bioinformatics and Genome Analysis, Ernst Schering Research Foundation (Berlin - Germany). Bioinformatics Approaches to Pathway Analysis. Invited speaker.
11. 4/2002. EMBO conference - Prokaryotes in the Third Millenium, EMBL (Heidelberg - Germany). Analysing and predicting metabolic pathways on the basis of genomic and functional genomic data. Invited speaker.
12. 6/2002. JOBIM - Satellite meeting on transcriptional regulation (Saint Malo - France). Gene classification on the basis of upstream motifs. Invited speaker (opening talk).
13. 9/2002. Avances laboratoriales en Biologia molecular y Oncologia, Sociedad de Bioquimica Clinica (Cochabamba - Bolivia). Invited speaker.
14. 1/2003. Conférence des directeurs d'unité INSERM, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Paris - France). Approches mathématiques et informatiques pour l'interprétation les données du transcriptome et du protéome. Invited speaker.
15. 11/2003. Biotecnologia Habana 2003 (La Havana - Cuba). Statistical analysis of non-coding sequences. Invited speaker.
16. 7/2004. Dagstuhl Seminars - Integrative Bioinformatics - Aspects of the Virtual Cell, Schloss Dagstuhl (Wadern - Germany). Predicting Gene Regulation by the Analysis of Non-Coding Sequences. Invited speaker.
17. 4/2005. 2nd Barbados Workshop on Genomics and Gene Regulation (Barbados). Evaluation of pattern discovery results. Invited speaker.
18. 5/2005. ESF Workshop on Transcription Networks: a global view (Madrid - Spain). Inferring meaningful pathways and functional distances in weighted metabolic networks. Invited speaker.
19. 7/2005. JOBIM 2005 (Lyon - France). Prediction of regulatory elements in non-coding sequences : Evaluation of pattern discovery results in microbes and higher organisms. Invited speaker.
20. 9/2005. Otto Warburg International Summer School and Workshop on Networks and Regulation, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) (Berlin - Germany). Assessment of pattern detection approaches for the prediction of cis-regulatory elements. Invited speaker.
21. 11/2005. Cis-regulation workshop, European Bioinformatics Institute (Hinxton - UK). Evaluating predictions of cis-regulatory elements. Invited speaker.
22. 12/2005. Colloque LIX polytechnique, Ecole polytechnique (Paris - France). Inferring meaningful pathways in weighted metabolic networks. Invited speaker.
23. 1/2006. Conférence PRO-A (Programme National sur les Maladies des OS et des Articulations), INSERM (Paris - France). Apport des nouvelles approches bio-informatiques et biostatistiques dans la recherche clinique - vers de possibles applications aux pathologies articulaires. Invited speaker.
24. 4/2006. INSERM Workshop - Identification of non-coding functional regions in genomes, INSERM (La Londe les Maure - France). Pattern discovery in genomic sequences. Invited speaker.
25. 9/2007. XIVe Rencontre de la Société francophone de classification, Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications (Paris - France). Classification de séquences génomiques sur base d'occurrences de motifs de régulation. Invited speaker.
26. 9/2008. New ideas for an old family: Heat Shock Factors at crossroads between stress, epigenetics and development, Conférence Jacques Monod: (Roscoff - France). Bioinformatics approaches for the detection of HSF binding sites in genomic sequences.. Invited speaker.
27. 1/2009. Bioinformatique de Plasmodium falciparum, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris - France). Découverte de signaux cis-régulateurs dans les séquences génomiques de Plasmodium. Invited speaker.
28. 5/2009. Journées de Biologie, Université de Boumerdes (Boumerdes - Algérie). Ce que nous enseigne l'analyse des génomes au sujet de l'évolution. Keynote speaker.
29. 6/2009. Colloque "Cent cinquante ans après l'Origine des espèces : du darwinisme de Darwin à l'évolutionnisme contemporain", Collège de France (Paris - France). Évolution de la régulation génomique: hiérarchies, rétroaction, modules et réseaux. Invited speaker. [Video]
30. 10/2009. 9ème journée thématique du Théâtre des Doms: "Darwin et la question des origines: un défi pour la pensée", Théâtre des Doms (Avignon - France). Enjeux épistémologiques et sociétaux du débat évolution-créationnisme. Invited speaker.
31. 10/2009. BioMagnet annual meeting, Universiteit Gent (Gent - Belgium). The powerful law of the power law and other myths in network biology. Invited speaker.
32. 3/2010. Atelier INSERM: "Biological networks: from molecular biology to bioinformatics" (Saint Raphaël - France). Neetwork Analysis Tools. Invited speaker.

Invited seminars

1. 3/2000. Séminaire Algorithmique et Biologie, Institut Pasteur (Paris - France). String-based approaches to pattern discovery in non-coding DNA sequences.
2. 3/2001. Réunion IMPG, ESIL Marseille Luminy (Marseille - France). Représentation et analyse de la fonction biologique au moyen d'une base de données d'interactions et de processus moléculaires.
3. 6/2001. Séminaire génopole, Génopole (Evry - France). Détection d'éléments de régulation dans les séquences non-codantes.
4. 6/2001. Séminaire génopole, Génopole (Evry - France). Représentation et analyse des fonctions biologiques au moyen d'aMAZE, une base de données d'interactions et de processus moléculaires.
5. 9/2001. Séminaire Algorithmique et Biologie (Lyon - France). Prediction of transcriptional regulation by the analysis of non-coding sequences.
6. 9/2001. Séminaire génopole, ESIL Marseille Luminy (Marseille - France). Détection d'éléments de régulation par analyse des séquences non-codantes.
7. 1/2002. Génopole (Lille - France). Analyse des séquences régulatrices et des données d'expression.
8. 5/2002. Institut Pasteur (Paris - France). Prédiction des éléments cis-régulateurs de levure par analyse des séquences non-codantes.
9. 10/2002. Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie humaine et moléculaire (Bruxelles - Belgique). Inferring metabolic pathways from microarray data.
10. 11/2002. Séminaire "Langage du Génome", IGM Orsay (Orsay - France). Analyse de séquences régulatrices - Détection de motifs et classification de gènes sur base de comptages de mots..
11. 5/2003. Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris - France). Classifying genes on the basis of cis-acting regulatory elements.
12. 1/2004. University of Gottingen (Gottingen - Germany). Classifying regulatory sequences on the basis of predicted signals.
13. 3/2004. Workshop on Regulatory Sequence Motif Discovery, MCB (Uppsala - Sweden). Random models for pattern discovery.
14. 3/2004. Universitat de Valencia (Valencia - Spain). Prediction of regulatory elements by the analysis of non-coding sequences.
15. 3/2006. Colloquium MAPA, Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve - Belgium). Applications de la théorie des graphes pour l'analyse des réseaux métaboliques. Invited speaker.
16. 2/2007. BioMagnet Kick-off meeting, Université de Liège (Liège - Belgique). Research activites of the Service des Conformation des Macromolécules Biologiques et de Bioinformatique. Invited speaker.
17. 3/2007. Séminaire GIGA, Université de Liège (Liège - Belgique). Inferring co-regulation networks from microbial genomes. Invited speaker.
18. 7/2007. Technische Universitat Dresden (Dresden - Germany). Inferring co-regulation networks from microbial genomes. Invited speaker.

Other scientific meetings

• 1989: NATO course "Systems Approaches to Developmental Neurobiology" (Varenna - Italy).
• 1991: 3rd EMBO Practical Course on Advanced Digital Light Microscopy (Heidelberg - Germany).
• 1994: I took an active part in the organization of the Vth European Symposium on Drosophila Neurobiology (La Grande Motte - France).
• 1997: International Symposium on Nitrogen metabolism in Ascomycetes (Cuernavaca - Mexico).

Referring activities

Scientific journals

• BMC Bioinformatics
• PLoS Computational Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Nucleic Acids Research
• Journal of Molecular Biology
• Journal of Theoretical Biology
• Functional & Integrative Genomics
• In silico Biology
• Médecine-Science

Grant submissions

• BBSRC - UK
• IMPG - France
• INRIA - France
• IWT - Belgium

Scientific committees of conferences

• 2001: 2nd Belgian Bioinformatics Conference 2001 (BBC'01, Gent - Belgique).
• 2001: Journées Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathématiques (JOBIM 2001, Toulouse - France).
• 2002: 3rd Belgian Bioinformatics Conference 2002 (BBC'01, Namur - Belgique).
• 2003. 4th Belgian Bioinformatics Conference (Leuven - Belgium).
• 9/2003. 3rd Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (Budapest - Hungary).
• 2003. XXI International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (Göteborg - Sweden). Comparing genomes (workshop).
• 9/2007. International workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology. (Evry - France). Scientific committee.
• 4/2008. Benelux Bioinformatics Conference (Leuven - Belgium). Scientific committee.
• 8/2008. JOBIM 2008 (Lille - France). Programming committee.

Teaching

Courses currently taught

1. Statistiques appliquées à la bioinformatique (STAT-F-419 (ex-STAT-F-506))
   Statistics applied to bioinformatics
   2ECTS cours + 1 ECTS travaux pratiques
2. Analyse des réseaux d'interactions moléculaires (BMOL-F-501)
   Analysis of molecular interaction networks
   1ECTS cours + 1ECTS travaux personnels
3. Génomique, protéomique et évolution (BIOL-F-449)
   Genomics, proteomics and evolution
   Bruno André, Jacques van Helden & Patrick Mardulyn
   Je donne 2ECTS de cours
4. Biologie et société (BIOL-F-105)
   Biology and Society
   2ECTS cours

5. Enjeux sociaux et écologiques de la biologie (BIOL-D-101)
   Social and ecological issues of biology
   2ECTS cours + 1ECTS travaux personnels

6. Bioinformatique appliquée au secteur agro-alimentaire (BING-F-527)
   Bioinformatics applied to the agri-food domain.
   Dimitri Gillis & Jacques van Helden
   Je donne 1ECTS de cours

Courses taught in the past

• 2000-2002. DiplĂ´me Inter-Universitaire d'Études Approfondies en Bioinformatique. Contribution au DEA:
  • membre du comité fondateur et organisateur
  • Coordinateur (30h) et enseignant (12h) pour le cours de Statistiques appliquées à la bioinformatique
  • Enseignant (6h) pour le cours de Génomique fonctionnelle
  • Enseignant (2h) pour le cours de Modélisation
  • Enseignant (1h) pour le cours de Bases de données
• 2002-2003.DEA/DES inter-universitaire en Bioinformatique. ULB (Bruxelles - Belgique).
  • Statistics applied to bioinformatics. Coordinateur (30h) et enseignant (15h).
  • Analysis of microarray data (5h TP).
  • Analysis of regulatory sequences (2h + 3h TP).
  • Application of graph theory to the analysis of metabolic pathways (2h).
  • Bioinformatics : practical projects (40h TP).
• 2003 - 2005. Candidatures en sociologie et anthropologie. ULB (Bruxelles - Belgique).
  • Enjeux sociaux et écologiques de la biologie (30h + 15h séminaire).

Occasional courses as invited teacher

• 1999: Bioinformatica 99 (La Havana, Cuba): Atelier d'introduction à la Bioinformatique : analyse des séquences d'acides nucléiques et protéiques.
  • Genomics and its impact in pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology.
  • Internet resources for sequence analysis (Cours + travaux pratiques).
• 2000 (Janvier). Cours de formation interdisciplinaire pour doctorants. Université de Namur (Belgique).
  • Génomique fonctionnelle : l'analyse des séquences non-codantes (2h).
• 2000 (Avril). BioCentrum AIO Course on Bioinformatics in Molecular Biology. Biocentrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Pays-Bas.
  • Pattern recognition and searching in non-coding sequences (3h cours + 3h travaux pratiques).
• 2000 (Novembre). BioCentrum AIO Course on Bioinformatics in Molecular Biology. Biocentrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Pays-Bas.
  • Regulatory sequence analysis (3h cours + 3h travaux pratiques).
• 2000 (Décembre). Wageningen (Pays-Bas) - Winterschool in bioinformatics. Conférencier invité. Exposés :
  • Detection of regulatory elements in non-coding sequences (45')
  • Representations of biological function and processes in databases (45')
• 2001 (Février). LIRMM (Montpellier - France). Séminaire dans le cadre du DiplĂ´me d'Enseignement Approfondi (DEA) en Informatique.
  • aMAZE: représentation et analyse de la fonction biologique au moyen d'une base de données d'interactions et de processus moléculaires (2h).
• 2001 (Mai). Université de Montpellier II. Séminaire dans le cadre du DiplĂ´me d'Enseignement Approfondi (DEA) en Neurogénétique.
  • Approches bioinformatiques pour la détection d'éléments de régulation dans les séquences non-codantes (2h)
• 2001 (Mai). BioCentrum AIO Course on Bioinformatics in Molecular Biology. Biocentrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Pays-Bas.
  • Regulatory sequence analysis (3h cours + 3h travaux pratiques).
• 2001 (Septembre). DEA BBSG Bioinformatique fonctionnelle (20-23 Novembre) (Marseille - France).
  • aMAZE: représentation et analyse de la fonction biologique au moyen d'une base de données d'interactions et de processus moléculaires (2h)
• 2001 (Novembre). BioCentrum AIO Course on Bioinformatics in Molecular Biology. Biocentrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Pays-Bas.
  • Regulatory sequence analysis (3h cours + 3h travaux pratiques).
• 2001 (Décembre). Wageningen (Pays-Bas) - Winterschool in bioinformatics. Conférencier invité (extended talk).
  • Representations and analysis of biochemical networks
• 2002 (Février). Université de Gand (Belgique).
  • Graph-based analysis of metabolic pathways (2h).
• 2002 (Juin). BioCentrum AIO Course on Bioinformatics in Molecular Biology. Biocentrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam - Pays-Bas.
  • Regulatory sequence analysis (3h cours + 3h travaux pratiques).
• 2002.Mission de la Coopération Universitaire au Développement. Universidad de Cochabamba (Cochabamba - Bolivie).
  • Bioinformatica (15h + 30h TP).
• 2002.Atelier de formation INSERM "From functional genomic data to the dynamical analysis of molecular networks". INSERM (La Londe-Les-Maures - France).
  • Analysis of regulatory sequences (1h + 3h TP).
• 2002.Interdisciplinary school Imaging, modelling, manipulating transcriptional regulatory networks. Université de Lille (Ambleteuse - France).
  • Inferring metabolic pathways from gene expression data (1h).
• 2002.Master of Bioinformatics. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven - Belgique).
  • Application of graph theory to the analysis of metabolic pathways (2h).
• 2003.BioCentrum AIO Course on Bioinformatics in Molecular Biology. Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam - Pays-Bas).
  • Analysis of regulatory sequences (2h + 3h semin).
• 2003.Trimestre "maths/info/genome" . Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris - France).
  • L'analyse des séquences régulatrices.
• 2003.Bioinformatica 2003 - Taller de introduccion a la bioinformatica. Instituto de Biotecnologia (La Havana - Cuba).
  • Analysis of regulatory sequences (3h + 3h TP).
• 2003.Formation INSERM. Génop&ohat;le (Lille - France).
  • Analyse statistiques des données de puces à ADN (6h + 6h TP).

Programming

• Environments: Unix, Windows and Macintosh.
• Languages: java, object-oriented Perl, SQL (and previously Prolog, C, Pascal).

• 1997-now: Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools (http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/rsat/). A software suite for the analysis of regulatory sequences: sequence retrieval, detection of putative regulatory sites, pattern matching, automatic drawing of feature maps.
  The web interface provides a user-friendly access for biologists, and is currently installed in several countries (Belgium, Mexico, Sweden). The current access rate is ~10,000 queries per month.
  This project started during my postdoc in Cuernavaca (Mexico). In 1998, the programs were made available on the web, under the name Yeast-tools. Since 2000, additional genomes have been installed, and the web interface currently provides access to 108 genomes.
  The programs were developed in Perl, and the Web interface in perl-cgi.

• 1998-2000: aMAZE, a database of Protein Function and Biochemical Pathways. (http://www.amaze.ulb.ac.be/). I developed several components of the database. I wrote the parsers for data import (in Object-oriented -Perl), and I developed java classes (diagram management, automatic layout and display of metabolic pathways, query tools, ...).

• 1998-1999: Pathway analysis . In collaboration with David Gilbert (City University, London - UK). Prototype programs for the graph-based analysis of metabolic pathways. The development was based on the use of constrained logical programming (prolog). Inbetween, the programs have been re-coded in java and integrated in the aMAZE database.

• 1991-1996: Image analysis. I developed extensions for the programs NIH-Image (in Pascal on Macintosh platform), and IPLab (in C on Macintosh platform). These extensions add functionalities to image analysis programs, such as control of microscope devices (focus controller, shutter, filter wheel), image improvement (rank filtering, deconvolution), image analysis (axonal tracking).

• 1996: MorphoLogical. Analysis of regulatory networks involved in the development of multicellular organisms, implementation of the Logical Method (developed by René Thomas and coworkers). Written in Pascal for Macintosh.

• 1994: AjustePoils. This program was developed for the comparison of bristle positions between mutant strains of Drosophila melanogaster (Huang et al., 1995). Written in Think Pascal on a Macintosh Platform, with use of Macintosh Toolbox (menus, dialog boxes, event handling).

Extra-academic activities

• 1984 : Vice-president of the "Cercle du libre-examen", student association organizing conferences and social activities.
• 1985 : Member of the committee in the Cercle d'Information sur le Service Civil et la Coopération au Développement (student association organizing debates and activities about North-South relationships).
• 1989-1992 : Founder and vice-president of the non-governmental organization (NGO) APRAD : Association pour la Recherche-Action en matière de Développement (http://www.aprad.org).
  • 1991: Organizer of the First Belgian Festival of NGO movie
  • 1992: Organizer of the Second International Festival of NGO movie
• 1999-2001 : representative of non-governmental Organizations in the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development (commissions "Research orientation" and "Genetically Modified Organisms").
  • 2001 (March): involved in the organization of the workshop Sustainable agriculture in the third world: defining a role for transgenic crops and research. Member of the editing committee for the acts of the workshop.
• 2002 (October): organisation of a round-table on the partneship between University and Non-Governmental Organisations (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

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