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Dirk Inzé
Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name Inzé
Given Names Dirk, Gustaaf
Date birth October 19th
1957
Nationality Belgian
Sex Male
Marital state Married
Children 2
Work address VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Technologiepark 71
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
tel. +32 9 33 13 806
dirk.inze@psb.vib-ugent.be
Education
Ghent University Master in Biology
Biochemistry and molecular biology
Greatest distinction
1976 – 1979
Ghent University PhD in Biology
“A genetic study of the pTiC58 of
agrobacterium tumefaciens”
Greatest distinction
1979 - 1984
Current positions
2023-current Emeritus Group Leader ‘Innovative Breeding’ at VIB-Ugent Center for
Plant Systems Biology (Belgium)
Former positions
1979-1984 PhD studentship with the Belgian Science Foundation (FWO), Ghent
University (Belgium)
1984-1990 Junior Group Leader (FWO) at the Laboratory of Genetics of Ghent, Ghent
University (Belgium)
1990-1998 Research Director (1st class) at the INRA (Institut National de La
Recherche Agronomique) (France)
1993-1997 Guest Professor at Ghent University (Belgium)
1998-1999 Scientific Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the biotech company
CropDesign (Belgium)
1999-2002 Vice-Scientific Director of the Department of Genetics, Ghent
University/VIB (Belgium)
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2002 - 2023 Full Professor at Ghent University (Belgium)
Plant Biotechnology and Plant Physiology
2002 -2023 Science Director and Head of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems
Biology (Belgium)
Guest professor
1993-1995 Graduate course in Molecular Biology: Plant Molecular Biology (5h) (Vrij
Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
1994-1995 DEA Phytopathology: Stress Oxidative (3h) (University of Orsay, Paris)
1994-1995 Plant Molecular Biology course (15h) (University of Lisboa, Portugal)
1995-1996 School of Biotechnology: Molecular Biology of Plants course (3h) (Oulu,
Finland)
1996-1997 Plant Developmental Biology course (15h) (Plovidv, Bulgaria)
2000 Cell Cycle course “The Plant Cell” (Université Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium)
2006 Francqui Lecture Course “Cell Division in Plants” (15h) (University of
Antwerp, Belgium)
Invited lectures in research institutes
Australia Melbourne
Austria Vienna (5x)
Belgium Antwerp (4x), Brussels (2x), Ghent (14x), Kruissem, Liège, Louvain-la-Neuve
(2x), Mons
Brazil Ilhéus, Sao Paulo
Bulgaria Albena, Kostinbrod, Plovdiv (2x), Varna
Canada Québec, Saskatoon (x2), Toronto
China Beijing (2x), Hong Kong, Suzhou, Wuhan
Cuba Havana
Czech Republic Brno, Ceské Budejovice, Liblice, Prague (2x)
Cyprus Limassol
Denmark Aarhus, Copenhagen (2x), Holeby
Finland Helsinki (4x)
France Amiens (2x), Annecy, Arc-et-Senans, Aussois, Compiègne, Dourdan, Gif-surYvette,
Grenoble, La-Colle-sur-Loup, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nice (2x),
Orsay, Paris (3x), St-Pierre-des-Corps, Strasbourg (2x), Versailles (4x)
Germany Bielefeld, Bonn (2x), Brno, Cologne (3x), Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (2x), Freising,
Gatersleben, Golm, Halle (2x), Hamburg (2x), Heidelberg, Kiel, Münich (3x),
Münster, Palatina, Potsdam, St. Johann
Greece Athens, Heraklion
Hungary Budapest (3x), Gödöllo, Szeged (2x)
Ireland Dublin
Israel Jerusalem
Italy Cortona, Florence (4x), Island of Capri, Maratea, Verona, Viterbo
Japan Chiba (3x), Kyoto (2x), Nara, Okazaki, Tokyo (2x), Yokohama (4x)
Korea Jeju Island (3x)
Luxemburg Neumünster
Mexico Cuernavaca, Irapuato, Taos
Norway Tromsoe
Poland Cracow, Poznan,Warschau
Portugal Porto
Singapore Singapore (2x)
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Russia Pushchino
Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Sengal Dakar
South Africa Capetown
Spain Alicante, Barcelona (4x), Cadiz, Elche (2x), Granada, Madrid (3x), Valencia (3x)
Sweden Uppsala (2x), Vastergotland
Switzerland Basel, Brunnen, Davos, Lausanne, Les Diablerets, Stein
Taiwan Taipei (x2)
Thailand Bangkok (2x)
The Netherlands Amsterdam (4x), Egmond-aan-Zee (2x), Lunteren, Utrecht (2x), Veldhoven
Turkey Istanbul
UK Bournemouth, Bristol, Cumbria, Edinburgh, London (4x), Nottingham,
Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton (2x), Sutton Bonington, York
USA Arizona, Chicago, Colorado, Florida, Honolulu, Idaho, Illinois, Madison,
Maryland, Missouri (5x), New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina (2x), Utah, Wisconsin
Invited speaker at national and international meetings
1985
01/10/1985 – 04/10/1985 International Symposium of the Associazione Genetica Italiana
(Cortona, Italy)
1987
24/04/1987 – 26/04/1987 International Symposium on the Application of New Biotechnological
and Genetic Methods in Agriculture (Albena, Bulgaria)
28/09/1987 – 02/10/1987 International Symposium on "Physiology and Biochemistry of Auxins
in Plants" (Liblice, Czechoslovakia)
01/10/1987 – 03/10/1987 International Symposium on Plant Genetic Engineering (Pushchino,
U.S.S.R.)
1988
04/07/1988 – 08/07/1988 2nd
International Symposium on Primary and Secondary Metabolism
on Plant Cell Cultures (Saskatoon, Canada)
1989
06/06/1989 – 09/06/1989 International Symposium on "Agricultural Application of
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering" (Varna, Bulgaria)
10/07/1989 – 12/07/1989 International Symposium on "The Impact of Biotechnology in
Agriculture" (Amiens, France)
22/08/1989 – 01/09/1989 EMBO Course on "Protein Electroblotting and Microsequencing"
(Ghent, Belgium)
18/09/1989 – 23/09/1989 Symposium of the Society of Experimental Biology on "Hormone
Perception and Signal Transduction in Animals and Plants" (Sutton
Bonington, UK)
08/11/1989 – 10/11/1989 Nordic Advanced Course in Plant Molecular Biology (Uppsala,
Sweden)
1990
02/06/1990 – 05/06/1990 4th
International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Vienna,
Austria)
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17/06/1990 – 22/06/1990 Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference on "Cells and Signals"
(Andover, New Hampshire, USA)
17/07/1990 – 22/07/1990 International Joint Symposium on "Biology and Chemistry of Active
Natural Substances" (Bonn, Germany)
19/08/1990 – 24/08/1990 20th
Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
(Budapest, Hungary)
25/09/1990 – 28/09/1990 Eurosilva Workshop on "Tree Root Physiology" (Aussois, France)
1991
04/04/1991 NERC Tree Biotechnology Liaison Group (Oxford, UK)
04/09/1991 – 06/09/1991 Hormone Group Colloquium of the Biochemical Society on
“Molecular Biology of Plant Hormones and their Receptor"
(Edinburgh, UK)
07/10/1991 – 12/10/1991 3rd
International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology on "Molecular
Biology of Plant Growth and Development" (Tucson, AZ, USA)
16/10/1991 – 18/10/1991 1st
General Colloquium of the French Society of Plant Physiology on
"Plant Sciences" (La Colle sur Loup, France)
12/11/1991 – 14/11/1991 CEC BRIDGE T Programme on "Factors Regulating Growth and
Differentiation of Plant Cells: a Basis for the Understanding of Plant
Regeneration" (Dourdan, France)
1992
17/02/1992 – 22/02/1992 FIS ORSTOM Seminar on "Interactions Plantes Microorganismes"
(Dakar, Senegal)
08/04/1992 – 10/04/1992 EMBO Course on "Methods in Arabidopsis Research" (Cologne,
Germany)
17/08/1992 – 18/08/1992 International Symposium and Training Course in "Plant
Biotechnology" (Gödöllo, Hungary)
23/08/1992 – 28/08/1992 8th
Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant
Physiology (Antwerp, Belgium)
05/09/1992 – 17/09/1992 NATO ASI Seminar on "Plant Morphogenesis: Molecular Approaches"
(Heraklion, Greece)
31/10/1992 – 04/11/1992 CEC TEMPUS Program Course (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
09/11/1992 – 11/11/1992 2nd
General Meeting of the CEC BRIDGE on "T project Regeneration"
(Holeby, Denmark)
02/12/1992 – 03/12/1992 Biotechnologies 92 "Technological Impact and Limiting Factors of
Plant Genetic Transformation" (Compiègne, France)
05/12/1992 Journée d'étude de la Société de Botanique "Les Bases Cellulaires et
Moléculaires de la Morphogenèse chez les Plantes" (Paris, France)
1993
06/03/1993 – 09/03/1993 Banbury Meeting on "Gene Silencing" – Cold Spring Harbor (New
York, USA)
30/03/1993 – 02/04/1993 "Protein Kinases, Phosphatases and G proteins" (Columbia, Missouri,
USA)
26/05/1993 – 27/05/1993 The Royal Society Discussion Meeting on "Production and Uses of
Genetically Transformed Plants" (London, UK)
28/05/1993 Ciba Foundation Meeting on "Molecular Mechanisms of Resistance to
Plant Pathogens" (London, UK)
28/08/1993 – 04/09/1993 XVth
International Botanical Congress (Yokohama, Japan)
25/10/1993 – 29/10/1993 "Gene Manipulation for Crop Improvement" (Ceské Budejovice,
Czech Republic)
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29/10/1993 – 30/10/1993 "VIème
Colloque Biotechnocentre" (St.-Pierre-des-Corps, France)
06/10/1993 – 10/11/1993 "Role of Oxidative Stress in HIV/AIDS", National Institute of Health
(Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
1994
11/04/1994 – 15/1994 Training Course on Genetic Engineering and Crop Improvement,
Huazhong Agricultural University (Wuhan, China)
16/05/1994 – 24/05/1994 Workshop on Plant Biotechnology: Crop Improvement by Gene
Manipulation – Achievements and Opportunities, Plovdiv Agricultural
University (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
19/05/1994 – 01/06/1994 NOMBA Symposium "Control of Gene Expression", Aarhus University
(Aarhus, Denmark)
19/06/1994 – 24/06/1994 4th
International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (Amsterdam,
The Netherlands)
12/09/1994 – 14/09/1994 Meeting on Protein Phosphorylation in Plants, University of Bristol
(Bristol, UK)
18/11/1994 Meeting on New Hormones in the Control of Plant Cell, Tissue and
Organ Culture, University of Liège (Liège, Belgium)
1995
24/04/1995 – 25/04/1995 Meeting of the SLW Gemeenschappen - Moleculaire Celbiologie van
Planten en Moleculaire Ontwikkelingsbiologie van Dieren (Lunteren,
The Netherlands)
13/05/1995 Joint Research Meeting of the SFB Program (Munich, Germany)
17/07/1995 – 19/07/1995 Molecular Physiology of Crop Plant Meeting (Versailles, France)
07/08/1995 – 10/08/1995 Biotechnology Research and Applications for Sustainable
Development Meeting, Chulabhorn Research Institute (Bangkok,
Thailand)
13/08/1995 – 18/08/1995 23rd
Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies
(Basel, Switzerland)
20/08/1995 – 26/08/1995 Xth
International Photosynthesis Congress (Montpellier, France)
24/09/1995 – 27/09/1995 ESF Network Workshop on "Genes and their Products for Tolerance
to Physical Stresses in Plants" (Maratea, Italy)
05/10/1995 – 07/10/1995 EMBO Workshop on "Control of Cell Division Cycle in Higher Plants"
(Szeged, Hungary)
27/10/1995 – 28/10/1995 Seminar on "Applications of Plant Biotechnology in the Context of EU
Research Programs" (Barcelona, Spain)
18/11/1995 Autumn Meeting of the Belgian Society for Cell Biology on "Genes
and Development" (Mons, Belgium)
1996
09/01/1996 – 11/01/1996 The 36th
NIBB Conference on "Stress Signaling and Stress Responses
in Plants" (Okazaki, Japan)
04/02/1996 – 07/02/1996 "Plants under Stress" Workshop/Course sponsored by the CAM
Foundation (Valencia, Spain)
17/04/1996 – 20/04/1996 Missouri Symposium on Protein Phosphorylation in Plants (Columbia,
Missouri, USA)
24/05/1996 – 01/06/1996 Workshop on Roots (Arc-et-Senans, France)
07/06/1996 NSC/NFWO Joint Symposium on Agricultural Biotechnology (Ghent,
Belgium)
18/08/1996 – 23/08/1996 International Symposium on Bacterial Polyhydroxyalkanoates
(Davos, Switzerland)
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05/09/1996 – 07/09/1996 Seminar on the Application of Plant Biotechnology in Agriculture
(Vastergotland, Sweden)
09/09/1996 – 13/09/1996 The 10th
FESPP Congress (Florence, Italy)
27/09/1996 Journée autour du thème “Morphogénèse in vitro: Aspects
Moléculaires et Cellulaires" (Lille, France)
01/10/1996 – 05/10/1996 VIIIth
Biennial Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Free
Radical Research (Barcelona, Spain)
18/11/1996 Colloque INRA “Comment protègerons-nous les plantes au XXIème
siècle?” (Nice, France)
19/11/1996 – 22/11/1996 IVème
Congrès de la Société Française de Phytopathologie (Nice,
France)
22/11/1996 – 25/11/1996 Conférence Scientia European Fondation Rhône-Poulenc, Institut de
France (Annecy, France)
18/12/1996 4th
BeNePhyt Meeting (Antwerp, Belgium)
1997
10/03/1997 – 21/03/1997 International Course on the Analysis and Manipulation of the Plant
Genome (Irapuato, Mexico)
27/03/1997 – 29/03/1997 Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, Symposium on Photooxidative
Damage and its Relaxation (Kyoto, Japan)
01/04/1997 – 05/04/1997 4th
International Symposium on Responses of Plant Metabolism to Air
Pollution and Global Change (Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands)
09/04/1997 – 11/04/1997 2nd
European Symposium on Protein Phosphorylation in Plants
(Orsay, France)
19/05/1997 Mini-symposium on Plant Molecular Biology (Helsinki, Finland)
12/06/1997 – 17/06/1997 18th
Congress of the Scandinavian Society for Plant Physiology
(Uppsala, Sweden)
25/06/1997 – 29/06/1997 8th
International Meeting on Arabidopsis Research (Madison,
Wisconsin, USA)
17/08/1997 – 21/08/1997 8th
European Congress on Biotechnology (Budapest, Hungary)
09/09/1997 – 10/09/1997 3rd
Coastal Biotechnology Symposium (Tromsoe, Norway)
21/09/1997 – 27/09/1997 5th
International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (Singapore,
Republic of Singapore)
27/10/1997 – 28/10/1997 13th
International Symposium in Conjunction with Award of
International Prize for Biology "Frontier Plant Biology" (Kyoto, Japan)
1998
13/01/1998 – 19/01/1998 Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology (Taos, Mexico)
21/01/1998 Belgische Vereniging voor Biochemie en Moleculaire Biologie
(Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium)
25/02/1998 Journée Scientifique Claude Gigot (Strasbourg, France)
07/03/1998 – 12/03/1998 The 40th
NIBB Conference “Stress Responses” (Okazaki, Japan)
16/03/1998 Collège de France (Versailles, France)
24/03/1998 – 26/03/1998 The Society for Experimental Biology (York, UK)
15/05/1998 One Day Symposium ‘Study of the Control Mechanisms of Cell
Proliferation in Eukaryotic Cells’ (Antwerp, Belgium)
06/05/1998 – 17/05/1998 Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of Arabidopsis (Cologne,
Germany)
18/05/1998 – 20/05/1998 Körber Workshop 1998 (Hamburg, Germany)
14/06/1998 – 19/06/1998 IXth
International Congress on Plant Tissue and Cell Culture
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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13/08/1998 – 17/08/1998 16th
International Conference on Plant Growth Substances (IPGSA)
(Chiba, Japan)
08/09/1998 – 09/09/1998 DBMS – Grenoble Conferences (Grenoble, France)
17/09/1998 – 19/09/1998 10th
Bioscience Days (Helsinki, Finland)
13/11/1998 Joint Meeting VVPF-FWO Onderzoeksgemeenschap Plant
Morfogenese (Ghent, Belgium)
04/12/1998 Conference Biopôle “In Vitro Plant Cell Engineering” (Amiens, France)
10/12/1998 Regeneration Symposium (Melle, Ghent, Belgium)
17/12/1998 – 19/12/1998 Winter Meeting 1998 of the Society for Free Radical Research
(Granada, Spain)
1999
06/01/1999 – 07/01/1999 BBSRC Cell Commitment and Determination Workshop
(Bournemouth, UK)
30/01/1999 – 03/02/1999 Plant Molecular Biology Seminar Series (North Carolina, USA)
22/03/1999 – 24/03/1999 Institutio Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, workshop on Cell
Cycle regulation and Cytoskeleton in Plants (Madrid, Spain)
09/06/1999 – 11/06/1999 EMBO Practical Course on Genetica and Molecular Analysis of
Arabidopsis (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
07/07/1999 – 09/07/1999 Workshop “Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology: From Stress and
Oxygen Radicals to Programmed Cell Death and Senescence” (Porto,
Portugal)
12/07/1999 9th
European Congress on Biotechnology (Brussels, Belgium)
25/07/1999 – 28/07/1999 International Symposium “Auxins and Cytokinins in Plant
Development” (Prague, Czech Republic)
05/08/1999 – 08/08/1999 XVIth
Int. Botanical Congress (St.-Louis, Missouri, USA)
31/08/1999 International Congress on Cellular Responses to Osmotic and
Oxidative Stress (Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands)
26/11/1999 – 27/11/1999 Biotechnology Workshop (Alicante, Spain)
06/12/1999 – 11/12/1999 International Symposium on Plant Genetic Engineering (Havana,
Cuba)
13/12/1999 – 18/12/1999 China Belgium Seminar on Transgenic Plants (Beijing, China)
2000
02/03/2000 – 05/03/2000 DFG Schwerpunktprogramm “Molecular Analysis of Phytohormone
Action” (Halle, Germany)
04/06/2000 – 08/06/2000 ABIC 2000 (Toronto, Canada)
18/06/2000 – 24/06/2000 6th
International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB)
(Quebec, Canada)
27/06/2000 – 01/07/2000 3rd
International Congress on Adventitious Root Formation
(Veldhoven, The Netherlands)
22/10/2000 – 24/10/2000 13th
International IIGB Meeting - Plant Development: From Cell Fate
to Organ Format (Island of Capri, Italy)
06/11/2000 – 09/11/2000 Symposium on Micronutrient Function in Antioxidant Systems – The
Rank Prize Funds (Grasmere, Cumbria, UK)
08/12/2000 Symposium “Environment and Plant Health” (Munich, Germany)
2001
17/04/2001 Koninklijk Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap Dodonea (Ghent,
Belgium)
07/05/2001 – 19/05/2001 ICRO-UNESCO Course (Kostinbrod, Bulgaria)
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10/06/2001 – 13/06/2001 Plant Biotechnology Symposium "Better Products from Better
Plants" (Helsinki, Finland)
23/06/2001 – 27/06/2001 12th
International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Madison,
USA)
01/06/2001 – 06/07/2001 17th
International Conference on Plant Growth Substances (Brno,
Czech Republic)
10/09/2001 – 12/09/2001 BASF Biological Sciences Research Seminar "Improving Biological
Tools for Product Design" (Deidesheimm, Palatina, Germany)
02/10/2001 Conférencies CURS 2001/2002 (Barcelona, Spain)
07/12/2001 Workshop: Metabolomics Approach in Plant Functional Genomics in
the Post-genome Eras, Kazusa Academia Center (Chiba, Japan)
2002
23/06/2002 – 28/06/2002 10th
IAPTC&B Congress - Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond
(Orlando, Florida, USA)
28/10/2002 – 31/10/2002 EPSO Conference (Brunnen, Switzerland)
2003
31/03/2003 Society of Experimental Biology (Southampton, UK)
2004
06/01/2004 – 11/01/2004 Keystone Symposium: “Cell Cycle and Development” (Snowbird,
Utah, USA)
10/03/2004 “Plant Cell Cycle Conference” (Ghent, Belgium)
23/03/2004 – 24/03/2004 Tomato/Solanaceae meeting, Kazusa Academia Hall (Chiba, Japan)
27/03/2004 45th
Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists
(Tokyo, Japan)
23/04/2004 Inauguration Symposium of the new CIB building (Madrid, Spain)
23/08/2004 – 27/08/2004 14th
Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant
Biology (Cracow, Poland)
06/09/2004 China workshop “Therapeutics in plants” (Ghent, Belgium)
14/09/2004 – 16/09/2004 International Symposium on Cell & Molecular Biology of Tobacco BY-
2 Cells (Yokohama, Japan)
15/10/2004 – 18/10/2004 EMBO Annual Workshop: Frontiers of Molecular Biology (Vienna,
Austria)
12/11/2004 188th
Meeting of the Society Symposium on Cell Cycle and
Development (Brussels, Belgium)
2005
23/05/2005 – 25/05/2005 Workshop on Plant Stem Cells: Independent Inventions and
Conserved Mechanisms (Madrid, Spain)
03/06/2005 Knowledge for Growth: Annual Flemish Biotech Convention (Ghent,
Belgium)
02/07/2005 – 07/07/2005 30th
FEBS Congress & 9th
IUBMB Conference (Budapest, Hungary)
20/09/2005 – 23/09/2005 4th
Plant GEMs (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
04/11/2005 NVBMB/NPC Regulatory Protein Networks Symposium (Utrecht, The
Netherlands)
2006
08/04/2006 – 13/04/2006 2006 Keystone Symposium on Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress “Cell
Cycle Responses to the Environment” (Copper Mountain, Colorado,
USA)
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12/04/2006 BIO 2006: Workshop on Stem Cells in Plant Biotechnology (Chicago,
USA)
06/06/2006 – 09/06/2006 Workshop "Towards Molecular Systems Biology" (Bielefeld,
Germany)
03/07/2006 – 06/07/2006 Keynote talk at the Symposium, Eukaryotic Cell Cycle “Cell Cycle
Control and Plant Development” (Southampton, UK)
17/07/2006 – 21/07/2006 XVth
Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant
Biology FESPB (Lyon, France)
20/09/2006 – 23/09/2006 Plant Genetics Conference (Kiel, Germany)
11/10/2006 – 14/10/2006 Opening keynote lecture at the 5th
Plant GEMs Meeting “How useful
is Arabidopsis for the discovery of crop traits?” (Florence, Italy)
26/10/2006 One-Day Symposium on Plant Growth Regulators and Abiotic Stress
(Frankfurt, Germany)
08/12/2006 Symposium “Proteome Analysis in Systems Biology” (Antwerp,
Belgium)
2007
23/03/2007 – 28/03/2007 Session Chair at the 2007 Keystone Symposium on Plant Cell Biology
“Cell Cycle Regulation and Plant Growth” (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho,
USA)
02/05/2007 – 04/05/2007 EMBO Conference Series on Plant Science “From Basic Genomics to
Systems Biology” (Ghent, Belgium)
21/05/2007 – 01/06/2007 Systems Biology Workshop: From Nucleotide to Ecosystems
(Melbourne, Australia)
01/06/2007 Co-organizer of the NVvC spring meeting 2007: Cell Division in
Development and Disease “Cell Cycle control in animals and plants: a
world of differences” (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
04/06/2007 – 06/06/2007 3rd
International Conference on Renewable Resources and
Biorefineries RRB3 “Improved Crops for Bio-Energy” (Ghent,
Belgium)
10/07/2007 – 11/07/2007 Informa Agricultural Biotechnology for Europe Conference:
Harnessing the Potential of Agricultural Biotechnology for Europe
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
26/08/2007 – 29/08/2007 Keynote lecture at the Symposium “Plants for Human Health in the
Post-Genomic Era” (Helsinki, Finland)
05/09/2007 – 07/09/2007 Conference on “Systems Approaches to Development” (Sheffield,
UK)
17/10/2007 – 19/10/2007 BASF Bioscience Research Symposium (St. Johann, Germany)
28/11/2007 Genomics Momentum 2007: Eye on Genomics (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
2008
24/01/2008 – 25/01/2008 6th
TLL Life Sciences Symposium: "Biotechnology: Innovative
applications from Basic Research" (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
14/04/2008 – 14/04/2008 Colloquium of Chemical Genetics and Crop Enhancement (Stein,
Switzerland)
28/06/2008 – 03/07/2008 33rd
FEBS-Congress & 11th
IUMBM Conference (Athens, Greece)
24/09/2008 – 27/09/2008 4th
World Conference on the Future of Science - Food and Water for
Life (Florence, Italy)
16/10/2008 – 17/10/2008 IBMP 20th
anniversary colloquium, Integrative Plant Biology (session
Biotechnology) (Strasbourg, France)
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2009
29/01/2009 – 30/01/2009 Annual Plant Biotech Meeting (Copenhagen, Denmark)
15/02/2009 – 18/02/2009 The First International Conference on Biotechnology (Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia)
06/05/2009 – 09/05/2009 2nd
EMBO Conference on Plant Molecular Biology (Cadiz, Spain)
30/06/2009 – 02/07/2009 Plenary lecture at Società Italiana di Biologia Vegetale - I Annual
Congress (Verona, Italy)
04/07/2009 – 09/07/2009 Plenary lecture at the 34th
FEBS Congress (Prague, Czech Republic)
18/07/2009 – 22/07/2009 Chairman Mini-Symposium, session “Cell Cycle Regulation” at the
Plant Biology Meeting 2009 (Honolulu, Hawaii)
01/09/2009 – 04/09/2009 Keynote lecture at the 8th
International Symposium in the Series
‘Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology, section on Gene Isolation
Strategy in Genomic Era (Szeged, Hungary)
07/09/2009 – 08/09/2009 EPSO Workshop ‘Plant Productivity for Food – from Models to Crops’
(Ghent, Belgium)
13/09/2009 – 16/09/2009 Chairman of the session “Plant Yield” at the 14th
European Congress
on Biotechnology (Barcelona, Spain)
20/10/2009 KVIV-studienamiddag: Voedselproductie in Vlaanderen: een
Noodzaak? (Melle, Ghent, Belgium)
25/10/2009 – 30/10/2009 Organizer of Cell Cycle, Cell Division Session at the 9th
IPMB Congress
(St.-Louis, Missouri, USA)
2010
19/01/2010 6de
Millenniumconferentie Geneeskundige Kring van Aalst: De
schreeuw om voedsel! (Aalst, Ghent, Belgium)
11/04/2010 – 18/04/2010 Plenary lecture at the Crop Functional Genomics 2010 Symposium
(Jeju Island, Korea)
06/05/2010 – 07/05/2010 TPJ Editors’ Research Forum (London, UK)
06/06/2010 – 10/06/2010 Plenary lecture at the 21st
International Conference on Arabidopsis
Research & 5th
Workshop of Yokohama Biomass Association
(Yokohama, Japan)
04/07/2010 – 07/07/2010 Plenary lecture at the XVIIth
Congress of the Federation of European
Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) (Valencia, Spain)
2011
27/01/2011 BARN Symposium – International Symposium: Growth and
Development of Roots (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
10/04/2011 – 15/04/2011 Keynote speaker at the Brazilian Symposium on Plant Molecular
Genetics (Ilhéus, Brazil)
04/05/2011 – 07/05/2011 Keynote address and Integrative Science session at The Plant
Genomics European Meeting (Plant Gem) (Istanbul, Turkey)
29/08/2011 – 31/08/2011 Frontiers in Genomics Symposium (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
19/09/2011 – 21/09/2011 Plant Growth Biology and Modeling Workshop (Elche, Spain)
18/11/2011 – 19/11/2011 Keynote speaker INPAS (International Network of Plant Abiotic
Stress) 2011 (Limassol, Cyprus)
2012
04/01/2012 – 08/01/2012 Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI): “Frontier in Cell Biology”
(Hong Kong, China)
06/03/2012 – 08/03/2012 Keynote speaker at the Plant2030 Status Seminar (Potsdam,
Germany)
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03/07/2012 – 07/07/2012 Co-chairman of the Concurrent Session on Systems Biology of
Development and speaker at the 23rd International Conference on
Arabidopsis Research (ICAR 2012) (Vienna, Austria)
11/09/2012 2012 Holden Botany Lecture, the School of Biosciences at
Nottingham University (Nottingham, UK)
26/09/2012 – 28/09/2012 “Next Generation Plant Science” Symposium, Max-Planck Institute
for Plant Breeding Research (PIM) (Cologne, Germany)
21/10/2012 – 26/10/2012 Chair for the Commemorative Presidential Lecture, CPLII session
“Untangling hormone signalling networks for plant growth and
defence” & Speaker at the Systems Biology I session “Gene Networks
and Development” at the 10th International Plant Molecular Biology
Congress (IPMB) (Jeju Island, Korea)
06/11/2012 – 09/11/2012 Conference on Integrative Biology in Plant, Microorganisms and the
Environment (Neumünster, Luxemburg)
19/11/2012 – 20/11/2012 Keynote speaker at the International Symposium of Plant Science
(Yokohama, Japan)
2013
17/01/2013 – 2101/2013 Speaker & Chairman at the Plant Abiotic Stress and Sustainable
Agriculture: Translating Basic Understanding to Food Production
(Taos, New Mexico, USA)
05/02/2013 Invited Speaker at the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology,
University of Münster (Münster, Germany)
12/04/2013 Speaker at Mini-Symposium “Future of drought stress research”,
Institute of Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants
(IMBIO), University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
03/07/2013 – 05/07/2013 Opening lecture ‘New Horizons in the Plant Cell Cycle and
Development (Valencia, Spain)
20/08/2013 – 22/08/2013 Keynote speaker at the Synthetic and Systems Biology conference at
the University of Sao Paulo (USP) (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
18/09/2013 – 20/09/2013 Speaker at “Plant Biology for the Next Generation”, the International
Symposium of the SFB924 (Freising, Germany)
03/10/2013 – 06/10/2013 Plenary lecture at Molecular Life Sciences 2013, International
Symposium of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (GBM) (Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
15/10/2013 Plenary lecture at the symposium organized by Syngenta
Biotechnology Inc.: “To grow or not to grow: lessons learned from
Arabidopsis and corn” (North Carolina, USA)
08/11/2013 Plenary Speaker at the International Symposium “Towards the use of
atmospheric CO2 from photosynthesis to biorefinery” (Tokyo, Japan)
2014
21/04/2014 – 25/04/2014 Plenary Speaker at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on
Genome Assisted Biology of Crops and Model Plant Systems
(Suzhou, China)
29/05/2014 – 31/05/2014 Invited speaker at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
(Nara, Japan)
22/06/2014 – 26/06/2014 Keynote lecture at FESPB/EPSO 2014 Conference: Plant Biology
Europe (Dublin, Ireland)
31/10/2014 Speaker at the Greenhouse Opening Symposium, University of
Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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2015
13/03/2015 – 16/03/2015 Plenary Speaker at the 57th
Annual Maize Genetics Conference (St.Charles,
Illinois, USA)
19/03/2015 – 20/03/2015 Invited talk at INRA, as part of a series of 8 talks during a scientific day
open to the Paris area plan biology community (Paris, France)
08/04/2015 – 09/04/2015 Seminar at the Biocentre Klein Flottbek – BZF Institute
SeminarSeries 2014-2015 (Hamburg, Germany)
08/07/2015 – 09/07/2015 Invited Speaker at the 26th
International Conference on Arabidopsis
Research (ICAR) and Chair of the ‘Abiotic Stress’ session (Paris,
France)
12/08/2015 Invited talk at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
(Golm, Germany)
22/09/2015 – 24/09/2015 Keynote lecture at the 18th
GPZ Genome Research Conference
(Düsseldorf, Germany)
26/10-2015 – 27/10/2015 Invited speaker at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poznan, Poland)
11/11/2015 – 12/11/2015 Invited speaker at the Symposium in honor of Dieter Schweizer,
founding director of the Gregor Mendel Institute (Vienna, Austria)
16-11/2015 – 19/11/2015 Keynote speaker at the 2nd
World Congress on Biostimulants in
Agriculture (Florence, Italy)
2016
29/05/2016 – 03/06/2016 Invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Salt and
Water Stress “Moving from Mechanism to Yield Stability” (Les
Diablerets, Switzerland)
07/07/2016 – 08/07/2016 Invited speaker at a symposium at the Technische Universität
München (TUM) (Munich, Germany)
28/09/2016 – 30/09/2016 Invited speaker at the 18th
Annual Fall Symposium of the Danforth
Plant Science Center (Missouri, US)
31/10/2016 – 04/11/2016 Invited speaker at the IBS Conference on Plant Science: The 8th
International Symposium on Plant Senescence (Jeju Island, Korea)
13/12/2016 – 15/12/2016 Professor Shu-Chen Grace Chen Lectureship at the Institute of Plant
& Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
2017
07/01/2017 – 11/01/2017 Invited speaker in the “Food and Feed Security” session of the SouthAfrican
Association of Botanists (SAAB) 43rd
Annual Conference:
Protecting biodiversity through sustainability (Cape Town, South
Africa)
30/01/2017 Invited speaker at the School of Biological Sciences, University of
Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)
15/03/2017 – 17/03/2017 Keynote lecture at the Plant Organ Growth symposium (Elche, Spain)
19/06/2017 Plant Science Seminar in the framework of the course ‘Plant
Biotechnology in Agriculture’, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa,
Italy)
23/07/2017 – 29/07/2017 Speaker in the general symposium on “Organ Size Control” at the XIX
International Botanical Congress (IBC 2017) (Shenzhen City, China)
28/08/2017 – 30/08/2017 Invited speaker at the 9th
Utrecht PhD Summer School on
Environmental Signaling in Plants (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
17/10/2017 – 18/10/2017 Speaker at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit (London, UK)
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2018
16/01/2018 – 19/01/2018 Honorary lecture at Yangtze River Academic Forum and keynote
lecture at the College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University (Wuhan,
China)
03/03/2018 – 06/03/2018 ‘Plants for Life 2018’ conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
08/05/2018 – 11/05/2018 Speaker at the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Global Institute for
Food Security (Saskatoon, Canada)
03/06/2018 – 08/06/2018 Speaker at The Gordon Reseach Conference on Salt & Water Stress in
Plants (Waterville Valley, NH, US)
01/07/2018 – 05/07/2018 Keynote lecture at the Auxins and Cytokinins in Plant Development
and Interactions with Other Hormones meeting (ACPD2018) (Prague,
Czech Republic)
25/09/2018 – 28/08/2018 Invited lecture at The LXII SIGA (Italian Society of Agricultural
Genetics) Annual Congress (Verona, Italy)
18/10/2018 – 19/10/2018 Invited speaker at the “Bertalanffy Lecture at COS” lecture series at
the Centre for Organismal Studies + invited lecture for the scientific
community at the University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)
28/11/2018 – 01/12/2018 Invited speaker at the mini-symposium of the 2018 IPMB (Institute of
Plant and Microbial Biology) SAB meeting, Academia Sinica (Taipei,
Taiwan)
2019
06/03/2019 – 08/03/2019 Invited Expert Speaker at the Department of Agriculture and Forest
Sciences, Tuscia University (Viterbo, Italy)
29/05/2019 – 31/05/2019 Keynote Speaker at the Interdisciplinary Plant Group’s 36th
Annual
Symposium “Plant Signaling in Biotic and Abiotic Stress” (Missouri,
US)
24/10/2019 Wetenschapelijke lezing “Voedselvoorziening in de 21ste eeuw”,
Benev Gent vzw (Belgisch Nederlandse vereniging) (Ghent, Belgium)
09/11/2019 – 11/09/2019 Opening lecture at the Plant Developmental & Production Biology
under Global Climate Change meeting, Mendel University (Brno,
Czech Republic)
12/12/2019 Lezing “New breeding technologies for a climate resilient and ecofriendly
agriculture” op het symposium georganiseerd door de
Herman De Croo Stichting “Onze landbouw: performant?!” (Kruisem,
Belgium)
2020
25/02/2020 Invited speaker Science & Cocktails (Brussels, Belgium)
30/07/2020 Invited speaker Plant Science for Climate Emergency: the pivotal role
of genome editing organized by ASPB
01/10/2020 - 02/10/2020 Invited speaker International Conference on Regulation of Genome
Edited Organisms organized by Leopoldina - DFG
15/10/2020 Invited speaker 2020 Maize RCN meeting organized by Wisconsin
Crop Innovation Center
2021
19/04/2021 Invited speaker CRISPR and Agriculture Webinar, organized by Swiss
Academy of Sciences
June 2021 Speaker Podcast Studio Ecomodernisme (BE/NL)
June 2021 Invited speaker and chair Plant Biology Europe 2021
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14/09/2021 Invited speaker Brazilian Genetics Society
29/09/2021 Invited speaker World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit
16/11/2021 Round table discussion Assisted evolution techniques (TEA) for the
agricultural ecological transition
2022
27/03/2022-29/03/2022 Invited speaker Crop Innovation and Business event (Ghent, Belgium)
04/04/2022-08/04/2022 Invited speaker 16th
congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological
Union - MPU (Limassol, Cyprus)
05/07/2022-08/07/2022 Invited speaker at the annual conference of The Society for
Experimental Biology - SEB (Montpellier, France)
22/07/2022 Round table discussion at Mendel conference (Brno, Czech Republic)
06/09/2022 Invited speaker at meeting of Belgian politics party NVA
20/09/2022 Invited speaker World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit (London, UK)
13/10/2022 Keynote speaker Conference on genome editing for food safety and
crop improvement Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech
Republic)
26/10/2022 Invited speaker Bayer Foundation Symposium “From Gene Editing to
Gene Writing” (Cologne, Germany)
2023
23/03/2023 Invited speaker Mendel Lectures at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech
republic)
30/03/2023 Webinar International Seed Fedaration (ISF): Current genome editing
technologies, applications and evolution
26/04/2023 Invited speaker Bayer & Euroseeds reception “Tasting the fruit of
innovation in plant breeding” (Brussels, Belgium)
05/06/2023 Keynote speaker 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis
Research (ICAR2023) (Chiba, Japan)
09/10/2023 Invited speaker Academia Europaea Building Bridges 2023 (Munich,
Germany)
Organization of courses and meetings
1987
03/08/1987 – 20/08/1987 Co-organizer of the EMBO Course on "Plant Molecular Biology"
(Ghent, Belgium)
1988
30/05/1988 – 17/06/1988 Co-organizer of the International Course on "Plant Biotechnology"
(Kostinbrod, Bulgaria)
1989
Member of the Scientific Committee for the organization of the 8th
Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology
(Antwerp, Belgium)
1992
03/08/1992 – 22/08/1992 Co-organizer of the EMBO Course on "Plant Molecular Biology"
(Ghent, Belgium)
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1994
19/06/1994 – 24/06/1994 Member of the Scientific Committee (as chairman of the cell cycle
colloquium) of the "4th International Congress of Plant Molecular
Biology" (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
1995
05/10/1995 – 07/10/1995 Co-organizer of the EMBO Workshop on "Control of cell division in
higher plants" (Szeged, Hungary)
1996
27/06/1996 – 01/06/1996 Member of the Advisory Panel of the Workshop on Roots (Arc-etSenans,
France)
12/09/1996 – 14/09/1996 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Plant Embryogenesis
Workshop: "From Single Cell to Plant" (Hamburg, Germany)
1997
09/04/1997 – 11/041997 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second European
Symposium on Protein Phosphorylation in Plants (Orsay, France)
1999
22/09/1999 – 23/09/1999 Chairman of the session on Crop Quality Improvement of the
symposium “Forum for Applied Biotechnology” (Ghent, Belgium)
2000
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium 2000 IFR
(Toulouse, France)
05/03/2000 – 09/03/2000 Member of the Scientific Committee of the New Frontiers in Plant
Science and Plant Biotechnology (Toulouse-Labège, France)
2001
20/05/2001 – 24/05/2001 Member of the Scientific Committee of the 6th
International
Workshop on Pathogenesis-Related Proteins in Plants (Spa, Belgium)
23/06/2001 – 27/06/2001 Organizer and Chairman of the Cell Biology 2 Session during the 12th
International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (Madison, USA)
01/07/2001 – 06/07/2001 Chairman of the session “Hormones and cell division” of the 17th
International Conference on Plant Growth Substances (Brno, Czech
Republic)
2003
16/06/2003 – 21/06/2003 Member of the International Advisory Committee ISPMB 2003
(Barcelona, Spain)
23/07/2003 – 28/07/2003 Organizer of the Cell Cycle Session in the ISPMB meeting (Barcelona,
Spain)
01/09/2003 – 30/09/2003 Member of the Advisory Board: Conference on “Plant Stress,
Reactive Oxygen and Antioxidants” (Freising-Weihenstephan,
Germany)
2004
06/01/2004 – 11/01/2004 Organizer of the Keystone Symposium: “Cell Cycle and
Development” (Snowbird, USA)
10/03/2004 – 10/03/2004 Organizer of “Plant Cell Cycle Conference” (Ghent, Belgium)
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11/07/2004 – 14/07/2004 Member of the Advisory Board – Arabidopsis 2004 Meeting (Berlin,
Germany)
14/09/2004 – 19/09/2004 Co-organizer of International Symposium on Cell & Molecular Biology
of Tobacco BY-2 Cells (Yokohama, Japan)
12/11/2004 Organizer of the 188th
Meeting of the Society Symposium on Cell
Cycle and Development (Brussels, Belgium)
2005
02/07/2005 – 07/07/2005 International co-organizer of 30th
FEBS Congress & 9th
IUBMB
Conference (Budapest, Hungary)
20/09/2005 – 23/09/2005 Member of the Program Board of 4th
Plant GEMs (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
2006
11/10/2006 – 14/10/2006 Member of the Program Board of 5th
Plant GEM Meeting (Venice,
Italy)
2007
23/03/2007 – 28/03/2007 Organizer of 2007 Keystone Symposium on “Plant Cell Biology”
(Coeur d’Alene, USA)
02/05/2007 – 04/05/2007 Organizer of EMBO Conference Series on Plant Science “From Basic
Genomics to Systems Biology” (Ghent, Belgium)
01/06/2007 Co-organizer of NVvC spring meeting 2007: Cell Division in
Development and Disease (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
12/09/2007 – 14/09/2007 Organizer of the SFFR Plant Oxygen Group meeting on reactive
oxygen and nitrogen species (Ghent, Belgium)
03/10/2007 – 06/10/2007 Member of the Program Board of 6th
Plant GEM Meeting (Tenerife,
Spain)
2009
18/07/2009 – 22/07/2009 Chairman of the Mini-symposium session “Cell Cycle Regulation” at
the Plant Biology Meeting 2009 (Honolulu, Hawaii)
07/09/2009 – 08/09/2009 Organizer of the EPSO Workshop: Plant Productivity for Food – from
Models to Crops (Ghent, Belgium)
13/09/2009 – 16/09/2009 Chairman of the session “Plant Yield” at the 14th
European Congress
on Biotechnology (Barcelona, Spain)
25/10/2009 – 30/10/2009 Organizer of Cell Cycle, Cell Division Session at 9th
IPMB Congress
(St.-Louis, Missouri, USA)
20/11/2009 – 21/11/2009 Member of the Promoting Committee of Science for Peace Annual
World Conference (Milan, Italy)
2012
03/07/2012 – 07/07/2012 Co-chairman of the Session on Systems Biology of Development at
the 23rd
International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR
2012) (Vienna, Austria)
03/10/2012 – 05/10/2012 Co-Organizer of the Nature Conference “Frontiers in plant biology:
From discovery to applications” (Ghent, Belgium)
21/10/2012 – 26/10/2012 Chair for the Commemorative Presidential Lecture, CPLII session
“Untangling hormone signalling networks for plant growth and
defence” (IPMB) (Jeju Island, Korea)
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2013
17/01/2013 – 21/01/2013 Speaker & Chairman at the Plant Abiotic Stress and Sustainable
Agriculture: Translating Basic Understanding to Food Production
(Taos, New Mexico, USA)
12/09/2013 Co-organizer of the Mini-symposium: Maize as a Model Plant (Ghent,
Belgium)
2015
10/03/2015 – 12/03/2015 Organizer of the Plant Organ Growth Symposium (Ghent, Belgium)
13/09/2015 – 19/09/2015 Co-organizer of the EMBO practical course ‘Insights into plant
biological processes through phenotyping’ (Ghent & Louvain-laNeuve,
Belgium)
2016
18/05/2016 – 20/05/2016 Co-organizer of the European Maize Meeting (Hamburg, Germany)
2017
15/03/2017 – 17/03/2017 Co-organizer of the Plant Organ Growth Symposium (Elche, Spain)
03/05/2017 – 05/05/2017 Co-Organizer of the European Molecular Maize Symposium (Ghent,
Belgium)
15/06/2017 – 16/06/2017 Co-organizer of the VIB Conference Series ‘At the Forefront of Plant
Research’ (Ghent, Belgium)
23/07/2017 – 29/07/2017 Co-organizer of a general symposium on “Organ Size Control” at the
XIX International Botanical Congress (IBC 2017) (Shenzhen City,
China)
2019
24/04/2019 – 26/04/2019 Co-organizer of the Plant Organ Growth Symposium (Bordeaux,
France)
07/11/2019 – 08/11/2019 Co-organizer of the -KVAB Symposium on Genome Editing “Genome
editing for crop improvement” (Brussels, Belgium)
2020
29/06/2020 – 02/07/2020 Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) of the FESPB
EPSO Plant Biology Europe 2020 Congress (Turin, Italy)
2021
June 2021 Plant Science for Climate Emergency virtual webinar
August 2021 Joint webinar series VIB-UGent center for plant systems biology
(PSB) and Interdisciplinary Plant Group University of Missouri (IPG)
October 2021 Joint webinar series VIB-UGent center for plant systems biology
(PSB) and RIKEN
2022
October 2022 Co-organizer Conference on genome editing for food safety and crop
improvement Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic)
2023
June 2023 Translational Research in Crops conference (Ghent, Belgium)
Editorial board member
2000 - 2006 Plant Science
2000 - 2007 Plant Physiology
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2000 - 2008 Plants
2003 - 2010 The Plant Journal
2003 - 2010 Journal of Experimental Botany
2005 - 2007 The EMBO Journal
2005 - 2008 Plant Cell Physiology
2002 - current Plant Biotechnology Journal
2009 - current Trends in Plant Science (TIPS)
2009 - current International Journal of Cytogenetics and Cell Biology
2014 - current Molecular Systems Biology
Regular reviewer
The Plant Cell, The EMBO Journal, Plant Molecular Biology, Molecular and General Genomics,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Plant and Cell Physiology, Journal of Cell Science, Sinica, Plant Physiology
and Biochemistry, Swiss National Science Foundation, The Israel Science Foundation, Austrian
Science Foundation (FWF), International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), Hong Kong
Research Grants Council (RGC), National Science Center Poland (NCN), Plant Physiology.
Member of scientific commissions and boards
1996 NATO Consultant for Biotechnology Projects (Turkey)
Member of the Consultative Council for Bulgarian Biotechnology (Bulgaria)
Member of the CEC Steering Committee on Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing
Member of the EC-FACE Program
Member of the Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Member of the Scientific Evaluation Panel of EC RTD&D Program on Agriculture
and Fisheries (Brussels, Belgium)
Member of the Steering Committee of the Plant Oxygen Group of the Society for
Free Radical Research (European Region)
1994 - 1998 Member of the Commission Scientifique Spécialisée “Molecular Biology”, INRA
(France)
Nominated Member of the ‘Conseil de Gestion – Biologie Végétale de l’INRA
(France)
1999 - 2004 Member of the Board of Directors of the ISPMB
1999 - 2006 Member of the Scientific Commission of the FWO – Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (Belgium)
1999 Member of the “9ième Commission Scientifique: Biochémie (normale et
pathologique), Biologie Moléculaire” of the FNRS (Brussels, Belgium)
Member of the “Comité de Direction Scientifique du Biopôle”
Member of the Committee to evaluate IFR Projects (France)
2000 - 2006 Board Member of the Belgian Society of Cell Biology and Development
2002 - 2006 Member of the General Assembly of the Belgian Society of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology
2004 Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(China)
Member of the International Science Advisory Board of the Department of
Developmental Genetics (Tübingen, Germany)
2005 - 2008 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the GMI GmbH (Gregor Mendel
Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenbiologie) (Austria)
Member of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Evaluation Committee (Ireland)
2006 - 2009 Vice-President of EPSO (the European Plant Science Organization)
2006 – 2012 Member of the Science Advisory Board of the MPI-Golm (Germany)
2006 Chairman of the Dutch Genome Initiative
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Member of the International Advisory Board of the XVth Congress of the
Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology FESPB
2007 Member of the GrassRoots Biotechnology’s Scientific Advisory Board
2007 - 2009 Member of the CISBIC International Advisory Board (UK)
2007 - 2010 Member of the ERC (European Research Council) Evaluation Panels
2007 - current Member of the Advisory Committee of RIKEN Plant Science Center (Japan)
Chairperson of the External Advisory Board of the ABCG (Agro Bio Centre in
Genomics) (Bulgaria)
2008 Member of the “Adviescommissie _ZAPBOF” (BOF/Onderzoeksraad,
Departement Onderzoek UA
2008 -2010 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Centre de Recherche Public de la
Santé – CRP-Santé (Luxembourg)
2009 - 2010 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of GABI-FUTURE (Germany)
2009 - 2012 Member of the SystemsX panel (Switzerland)
2010 Member of the IPMB International Scientific Advisory Board (South-Korea)
Member of the SAB GABI, Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)
Advisory Member of the Biomass Project in RIKEN (Japan)
2010 - 2013 Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Netherlands Consortium for
Systems Biology – NCSB (The Netherlands)
2010 - 2019 Representative of the VIB Direction Committee in the Board of Directors of VIB
2010 - current Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Science (Bulgaria)
2011 Scientific Advisory Board for the MPIMP-Golm (Germany)
Vice-Chair of RICAC (RIKEN Advisory Council on Research Cluster of Innovation –
RCI) (Japan)
Chair of Biomass Engineering Program Subcommittee (BMEP) (Japan)
Member of the AERES Evaluation Board (Evaluation de l’Institut de Biologie
Moléculaire des Plantes du NRS, IMBP-CNRS – UPR2357) (Strasbourg, France)
Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Danish National Research Foundation
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Austrian Institute of Technology – AIT
(Austria)
2011 - 2023 Chair of the International Scientific Advisory Board – ISAB CEITEC (Czech
Republic)
2012 NCSB Scientific Advisory Council on Systems Biology (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Member of the Bioklima Advisory Board (Norway)
2013 - 2014 RRB-10 Scientific Advisory Board (Belgium)
2013 - current Member of the Science Advisory Committee of RIKEN Center for Sustainable
Resource Science (Japan)
2014 Evaluation Member for the Science Foundation Ireland (Dublin)
Vice-Chair at the on-site assessment of the Institute of Genetics & Developmental
Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Beijing)
2014 - 2015 Scientific Advisory Board Member of FACCE-JPI (Joint Program Initiative on
Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change) (Belgium)
2014 - 2016 Advisory Board for High-Potential Research at Ghent University (Belgium)
2015 Member of the Advisory Group to support the creation of the “Research
Accelerator on Agriculture: Water and Energy” at the University of Évora
(Portugal)
2016 - 2017 Science Europe SAC (Scientific Advisory Committee)
2016 - current External Advisory Board for phase III of the Gates funded C4 rice project
Member of the ‘Genomics for Climate Changes Research Center’ International
Advisory Board (GCCRC IAB, Brazil)
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2017 Co-organizer Round Table Discussion “European Consortium for Open Field
Experimentation” (ECOFE)
Chair of the Evaluation Committee D-BIOL (Department of Biology) at ETH Zürich
(Switzerland)
2017 - 2018 Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Center for Plant Aging Research,
Institute for Basic Science (South-Korea)
2017 - 2020 Member of the ‘Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology’ (IPMB) Scientific Advisory
Board, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
2017 Panel Member for the panel ‘LS9-Life Sciences and Non-Medical Biotechnology’
in the ERC Advanced Grant 2017 evaluation (ERC-2017-AdG)
2018 - current Member of the International Advisory Board of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced
Studies (Italy)
Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Saclay Plant Sciences, INRA (France)
Member of the Excellence Advisory Board (EAB) of the VTT Technical Research
Centre of Finland (Finland)
Member of the Science and Impact Advisory Board (SIAB) of Rothamsted
Research (UK)
2019 Chair of the panel ‘LS9-Life Sciences and Non-Medical Biotechnology’ in the ERC
Advanced Grant 2019 evaluation (ERC-2019-AdG)
2020 - current Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Brazilian Bioenergy
Science and Technology Conference (BBEST 2020)
Member of the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) of the Institute of Plant and
Microbial Biology (IPMB) at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Member of the scientific advisory board of Micropep
2021 - current Member of the ERC Scientific Council
2022-current Member of Green Tissue Engineering Scientific Advisory Board
2023- current Member of the Adam Mickiewicz University Scientific Advisory Board
International jury member of PhD Defences
Didier Hérouart (Amiens, France), Pascale Sarni Manchado (Toulouse, France), Pascale Curie
(Toulouse, France), Marc Lepetit (Paris, France), Jean-Charles Caissard (Paris, France), JeanCharles
Leplé (Orléans, France), Estelle Jaech (Strasbourg, France), Cathy Feuillet (Toulouse,
France), Pascal Genschik (Strasbourg, France), Mariana Spassova (Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
Luca Pelligrini (Strasbourg, France), Elisabeth Goyvaert (Singapore), Jocelyne Marivet
(Strasbourg, France), Colette Tournaire (Montpellier, France), Arnould Savouré (Orsay, France),
Noelle Favet (Strasbourg, France), Lazhar Ouelhazi (Tours, France), Renata Rivera-Madrid
(Perpignan, France), Valérie Escalettes (Bordeaux, France), Li-Xian Qin (Orsay, France), Felicie
Lopez (Montpellier, France), Jean-Philippe Reiccheld (Strasbourg, France), Eric Soupene
(Toulouse, France), Bertrand Plesse (Strasbourg), Isabelle Farbos (Bordeaux, France), Didier
Callard, (Toulouse, France), Ana Carolina M. Arisi (Orsay, France), Kjell-Ove Holmström
(Stockholm, Finland), Jean-Luc Pingret (Toulouse, France), Nabil Mouaheb (Toulouse, France),
Patrick Laufs (Versailles, France), Catherine Délichere (Lyon, France), Stéphane Helleboid
(Villeneuve D’Ascq, France), Jézabel Proust (Strassbourg, France), Pascal Genschik (Strassbourg,
France), Said Hamdi (Tours, France), Marc Ménard (Compiègne, France), Isabelle Camus
(Versailles, France), Jérome Joubès (Bordeaux, France), Florence Corellou (Roscoff, France),
Séverine Planchais (Orsay, France), François Roudier (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Daphné Autran
(Versailles, France), Téva Vernoux (Versailles, France), Jérôme Poulain (Lille, France), Stéphanie
Breuil-Broyer (Lyon, France), Sylvie Tarayre (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Marco Da Costa (Versailles,
France), Bea Pauw (Leiden, The Netherlands), Anthony Meunier (Compiègne, France), Thomas
Skot Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Nathalie Gonzalez (Bordeaux, France), Hussam Nour-Eldin
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(Copenhagen, Denmark), Suvi Häkkinen (Helsinki, Finland), Chrystalla Antoniou (Lemesos,
Cyprus)
Honors
1994 Laureate of the Körber Stiftung Prize (800,000 EUR research funding)
1995-1998 Visiting Research Professor at Montfort University (Leicester, UK)
1997- 2001 Honorary Research Associate of the Institute of Grassland and Environmental
Research (Aberystwyth, UK)
1996 Nominated member of the Conférence Scientia European of the Fondation RhônePoulenc,
Institut de France (Annecy, France)
2003 Bidder Lecture of the Society of Experimental Biology
2003-current ISC highly-cited researcher in the field of plant and animal sciences (within the 10
most cited scientists worldwide)
2003 Elected EMBO member
2005 Laureate of the Francqui Prize 2005, also known as the “Belgian Nobel Prize”
2005 Member of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Belgium)
2005-2006 Laureate of the Belgian Francqui Chairs at University of Antwerp (Belgium)
2006 Honor in UC Davis “Frontiers in Plant Science”
2006 Elected Vice-President of the European Plant Science Organization (EPSO)
2009 Medal at the Palacky University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
2010 Five-yearly FWO Excellence Prize: Prize Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart in Exact
Sciences
2010 Foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2012 Holden Botany Lecture, School of Biosciences at Nottingham University
(Nottingham, UK)
2014 ERC Advanced Grant (2014-2018)
2014 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Natural Sciences)
(Salzburg, Austria)
2015 Corresponding member of the Russian/International Academy of Engineering
2016 Professor Shu-Chen Grace Chen Lectureship Award, Institute of Plant & Microbial
Biology, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
2017 World Agriculture Prize GCHERA
2018 Honorary lecture at Yangtze River Academic Forum (China)
2018 Distinguished Lecture Series at the Global Institute for Food Security (Saskatoon,
Canada)
2018 Bertalanffy Lecture at COS (Centre for Organismal Studies) (Heidelberg, Germany)
2019 ERC Advanced Grant (2019-2024)
2019 Nominated ‘20 most influential in the European Seed Sector’
2019 Nominated for the award of Commemorative Medal of the Faculty of AgriSciences
at Mendel University (Brno, Czech Republic)
2019 Elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) for lifelong dedication to Plant Science, and
translation of basic research on cell biology and stress biology to crop improvement
in wheat and maize
2020 Elected member Academia Europaea
2022 SEB annual lecture award (The Society for Experimental Biology)
2022 President medal AAB (Association for Applied Biologists)
2023 Invited speaker Mendel Lectures at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech republic)
Science policy publications & meetings
February 2014 Interview in Trends and Plant Science
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Science Europe activities as Chairperson of the Life Sciences, Environmental
Sciences and Geosciences Committee (LEGS)
May 2014 LEGS Scoping Paper
Integrated Research Tools and Strategies: For sustainable management of
health, food, security, natural resources, ecosystems, biodiversity and climate
change
June 2014 LEGS Opinion Paper on Career Paths in Multidisciplinary Research
July 2014 Interview in Science
Better Recognition for Multidisciplinary Research
August 2014 Open Letter on EU Data Protection Regulation
February 2016 Article in Trends in Plant Science: “The Future of Field Trials in Europe:
Establishing a Network Beyond Boundaries”
(doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2015.12.003), sketching a future field trial infrastructure
on the European level
November 2016 Contribution to an opinion paper on genome editing of the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences
2018 Position paper submitted to the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Art:
“Evaluation of the GGO regulatory framework: high time for a thorough
revision”
2018 Position paper “Regulating genome edited organisms as GMOs has negative
consequences for agriculture, society and economy” published and signed by
131 European Plant Science Institutes
2020 Dirk Inzé is the founder of the EU-SAGE network representing 131 European
Plant Science institutes and societies that have joined forced to provide
information about genome editing and promote the development of European
and member state policies that enable the use of genome editing for
sustainable agriculture and food (https://www.eu-sage.eu/). Recently EU-SAGE
was taken up in the list of selected stakeholders to be involved in the European
Commission's study on the status of new genomic techniques.
2020 Science & Cocktails. “New breeding technologies for a climate resilient and
eco-friendly agriculture”
October 2020 Editor publication ALLEA-KVAB about genome editing for crop breeding and
Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 and related techniques
July 2022 ERC press conference at ESOF (Leiden, The Netherlands)
August 2022 Mapping the frontiers of science - ERC Scientific Council editorial
September 2022 Lecture Belgian political group (NVA)
October 2022 Requested guest documentary national tv
June 2023 Invited online speaker EU life ERC masterclass
September 2023 Invited guest podcast ‘Discours’
September 2023 Published Dutch book on climate change
September 2023 Invited lecturer NGT event at US embassy
October 2023 Invited speaker Springer Nature Plants Community meeting
November 2023 Invited speaker National Day of Science (BE)
November 2023 Invited lecturer for members of the European Parliament seminar lunch on
gene editing
Many interviews for local newspapers, television channels, local journals
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Publications
Total number of papers in peer review journals: 545
Total number of papers in journals without peer review: 27
Chapters in books and proceedings of congresses: 79
Editor of books: 6
The full publication list can be found as an annex.
Bibliometric analysis
ISC highly cited researcher in the field of plant and animal sciences (within the 10 most cited plant
scientists worldwide)
Number of publications in Web of Science: 614
Life-time citations: 63.004 (November 2023)
H-index: 140