Marc Zabeau (born Lier, 1949) is a Belgian scientist and businessman.

Biography

Marc Zabeau graduated in 1971 as a licentiate in zoology at the

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and obtained a PhD in 1974, studying the genetics of ''

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'' in the lab of Jeff Schell. In 1976, on an

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scholarship as a

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Hayes postdoctoral fellow, he went for two years to the

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, the United States. From 1978 until 1983 he worked at the

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in Heidelberg, Germany. during his stay in Heidelberg, he was appointed as professor of genetic engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 1983, he became director of research of

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in Ghent, Belgium and in 1986 director of intellectual property and business development. He founded several biotech companies, such as Helix C.V. ( Ghent, 1988), KeyGene N.V. (

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, 1989), GenScope Inc. (United States, 1995) and Methexis (Ghent, 1997). In 1999, he succeeded

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as scientific director of the Department of Plant Systems Biology at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). In 2002, he was succeeded by

Dirk Inzé Dirk Inzé (born 19 October 1957) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). In 2002, he succeeded Marc Zabeau as scientific director of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology. His research intere ...

. In 1999, he was appointed as full-time professor of genome biology and functional genomics at the University of Ghent. Zabeau was formerly CEO of Trinean. He is currently managing partner of Qbic Venture Partners.

Selected publications

* Mahillon J, Seurinck J, Delcour J, Zabeau M., Cloning and nucleotide sequence of different iso-IS231 elements and their structural association with the Tn4430 transposon in Bacillus thuringiensis, Gene. 1987;51(2–3):187–96. * Vuylsteke M, van Eeuwijk F, Van Hummelen P, Kuiper M, Zabeau M., Genetic analysis of variation in gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana, Genetics. 2005 Nov;171(3):1267–75. * Zabeau M, Stanley KK., Enhanced expression of cro-beta-galactosidase fusion proteins under the control of the PR promoter of bacteriophage lambda, EMBO J. 1982;1(10):1217–24.

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