Danny Geelen

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Danny Geelen received a Bachelor degree at University Hasselt and master in Plant Biotechnology at Ghent University in 1988. He obtained a PhD degree in 1995 at the Faculty of Sciences at Ghent University. Supported by a personal Marie-Curie fellowship he conducted post doctoral research from 1995 to 1997 at the CNRS, Institut des Sciences Vegetales, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France on plant anion channels. Next he was a post doc at the Imperial College London in the UK from 1997 to the end of 1999 working on abscisic acid signaling and regulation of stomata conductance. In 2000 he returned to Belgium where he was appointed Principal Investigator at the VIB/UGent department Plant Systems Biology. Currenly he is professor at the faculty of Bioscience Engineering Ghent University.

Email: Danny.geelen@ugent.be