EMBL-ABR interviewed Frederik Coppens (VIB-UGent)
Currently he is Project Leader, Applied Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent.
Currently he is Project Leader, Applied Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at the Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent.
With the aim of fighting vitamin A deficiency in developing countries, a team of European scientists in the late 1990s thought of engineering rice plants to produce pro-vitamin A, also known as beta carotene.
Genome editing of mammalian cells is made easy with CRISPR. Custom KO/KI cell lines can be generated rapidly, helping to speed up the functional analysis of favorite genes.
Seagrasses are the only angiosperms or ‘flowering plants’ that have ever colonized the sea. In doing so, they became the bedrock for one of our planet’s most productive coastal ecosystems.