Ton Bisseling (born 1952) [1] is a Dutch molecular biologist. He is a professor at Wageningen University and Research Centre.
In 1975 Bisseling obtained a degree in biology from the Radboud University Nijmegen. [1] Five years later he earned his PhD in molecular biology at Wageningen University. In 1998 Bisseling became professor and head of the molecular biology laboratory at the same institution. [2] [3] During his career Bisseling has done research on the symbiosis between root nodules and rhizobia bacteria. [4] [5]
Bisseling became a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 1996. [6] He was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. [7] Ton Bisseling was elected as a Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in November 2021.
Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk is a Dutch scientist, entrepreneur and retired politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). He has earned a PhD degree in biology, specialised in molecular genetics. Being a former Minister of the Dutch government, he has been the founder and CEO of Frame Cancer Therapeutics since December 2018. Next to his work at Frame, he has been appointed as professor at the University of Amsterdam since September 2018.
Denis Duboule is a Swiss-French biologist. He earned his PhD in Biology in 1984 and is currently Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Department of Genetics and Evolution of the University of Geneva. Since 2001, he is the Director of the Swiss National Research Center "Frontiers in Genetics" and since 2017, he is also a professor at the Collège de France. He has notably worked on Hox genes, a group of genes involved in the formation of the body plan and of the limbs.
Martijn Bernard Katan is a Dutch nutritionist, an emeritus professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and author of two popular science books on nutrition.
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Antonius Jozef Maria "Anton" Berns is a Dutch scientist researching molecular genetics and author of the Mouse Cancer Models studies series.
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Pieter Baas is a Dutch botanist. He is an emeritus professor of plant systematics at Leiden University. He served as director of the Rijksherbarium of Leiden University between 1991 and 1999. When the institute was faced with budget cuts in 1993 he managed to preserve the collection by joining it with the university collections of Wageningen and Utrecht. This led to the founding of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in 1999. Baas subsequently became director of the institute and served until 2005. As a botanist Baas specializes in wood anatomy.
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