Programmed cell death in plants and caspase-like activities
Gaussand, G.M.D.J.
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Gaussand, G. M. D. J. (2007, April 25). Programmed cell death in plants and caspase-like
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Curriculum vitae
Gwénael Gaussand was born on the 21st of January 1975 in Blois, France. He attended the Lycée Dessaignes in Blois. In September 1994, he started the study of medicine at the Faculté de Médecine of the Université Francois Rabelais in Tours. From September 1996 until September 2000, he was a student at the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques at the same university. In the meanwhile, from July 1999 until September 1999, he was a research trainee at Pau Euralis Génétique in Blois, where he worked on cross breeding and corn selection. Mr JP Sampoux supervised this traineeship. Then from February 2000 to September 2000, Gwénaël was an Erasmus Exchange research trainee with the Department of Applied Plant Sciences of TNO Quality of Life in Leiden, the Netherlands. This traineeship concerned the biosynthesis of starch in wheat, and it was supervised by Dr S de Pater. In September 2000, Gwénaël received his master degree in cellular biology and plant physiology, with a specialization in microbiology and plant biotechnology, from his university in Tours. From December 2000 to February 2005, he worked on a PhD research project at Leiden University. This project was supported by the Stichting Binair Vector Systeem. This work took place at (1) the Molecular and Developmental Biology Section of the Institute of Biology Leiden, under the supervision of Dr S de Pater and Prof Dr P Hooykaas, and (2) the Department of Applied Plant Sciences of TNO Quality of Life, under the supervision of Dr H Korthout and Dr M Wang. From September 2005 to April 2006, he worked as a post-doc in the Laboratory of Stress, Defenses and Plant Reproduction of the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, France. Here, under the direction of Prof Dr C Clément, he participated in the EU Haplotech research project. In the meanwhile, he took up the voluntary position of program advisor ‘humanity, technology and earth’ with the Sociotext Foundation in The Hague, the Netherlands. Since September 2006, he works as a biochemist for Yacht Chemie and Life Sciences at Solanic, an Avebe group company.
