Marc Zabeau

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

Biography

Marc Zabeau graduated in 1971 as a licentiate in zoology at theUniversity of Ghentand obtained a PhD in 1974, studying the genetics ofEscherichia coliin the lab ofJeff Schell.

In 1976, on anNFWOscholarship as aFulbrightHayes postdoctoral fellow, he went for two years to theCold Spring Harbor LaboratoryinNew York,the United States. From 1978 until 1983 he worked at theEuropean Molecular Biology LaboratoryinHeidelberg,Germany.during his stay in Heidelberg, he was appointed as professor of genetic engineering at theVrije Universiteit Brussel.

In 1983, he became director of research ofPlant Genetic SystemsinGhent,Belgiumand in 1986 director of intellectual property and business development. He founded several biotech companies, such as Helix C.V. (Ghent,1988), KeyGene N.V. (Wageningen,1989), GenScope Inc. (United States, 1995) and Methexis (Ghent, 1997). In 1999, he succeededMarc Van Montaguas scientific director of the Department of Plant Systems Biology at theFlanders Institute for Biotechnology(VIB). In 2002, he was succeeded byDirk Inzé.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.

Sources

• Marc Zabeau(in Dutch)
• Marc Zabeau(PDF)