Muriel Blaive 
Julian Casanova 
Filip De Meyer 
Bruno De Wever 
A. Gonzàlez-Quintana 
Thomas Lindenberger 
Feyrouze Omrani 
Sierk Plantinga 
Jean-Marc Van Gyseghem 
Jacques Van Helden 
Günter Bormann 
Antoon De Baets 
Hannelore Dekeyser 
Julie Feld 
Frank Robben 
Patrick Van Eecke 
Karel Velle 
Valérie Verbruggen 
Isabelle Vereecken 
Giovanni Buttarelli 
Georges De Moor 
Bart De Schutter 
François Rigaux 
Xavier Rousseaux 
Christine Van Broeckhoven 
Rudi Van Doorslaer 
Kristof Van Quathem 
Sonia Combe 
Willem Debeuckelaere 
Peter Hustinx 
Ilias Iakovidis 
Minister of Justice 
Erik Van Hove 
Jacques Van Helden
Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) - Head of the Laboratory of Genome and Network Bioinformatics
Born in 1965, Jacques van Helden was initially trained as a bioengineer (“Ingénieur Agronome”, ULB, 1987). His PhD in developmental genetics (ULB, 1995) was dedicated to the analysis of genetic elements involved in the specification of the nervous system of the fruit fly (Drosophila). During his postdoctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, he shifted to the field of bioinformatics, which became his main area of research. He pursued his postdoctoral research at the European Bioinformatics Institute (1998-1999) and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2000-2003) where he has occupied a permanent position since 2003.
His research activities focus on the development, evaluation and application of bioinformatics and statistical methods to analyze genomes, gene regulation, metabolic pathways and molecular interaction networks. He has developed a suite of software tools routinely used by academic researchers across the world (http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/).
Jacques van Helden teaches several Master courses related to bioinformatics (Genome analysis, Statistics for bioinformatics, Analysis of biomolecular networks, Analysis of regulatory sequences), as well as a Bachelor course entitled “Social and ecological issues for biology”.
Detailed curriculum vitae and publications: http://www.bigre.ulb.ac.be/Users/jvanheld/
