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  • Professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and chief scientific officer at Biogazelle.
  • Jo Vandesompele obtained a Master of Science in Bioscience Engineering (1997) and a PhD in Medical Genetics (2002). Since 2007, he is professor in Functional Cancer Genomics and Applied Bioinformatics at Ghent University
  • He is author of more than 250 scientific articles in international journals, including some pioneering publications in the domain of RNA quantification and non-coding RNA, and the MIQE guidelines on quantitative PCR and digital PCR. His H-index is 80, with 52 000 citations (Google Scholar, February 2020).
  • Developer of the geNorm and qBase method for qPCR data-analysis
  • Jo is also co-founder of Biogazelle and pxlence, 2 Ghent University spin-off companies, and co-founder of the Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG)

Prof Vandesompele will be presenting on:
1) From reference genes to global mean normalization – how to improve the accuracy of your qPCR results
 2) The MIQE guidelines: minimum information for accurate quantitative PCR results