Melissa Penninck

History

Member for

3 years 44 weeks

Professional information

Own research projects

• Toxicity characterization and grouping of chemicals based on toxicogenomics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Daphnia magna

Participation in other projects

• Alternative methods for MOA classification in support of QSAR development

Position in the lab

PhD student

Curriculum Vitae

In 2006, I graduated as an industrial engineer in biotechnology in Ghent. After finishing my dissertation at Janssen Pharmaceutica I decided to follow a complementary master in molecular biotechnology at the University of Ghent. In April 2008 I got the opportunity to start at the EBT lab as a PhD student. The focus of my research is on toxicogenomics, in which way this technique can give insights on toxicity and give biological support to integrated testing strategies such as QSARs or chemical classification. The strength of toxicogenomics will be evaluated in Daphnia magna and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as test organisms.