Benoît Muylkens

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Faculties/Departments/Services

Département de médecine vétérinaire - Directeur/Directrice de département

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Domains of expertise

Virology (herpesviruses, recombination, vaccination)
Control of viral gene expression (transcriptional, post-transcriptional)

Degrees

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (2002)
Doctor of Veterinary Science (2006)

Prizes

  • 1996, May, First prize in the Biology Olympiad, Belgium
  • 1996, July, Winner of the International Biology Olympiad, Crimea, Ukraine
  • 2001, Scholarship from ‘L'association des Amis de l'ULg’, for a 2-month stay at the University of Montreal, Saint Hyacinthe, Canada
  • 2002, June, ‘Octave Dupont’ Foundation Prize, valedictorian of the 2002 class of veterinary medicine students, ULg.
  • 2002, June, ‘Pfizer animal health’ prize for dissertation entitled: ‘Recombination in bovine herpesvirus 1’.
  • 2002, November, ‘Eukanuba Prize, Best of Class’, 2nd prize in the international animal nutrition competition, Madrid, Spain
  • 2002-2006: FNRS fellowship (doctoral thesis)
  • 2006, October, ‘Jacques Espinasse Prize’ Impact of two parameters influencing the control of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis: recombination and viral latency. World Buiatrics Congress, Nice, France

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2022-2023

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