DU JARDIN Patrick
Professeur ordinaire
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Département GxABT
Plant Sciences
Plant Sciences
- ULiège address
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Bât. ABT06 G48 - Plant Sciences
Avenue de la Faculté d'Agronomie 2A
5030 Gembloux
Belgique
- Local
- Plant Biology laboratory, Av Maréchal Juin, Bâtiment 48
- ULiège phone number
- +32 81 622456
- ULiège Fax
- +32 81 600727
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- Conseil sectoriel à la recherche et à la valorisation
- Sciences et Techniques
- University degrees
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1990: Docteur en Sciences agronomiques et Ingénierie biologique (Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux)
1986: Ingénieur agronome (Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux)
Biography
Doctor in Agricultural Sciences and Biological Engineering since 1990, Patrick du Jardin is Professor of Plant Biology at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, where he was Dean from 2007 to 2009. Active researcher in plant physiology and biotechnology, he is also a scientist engaged in the expertise of biotechnological risks in agriculture. In particular, he worked for more than 10 years with the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy) and served as vice-president of its experts panel on agricultural GMOs from 2012 to 2015. Cultivating transdisciplinarity, he has been a member of several ethics committees in France, in particular for the National Institute of Agronomic Research, and was rapporteur of opinion papers on GMOs, Nanotechnologies and Synthetic Biology. Currently, he is involved as an expert in the implementation of a new European regulation on fertilizing products and has (co-)edited several books and monographs on innovation in this sector. He is recognized as an international reference on the concept of biostimulants in agriculture, a new category of fertilizing products for which he laid the foundations for the recent European regulatory definition. He has (co-) chaired the scientific committees of the main world congresses on the subject since 2017.
Patrick du Jardin is above all a teacher who devotes himself with passion to the pedagogy of plant and general biology for his bachelor's and master's students in Bioengineering. He also develops courses on bioethics and ethics applied to bioengineering. With educational concerns in mind, he designed and now directs the Botanical Garden on the Gembloux campus.
Patrick du Jardin is also a speaker and columnist, wanting to contribute to the popularization of his areas of expertise.
Research field
- Bases générales de la science et de la culture
- Agriculture
- Botanique générale
- Génétique des plantes
Duties or mandates
- Elected Dean of Faculty, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, 2007 till 2009
- Director of the Plant Biology laboratory of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, since 1996
- Scientific director of the Botanical Garden of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, since 2019
- Delegate of the Belgian Ministry within the Committee TC/455 of the European Standards Organisation (CEN) on Plant Biostimulants and Agricultural Microorganisms
- Member of the Breeder's rights Council, by Royal decree, from 2020
- Member and Vice-chair of the GMO experts panel of EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), between 2008 and 2015 and between 2012 and 2015, respectivley
- Ad hoc expert in support to the Belgian Biosafety Advisory Council (BAC) and the Service Biosafety and Biotechnology (SBB) of Sciensano (Belgian federal Institute for Health), since 1998
- Member of the Joint Ethical Committee of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the International Center of Agronomic Cooperation for Development (Cirad), France, between 2009 and 2016
- Member of the Committee for ¿Ethics and Precaution¿ of the National Institute for Agricultural Research in France (INRA), between 1999 and 2007
- Elected chairman (between 2003 and 2006) of the research network ¿Crop Biotechnology, plant breeding and food security¿ funded by the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Scientific distinctions
- Award of Genetics Joseph Schepkens granted by the Royal Academy of Science, Literature and Arts of Belgium for the period 1988-1990. (1991)
