Björn Menten
- Associate Professor
- Head of the Genome Research lab
- Teamleader Education
Contact
Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, MRB1 (entrance 34), 9000 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2010 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 2008 - present: Head cytogenomics Laboratory, Center for Medical Genetics and Ghent University Hospital
- 2007: PhD in Medical Genetics - Ghent University
- 2002: Master of Science in Bio-engineering - Ghent University
Member of
- Center for Medical Genetics Ghent
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent
- Bioinformatics Institute Ghent from nucleotides to networks
- Belgian Society for Human Genetics
- European Society of Human Genetics
- RARE-MED consortium
Research tracks
Expertise
- Genomics/ Genome research
- Applied bio-informatics
- Molecular karyotyping
- (Non-invasive) Prenatal genetic testing
- Preimplantation genetic testing - embryo research
- Liquid Biopsy Testing
- Whole genome sequencing
- Long read sequencing
Publications
Key publications
- Implementation of non-invasive prenatal testing by semiconductor sequencing in a genetic laboratory.(2016) Prenatal Diagnosis
- WisecondorX: improved copy number detection for routine shallow whole-genome sequencing. (2019) Nucleic Acids Research
- Application of an Ultrasensitive NGS-Based Blood Test for the Diagnosis of Early-Stage Lung Cancer: Sensitivity, a Hurdle Still Difficult to Overcome. (2022) Cancers.
- GENType : all-in-one preimplantation genetic testing by pedigree haplotyping and copy number profiling suitable for third-party reproduction. (2022) Human Reproduction
- Aligning genotyping and copy number data in single trophectoderm biopsies for aneuploidy prediction: uncovering incomplete concordance. (2024) Human Reproduction Open