Keygene: A LIFE Science company
Keygene is a private cooperation that provides genetic and genomic research. Keygene works for leading vegetable and animal breeders, universities, hospitals and the fermentation and food industry.

Keygene’s aim
Keygene's aim is to support companies and institutes that carry out fundamental or applied genetic/genomic research or that seek to enhance the quality of their product through the improvement of the genetic material used in the production process.

AFLP®
An important milestone in Keygene’s history was the invention and development of the AFLP® technology in the early 1990’s. The patented AFLP technology has since become a widely used genetic fingerprinting technology. Keygene’s experience in the application of the AFLP technology and the high quality of its work has been an important basis for its success.

physical mapping, gene expression profiling, bio-informatics….
Other important capabilities of Keygene include BAC library construction, genetic and physical mapping of genomes, cDNA-AFLP based gene expression profiling, and the development of bio-informatics applications used for the analysis, interpretation and management of experimental data.

Plants, animals and micro-organisms
Keygene’s technological capabilities are relevant for companies and research groups that are interested in the genetic research of plants, animals and micro-organisms. Keygene has acquired considerable experience in all these fields and worked for and with leading companies and institutes in the respective industries.

Recently, Keygene has initiated a number of new and ambitious programs to further strengthen its genetic research capabilities. For these programs we are looking for:

Program Scientist Genetic Strategies and Genotyping

Program Scientist Reproduction / Recombination

Scientist Gene Exploitation

Postdoc Positions

For information about the career possibilities at Keygene please contact :

Tiny Swemers, Personnel Advisor, HRM Department
tiny.swemers@keygene.com