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Hugo Bellen is in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He holds the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental Biology. He first trained at the Solvay Business School in the University of Brussels, but decided to change career path and earned a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ghent (1983). His interest in Genetics led him to pursue a Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Davis, where he became interested in fruit flies. His major contributions relate to the molecular mechanisms that regulate vesicle trafficking and the use of P-transposable elements as tools to manipulate fruit flies.