Laboratory of Virology
Our research focuses on plant viruses, arboviruses and insect viruses. We aim to unravel the molecular and ecological mechanisms underlying virus-host and virus-vector interactions to understand how these determine pathology and transmission. The acquired knowledge contributes to the development of new technologies (e.g. in vector control and biotechnology) and durable strategies for disease management (e.g. in molecular plant breeding, vaccine development, insect biocontrol and mass rearing of insects).
Chair holder
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European Immunization Week 2019
Dr Jelke Fros is among researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and elsewhere who are aiming to better understand how viruses and hosts (like us) try to outsmart each other. This work has the potential to fundamentally change how, and how quickly, vaccines can be developed in response to new public health threats.
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INSECT DOCTORS -
Gabriela Maciel Vergara wins Mauro Martignoni Award of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology -
Rob Goldbach Virology Lecture 2018 and presentation of the Goldbach MSc thesis prize -
In memoriam Hanke Bloksma
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Sandra Abbo wins Zika virus poster award -
Pig fetuses infected with Zika virus develop severe brain pathology
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The Wageningen Electron Microscopy Centre (WEMC) is a centralized facility closely associated to the Laboratory of Virology, providing tools and expertise to researchers of Wageningen University & Research institutes and external users.
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Latest publications
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Construction and immunogenicity of novel bivalent virus-like particles bearing VP60 genes of classic RHDV(GI.1) and RHDV2(GI.2)
Veterinary Microbiology 240 (2020). - ISSN 0378-1135
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Cellular RNA Hubs: Friends and Foes of Plant Viruses
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 33 (2020)1. - ISSN 0894-0282
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Update of the list of QPS-recommended biological agents intentionally added to food or feed as notified to EFSA 9 : Suitability of taxonomic units notified to EFSA until september 2018
EFSA Journal 17 (2019)1. - ISSN 1831-4732
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Rescue of tomato spotted wilt virus entirely fromcomplementary DNA clones
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2019). - ISSN 0027-8424 : BioRxiv - 10 p.
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Virus Latency and the Impact on Plants
Frontiers in Microbiology 10 (2019). - ISSN 1664-302X
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A functional investigation of the suppression of CpG and UpA dinucleotide frequencies in plant RNA virus genomes
Scientific Reports 9 (2019)1. - ISSN 2045-2322
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