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
Featured
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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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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An influential meal: host plant dependent transcriptional variation in the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
BMC Genomics 20 (2019)1. - ISSN 1471-2164
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Mito-docking: A Novel In Vivo Method to Detect Protein–Protein Interactions
Small Methods 3 (2019)10. - ISSN 2366-9608
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Identification of Loci Associated with Enhanced Virulence in Spodoptera litura Nucleopolyhedrovirus Isolates Using Deep Sequencing
Viruses 11 (2019)9. - ISSN 1999-4915
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Subgenomic flavivirus RNA binds the mosquito DEAD/H-box helicase ME31B and determines Zika virus transmission by Aedes aegypti
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (2019)38. - ISSN 0027-8424 - p. 19136 - 19144.
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Paving the Way to Tospovirus Infection: Multilined Interplays with Plant Innate Immunity
Annual Review of Phytopathology 57 (2019). - ISSN 0066-4286 - p. 41 - 62.
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The role of ZAP and OAS3/RNAseL pathways in the attenuation of an RNA virus with elevated frequencies of CpG and UpA dinucleotides
Nucleic acids research 47 (2019)15. - ISSN 0305-1048 - p. 8061 - 8083.
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