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).
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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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Distinct evolutionary pressures discovered in vertebrate animals compared to mosquito vectors can protect humans and animals from flavivirus infections
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Initiation of the COVID-19 clinical phase I/II study for the ABNCoV2 vaccine
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Corona vaccine research consortium submits application to start clinical study
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In memoriam Dr.Ir. C.P. (Kees) van der Beek (1951-2020)
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Rob Goldbach Virology MSc thesis prize
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Wageningen World: Making COVID-19 proteins with insect cells
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Wageningen helps in developing a vaccine for coronavirus
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KNAW-Beijerinck Premium 2020 goes to Jelke Fros original thinker in virology
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INSECT DOCTORS
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Gabriela Maciel Vergara wins Mauro Martignoni Award of the Society of Invertebrate 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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Caprine MAVS Is a RIG-I Interacting Type I Interferon Inducer Downregulated by Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Infection
Viruses 13 (2021)3. - ISSN 1999-4915 -
Effect of blood source on vector competence of Culex pipiens biotypes for Usutu virus
Parasites & Vectors 14 (2021)1. - ISSN 1756-3305 -
A proctolin-like peptide is regulated after baculovirus infection and mediates in caterpillar locomotion and digestion
Insect Science (2021). - ISSN 1672-9609 -
Insect-Specific Flavivirus Replication in Mammalian Cells Is Inhibited by Physiological Temperature and the Zinc-Finger Antiviral Protein
Viruses 13 (2021)4. - ISSN 1999-4915 -
Punctuated loci on chromosome IV determine natural variation in Orsay virus susceptibility of Caenorhabditis elegans strains Bristol N2 and Hawaiian CB4856
Journal of Virology (2021). - ISSN 0022-538X -
Visualizing the ribonucleoprotein content of single bunyavirus virions reveals more efficient genome packaging in the arthropod host
Communications Biology 4 (2021)1. - ISSN 2399-3642
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