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Projects - dr.ir. RJM (Richard) Kormelink

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  Towards broad, stable and durable resistance against Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (geminivirus) disease in studies on a Ty-1 triggered epigenetic antiviral defense mechanism. 

   

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  Nanobiotechnology: Virus-like particles as carrier or scaffold for epitope-based vaccines.

   

   

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  Antiviral RNAi defense and viral counterdefense by RNA silencing suppressors.

   

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  Towards broad, stable and durable resistance against Tomato spotted wilt virus (tospovirus) based on intracellular innate immunity receptors.

   

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  Cap-snatching and the potential of new antiviral drug design against Influenzaviruses, Bunyaviruses and Arenaviruses.

   

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  The cell biology of the tospovirus intracellular replication cycle.

   

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  Characterization and taxonomic classification of tospoviruses.

   

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  Horizontal gene transfer & persistent infections

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  Towards broad, stable and durable resistance against Tomato spotted wilt virus (tospovirus).

  Breeding of resistance against TSWV sofar is limited to the availability of only two single dominant resistance (R) genes, namely Sw5 and Tsw.