Danny is happily progressing in his thesis research. Another interesting paper..pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38536871/

Eleanor Marshall developed an in vitro blood-brain barrier (BBB) model to determine whether Usutu virus and West Nile virus differ in their capacity to invade the central nervous system across the BBB. Read the publication via: bit.ly/3xb8U6Z @marionkoopmans #onehealth

Next THURSDAY, we have one of the leaders in #vector immunity to #arboviruses, with Ronald van Rij from Radboudumc giving a seminar. All welcome! Please help with a RT. Learn more about their research here vanrijlab.org

Determining the Mpox virus host range by BarryRockx Rats are more likely to be culprits than squirrels in Europe due to frequency of interaction with humans

Excited to see our chapter "Zika virus Infection in Travelers" finally out, as we started writing well before the start of the pandemic! Nice collaboration with C_Reusken and Isabella Eckerle link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

What should clinicians know about emerging & re-emerging viruses in travellers? Read here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… Really great to see this finally published - with a chapter written by C_Reusken BarryRockx & myself on #Zika-Virus! Hakan Leblebicioglu Nick B #emergingviruses

Thanks to Klingström lab for hosting me as the opponent for, now Dr., Wanda Christ' defense. I really enjoyed the discussions, and got a nice souvenir.

Excited to present my PhD project on ‘Conservation of rationally designed attenuating mutations in Usutu virus’ tomorrow at #ASV2024 One Health PACT

It was an absolute pleasure to present my work at #ASV2024 yesterday! A huge thank you to everyone who attended, engaged (including laughing at my bad cryo-EM joke) and contributed to the discussion!

A new paper has been published in npj Viruses npj Journals, Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl; BarryRockx Usutu virus and West Nile virus use a transcellular route of neuroinvasion across an in vitro model of the human blood–brain barrier nature.com/articles/s4429…

Another cool paper by Eleanor Marshall on how Usutu virus and West Nile virus use a transcellular route of neuroinvasion across an in vitro model of the human blood–brain barrier. nature.com/articles/s4429…

Usutu virus and West Nile virus are very similar, have the same reservoir hosts, are transmitted by the same mosquitos, but differ greatly in virulence for humans. Model study shows key differences do not seem to be a level of blood brain barrier nature.com/articles/s4429…

New paper by Eleanor Marshall et al. on how Neurovirulence of Usutu virus in human fetal organotypic brainslice cultures partially resembles Zika and West Nile virus rdcu.be/dSm7a in collaboration with HerpesLabNL

🚨 starting next week 🚨 a whole new series of arbovirus talks on 🦠 🦟 🕷️ 💉 from key leading investigators, from across the field, and a diversity of career stages, and backgrounds 🥳 All welcome! Let’s spread the word 🙌🏼

Another cool paper by Danny Noack on developing A three-dimensional vessel-on-chip model to study Puumala orthohantavirus pathogenesis - now published in Lab on a Chip pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…