Swine influenza surveillance with emphasis on vaccine strain selection and zoonotic risk

Big data contributions to understanding avian influenza-host interactions

Controlling swine influenza viruses through assessments of a live attenuated vaccine strain and their relative zoonotic risk

Doctoral project Jolien Lejaeghere

Doctoral project José Carlos Mancera Gracia

Doctoral project Sharon Cherotich Chepkwony

Doctoral project Wojciech Stadejek

Doctoral project Yu Qiu

Emerging porcine influenza and coronaviruses

Emerging porcine influenza and coronaviruses

Studies on the diversity of swine influenza viruses and how to exploit it for vaccination

Surveillance of coronaviruses in cattle and swine with emphasis on their zoonotic risk

Development of a new intranasal vaccine against respiratory and reproductive problems caused by equine herpesvirus 1

Doctoral project Eline Van Crombrugge

Doctoral project Getnet Adiss

Doctoral project Ines Zarak

Doctoral project Kasper Meyntjens

Doctoral project Kelly Rediger

Doctoral project Mostafa Rakhshani Nejad

Doctoral project Noémie Tybebo

Doctoral project Sarah Descamps

Doctoral project Wendy Baetens

Doctoral project Wim Van Raemdonck

Doctoral project Xiaolei Ren

Feline coronavirus-infections in cats in Flanders: epidemiology and pathogenesis.

Feline coronavirus-infections in cats in Flanders: epidemiology and pathogenesis.

Molecular pathogenesis of the coronakiller ‘feline infectious peritonitis’ in cats.

Mucus matters: unraveling its role in age -dependent susceptibility to enteric viral infections

Pathogenesis of coronaviral diseases in humans and animals

Resistance against PRRSV and PCV2 in pigs

Revolutionizing viral and bacterial diagnostics in veterinary medicine using nanopore sequencing

Susceptibility of perivenous macrophages to PRRSV and ASFV and search for PRRSV/ASFV entry mediators by the use of monoclonal antibodies

The nasal frontier: decoding the acute stage of PRRSV and ASFV infection, resulting in new insights in porcine nasal macrophages

Unraveling the fusion of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus in its target cell, the cornerstone for the development of more efficient vaccines

A sustainable vaccination strategy for cross-clade protection against H1N1 influenza viruses of swine and humans

Broadly protective swine influenza virus vaccines

Cross-protection against epidemic and pandemic H3N2 influenza viruses in humans and swine by vaccination with heterovariant strains

Development and enhancement of laboratory networks for avian influenza (FLU-LAB-NET)

Development of a risk assessment methodological framework for potentially pandemic influenza strains (FLURISK)

Dynamics of avian influenza in a changing world

European Suveillance Network for Influenza in Pigs 3 (ESNIP3)

Evolution, pathobiology and pandemic potential of swine influenza viruses

Examination of virus-host interactions that determine the pathology and ecology of avian influenza viruses in different species (FLUPATH)

Innate immunity in influenza virus infection of mammalian airways

Mechanisms of cross protection against H3N2 influenza virus in pig and human (FLUCROSS)

Pathogenesis and transmission of influenza in pigs (FLUPIG)

Surveillance of coronaviruses in cattle and pigs with emphasis on the zoonotic risk

Swine as an intermediate host for potentially pandemic avian influenza viruses: unravelling host species barriers

Training and technology transfer of avian influenza diagnostics and disease management skills (FLUTRAIN)

Cross-protection against epidemic and pandemic H3N2 influenza viruses in humans and swine by vaccination with heterovariant strains

Equipement for a new L3 laboratory enabling in vitro experiments with high risk pathogens

Robust, user-friendly and state-of-the-art fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS)

Development of fast assays for the identification of SARS-CoV-2-infected/immune humans/animals and potential human-animal-human transmissions

Identification of alphaherpesvirus mechanisms that suppress the activity of plasmacytoid dendritic cells

Impact of peripheral virus infection on the central nervous system