Alumni

PhD students

  • Nadja Brait, Endogenous viral elements and their influence on the complexity of genomic and transcriptomic data analysis (2020-2024).
  • Ilaria Manfredonia, Thesis title to be announced (2021-2025).

Other members

  • Students
  • Research visitors

MSc students

  • Juliana Rodriguez Fuentes, Using viruses to assess their hosts’ population spatio-temporal dynamics, University of Groningen (2021-2022)
  • Megan Lensink, Endogneous viral elements in marine mammals, University of Groningen (2022)
  • Mariana Escobar Rodríguez, Studying the history of ant-virus associations through Endogenous Viral Elements, University of Groningen (2022-2023)
  • Manasven Raina, Within-host genetic diversity of SARS CoV-2 virus and associations with clinical phenotypes, University of Groningen (2023)
  • Anna Haider Rubio, Discovery of exogenous Viruses and Endogenous viral Elements in the Seagrass species Z. marina, Z. muelleri and Z. nigricaulis, University of Groningen (2023)
  • Laurina Chioso, Diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) inside and around hives of the western honey bee Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in the Netherlands, Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (France) (2023)
  • Arno de Jong, Usutu virus phylogeography and evolutionary selection analysis, University of Groningen (2023-2024)
  • Susan de Vries, Searching for viruses in the two-spotted spider mite, University of Groningen (2024)
  • Ioana Mateescu, The Ecology and Behavioral Effects of LNV1 and MSV1 Viral Infections in Dutch Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Ant Colonies, University of Groningen (2024).
  • Lea Simon, Viruses in Eriocheir sinensis: Insights from the Native and Invasive Range, University of Groningen (2024)

BSc students (long term projects)

  • Lisan Eisinga, Orthomyxovirus detection in Anopheles mosquitoes, Hanze University of Applied Sciences (2022-2023)
  • IJsbrand Pool, R-BATS Bayesian analysis of tip significance in R, Hanze University of Applied Sciences (2022-2023)
  • Lisa Mersch, Investigating the coinfection and superinfection dynamics of Cell-Fusing Agent virus (CFAV) and Aedes flavivirus (AeFV) in the U4.4 insect cell line, Hanze University of Applied Sciences (2024-2025)
  • Kwinten Boere, Detection of Arboviruses and ISV in Culex pipiens mosquitoes using primer-specific PCR and sequencing techniques, Hanze University of Applied Sciences (2024-2025)

Research visitors

  • Fred Masika Bwayo, Makerere University (Uganda) (2022)
  • Veera Pellinen, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) (2024)
  • Melissa Camila Ortiz Pineda, University of Antioquia (Colombia) (2024)