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)