HONOURs ESR REUNION IN AMSTERDAM!
On the 12th of November the ESRs had their first HONOURs reunion meeting in Amsterdam.
read more...PhD DEFENCE TIM PASSCHIER!
On the 8th of November 2022, Tim Passchier successfully defended his thesis at the University of Leeds, UK, entitled: ‘’Elucidation of the Hendra henipavirus nucleocapsid protein structure and its genome encapsidation architectures’’. He presented his findings on recombinant expression and purification of the viral nucleoprotein and its structural resolution through cryo-electron microscopy, identifying established and novel protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions.
read more...Tim Passchier wins the Rigaku 20 minute talk prize!
Tim Passchier has won the Riguka prize at the “Proteins by Candlelight” meeting. A Northern Structural Biology meeting, 25-26 October 2022 at the University of York. Thanks to CCP4, providing Software for Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallography, this was a free meeting for early career structural biologists.
read more...PhD DEFENCE CEREN ŞIMŞEK!
The 25th of January 2022 at 4pm, Ceren Şimşek successfully defended her thesis at the University of Leuven, Belgium, entitled: “ROTAVIRUS IN BATS AND HUMAN. Genetic diversity and gastroenteritis in the post-vaccine era”. She presented her research on the genetic diversity of rotaviruses collected in bats around the world, contributing evidence for interspecies transmission events of rotaviruses from bats to humans and other animals.
read more...PhD DEFENCE MITRA GULTOM!
On the 21th of December 2021 Mitra Gultom defended her thesis entitled “Development of airway epithelial culture models for the characterization of emerging respiratory viruses in human and animal reservoirs”. She presented the repository of well-differentiated airway epithelial cell cultures from various domesticated and wildlife animal species, and the power of these cultures to investigate coronaviruses.
read more...PhD DEFENCE JOAN MARTI CARRERAS!
The 20th of December 2021 Joan Marti Carreras defended his thesis entitled “Third generation sequencing and diversity of herpesviruses”. Herpesviruses have complex, large size genomes and Joan Marti Carreras presented powerful new techniques to sequence and characterize these viruses. Furthermore the VANIR pipeline was explained in a clear presentation that could be followed live or via livestreaming.
read more...PhD DEFENCE PAULINE DIANNE SANTOS!
On the 28th of October 2021 Pauline Dianne Santos successfully defended her thesis entitled “High-throughput sequencing based early warning and outbreak investigation”. The defence was open to the public, with Pauline presenting the result of her research: the elegant Early Warning System she developed, the detection of West Nile virus and Usutu virus and the discovery of novel viruses in birds.
read more...PhD DEFENCE TRAN THI NHU THAO!
On the 23rd of June 2021 Tran Thi Nhu Thao defended her PhD-thesis entitled “Establishment of a reverse genetics platform for emerging RNA viruses”. Thao presented the power of a universal reverse genetics platform for the assembly and engineering of infectious full-length cDNA clones of viruses.
read more...PhD DEFENCE ALEXIS HOSTE!
On the 16th of April 2021 Alexis Hoste defended his thesis. The defense lasted 3 hours with
read more...PhD DEFENCE KEVIN SZILLAT!
On the 3rd of February 2021 Kevin Szillat successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Virus characterisation in an era of outbreaks"
read more...PhD DEFENCE BEATRIZ ÁLVAREZ RODRIGUEZ!
The 17th of November 2020 Beatriz Álvarez Rodriguez successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Nairovirus nucleoproteins: development of diagnostic tools, structural characterisation and functional studies".
read more...PhD DEFENCE JOYCE ODEKE AKELLO!
On 21st of October 2020 Joyce Odeke Akello successfully defended her thesis: “Identification and Characterisation of Emerging Viruses from Clinical and Environmental Samples”.
read more...An Outbreak of HONOURs publications!
In 2020 and the number of HONOURs publications in peer-reviewed journals was over 20! From all angles the ESRs have looked at viruses crossing borders between humans and animals. Arboviruses, CRESS viruses, flaviviruses, adenovirus, ebola virus, pestivirus polyomavirus and of course.......
read more...HONOURs Virus Outbreak Preparedness and COVID-19
HONOURs YouTube movie about outbreak preparedness and COVID-19.
Eidgenössisches Departement des Inneren: Institute of Virology and Immunology works on COVID-19.
Check out how Swiss National televisions presents the “one-week” synthetic biology viruses.
Cormac Kinsella the best at CADDE!
Cormac Kinsella has won the best poster award at the first CADDE genomic epidemiology workshop in São Paulo (2nd Dec- 6th Dec) - the CADDE (Brazil-UK Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnostics, Genomics & Epidemiology) project brings together experts on viral epidemiology, genomics, vectors, public health, among others to monitor and respond to arboviral disease outbreaks.
Commercialisation of vaccines at MSD Animal Health, a great finale of the HONOURs-ESRs courses
The ESRs had a fascinating week at MSD Animal Health. Ad de Groof, Senior Project Leader, put on an excellent programme, inviting speakers who covered topics across the whole pipeline of vaccine development.
read more...The second and final course on Protein Production course for 8 ESRs by INGENASA in Madrid.
The last eight ESRs that did not follow the first course on Protein Production now followed the course (October 2019) that covered systems in which proteins can be expressed, how proteins can be purified, and ultimately how they can be used in diagnostic tests, in particular lateral flow assays and ELISAs.
Best Poster award for Cormac Kinsella!
At the 24th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), in Hong Kong (August 4 – 9, 2019),
BSL3/3+ transboundary animal diseases course at FLI
From 13-15 May 2019, the ESRs learned how research is done at the brand new high containment facilities of FLI.
2nd year HONOURs meeting at FLI and Hiddensee, Germany
From May 8th -10th, 2019, the second annual meeting of HONOURs was held in Germany. It was organized by the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI).
Microarrays for Virus Detection at FLI
From 6 - 8 May 2019 the course on Microarrays for Virus Detection was provided by the FLI. It was a mixed course
We have a winner!
We have a winner!
Mitra Gultom has won the Archives of Virology Gold Poster Award at the European Congress of Virology, Rotterdam.
read more...Novel Diagnsotics in Leeds
From January 21st - 23rd 2019 the course Novel Diagnostics was organized by the University of Leeds in collaboration with INGENASA from Madrid.
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First publications on the website.
Two VIDISCA courses: from pork blood soup to nodes and phosphates
In October and early November two HONOURs courses were executed at the AMC. The first course “VIRUS DISCOVERY using VIDISCA Next Generation Sequencing” showed the steps of the fast-VIDISCA and the analysis pipeline attached to the method.
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Primate Animal models at BPRC
The course Primate Animals Models was given from October 22nd – 25th 2018 at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in Rijswijk, the Netherlands.
Advanced Diagnostics: Amplifications in Berlin
In five days the HONOURs ESRs have been trained in primer design, proper sequence alignment and basic phylogenetic analysis
read more...HONOURs Training “Direct Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) after shearing” at FLI
Dirk Höper, Patrick Zitzow and Pauline Santos welcomed five ESRs from the HONOURs partner institutes on June 18 (Monday) for a one-week-training in “Direct NGS after shearing” at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health at the headquarters located at the Baltic Isle of Riems.
read more...Protein production from start to finish
From April 17th-20th 2018 the first Protein Production course was given to 7 ESRs by INGENASA in Madrid.
read more...The amazing world of Flavivirus Serology
In the week preceding the annual Honours Meeting in Kandersteg, all 15 ESR’s made their way
read more...Virus-host interactions on airway epithelia
A practical course on culturing differentiated airway epithelia was provided by the Eidgenössisches Departement des Inneren Institute of Virology and Immunology (Bern, Switzerland). From harvesting epithelia towards propagation, exposure to air, and differentiation. The course supplied all the tips and tricks needed to acquire nicely waving epithelial cells for research purposes.
1st year HONOURs meeting in Kandersteg, Switzerland
From March 12th -14th, 2018, the first annual meeting of HONOURs was held in Kandersteg, Switzerland. It was organized by the Eidgenössisches Departement des Inneren, the Institute of Virology and Immunology (Switzerland). Besides inspiring scientific presentations by Prof Dr Christian Griot and by Prof dr Laurent Kaiser, all
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Course Infectious Diseases in Amsterdam
In December 2017, December 2018, and December 2019, the course Infectious Diseases was and will be given to the ESRs in HONOURs.
HONOURs MEDIA TRAINING a BIG SUCCES
In December 2017 Marc van Ranst from the KU Leuven gave the first course of the specific HONOURs trainings. In two days
Succesfull Kick-Off Meeting!
Monday 3rd of April the HONOURs project has officially been launched with a Kick-Off meeting in Amsterdam.
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