mra.asm.org/content/8/20/e… 2 years after the ebolavirus outbreak in Likati-DRC, the genome announcement is finally out! Full-length Ebola virus sequencing with Oxford Nanopore MinION in the field based on the freely available protocols of ARTIC Network. Joan Martí-Carreras Bert V

Buying some time with Bert V before the start of the Oxford Nanopore London Calling 2019 Oxford Nanopore Events #NanoporeConf Thrilled to see what's going around and to increase our expertise in this tech!

Excited to be here with Joan Martí-Carreras ! #NanoporeConf

Lots of people looking forward to an update from Clive and team. Grab yourself a prosecco and we'll see you in half an hour #nanoporeconf

Our PhD student @jvmembrebe got his visa denied (twice!) to attend #SMBE2019 in the UK... if you want to discover some of Jade's work, you can have a look at his paper in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… and i'm sure you can contact him for more details and discuss, right @jvmembrebe?

Very interesting experiment and a promising international research engagement in which Bert V , Ward D and myself have been involved in the last months! Can't wait for the second round with Ben Busby! et al ! Alban Ramette kindly assisted us during pre-submission! :)

Second edition of #VirusDiscovery #ncbicodeathon from #NCBI! #VirusIndexing organized by the amazing Ben Busby!! I couldn't miss the opportunity to get there so I turn myself into a cyborg! #viasq won the prize for integration of #cyborgs! Missed the crew!

Ik heb gestemd voor de #DeTijdloze van StuBru. Dit zijn mijn 3 favoriete nummers aller tijden: detijdloze.stubru.be/share/0885480e…

Monday we sequenced the #nCoV2019 genome of the first Belgium case with Oxford Nanopore MinION. Suspected sample received @ 9 pm, confirmed and full genome out @ 5 am. From suspected sample to result in 8 hours. All thanks to our great team KU Leuven, and protocols of ARTIC Network

#Viruses2020 Second Day! Leading virologists from around the world and across the broad field of virology to share results of their recent studies in Barcelona. MDPI

Bert V poster on discovery of a novel paramyxovirus in Belgian hedgehogs. Really interesting.

We released 141 new Belgian SARS2-CoV strains today on #GISAID sequenced with Oxford Nanopore using ARTIC Network protocol. Proud of my Sam Van Campenhout zidu team! Tony Wawina B. Joan Martí-Carreras Bert V

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here is voor mij de beste plaat aller tijden. Heb jij al gestemd voor #DeTijdloze 100 van StuBru? stem.stubru.be/detijdloze/sha…

Exploration of the Ixodes ricinus virosphere unveils an extensive virus diversity including novel Coltiviruses and other reoviruses biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to present our latest exploratory study of the virosphere of Belgian ticks. We found a great diversity of viruses carried by these ticks. Several if these are possible pathogenic for humans. academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art…

The discovery of #Lopma_virus and #Praja_virus, two new members of the family Arteriviridae found in African rodents, sheds new light on the evolutionary origin of rodent-borne #arteriviruses. Full Text View: mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/9… #Editors_Choice

Today 2 suspected B.1.1.529 (Nu variant) samples were analyzed. Samples were flagged as suspicious because of an S gene dropout qPCR. 1 sample was confirmed to be the new Nu variant. This patient was not vaccinated and developed mild symptoms 11 days after returning from Egypt.

The full-length sequence of a second case of #monkeypox detected in Belgium on 19/05/2022 is available on Virological Posts. Sequenced with Oxford Nanopore. Tony Wawina B. Bert V

Tuesday at KU Leuven with Anton🔬 we sequenced a total of 24 monkeypox samples on a single flowcell using the new (NextGen)PCR tiling approach! Piet Maes Tony Wawina B.

euroweeklynews.com/2022/08/09/chi… #Langya We at the Piet Maes lab recently also reported the discovery of shrew-borne henipaviruses in West Africa and Europe, indicating a potential for zoonotic outbreaks of similar viruses in other parts of the world. See academic.oup.com/ve/article/8/2…