Lander De Coninck

This paper organizes a community challenge to develop automated virus taxonomy classification tools and evaluates their performance on a combined dataset of expert-curated and metagenomic sequences.

The paper analyzes microbial diversity in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes across life stages and breeding sites, finding convergent enrichment of Gammaproteobacteria, suggesting maternal transmission.

This study evaluates combinations of approved oral nucleoside analogues against multiple alphaviruses in vitro and in vivo, finding synergistic antiviral effects and reduced viral mutation rates with combination therapy.

The paper investigates viruses in Cameroonian blackflies, finding a high abundance of novel viral sequences but no known neurotropic viruses, suggesting potential zoonotic disease risks.

The paper identifies and characterizes Sapovirus genetic diversity in Nigerian children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis using metagenomic sequencing.

The paper reports the first detection of kdr L1014F and ace-1 G119S insecticide resistance mutations in Belgian Culex mosquitoes, highlighting the need for surveillance.