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Gorben P. Pijlman is a researcher affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, insect science, molecular biology, and genetics.

Their scientific work covers various topics, emphasizing mosquito-borne diseases and control, viral infections and vectors, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects, transgenic plants and applications, vector-borne animal diseases, and genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms.

Throughout their career, Gorben P. Pijlman has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Virology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Viruses
  • One Health
  • Nature Communications

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Gorben P. Pijlman include:

  • Capsid-like particles decorated with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain elicit strong virus neutralization activity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Rise of the RNA machines - self-amplification in mRNA vaccine design, 2023, Trends in Biotechnology
  • The invasive Asian bush mosquito Aedes japonicus found in the Netherlands can experimentally transmit Zika virus and Usutu virus, 2020, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
  • Competition between Usutu virus and West Nile virus during simultaneous and sequential infection of Culex pipiens mosquitoes, 2020, Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • A Tale of 20 Alphaviruses; Inter-species Diversity and Conserved Interactions Between Viral Non-structural Protein 3 and Stress Granule Proteins, 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Gorben P. Pijlman has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Monique M. van Oers
  • Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt
  • Sandra R. Abbo
  • Jelke J. Fros
  • Corinne Geertsema

Best Publications

  • A Highly Structured, Nuclease-Resistant, Noncoding RNA Produced by Flaviviruses Is Required for Pathogenicity

    Gorben P. Pijlman;Anneke Funk;Natasha Kondratieva;Jason Leung

  • Thirty years of baculovirus-insect cell protein expression: from dark horse to mainstream technology.

    Monique M. van Oers;Gorben P. Pijlman;Just M. Vlak

  • Noncoding Flavivirus RNA Displays RNA Interference Suppressor Activity in Insect and Mammalian Cells

    Esther Schnettler;Mark G. Sterken;Jason Y. Leung;Stefan W. Metz

  • Role of Nonstructural Protein NS2A in Flavivirus Assembly

    Jason Y. Leung;Gorben P. Pijlman;Gorben P. Pijlman;Natasha Kondratieva;Jennifer Hyde

  • Chikungunya Virus Nonstructural Protein 2 Inhibits Type I/II Interferon-Stimulated JAK-STAT Signaling

    Jelke J. Fros;Wen Jun Liu;Natalie A. Prow;Corinne Geertsema

  • West Nile virus encodes a microRNA-like small RNA in the 3′ untranslated region which up-regulates GATA4 mRNA and facilitates virus replication in mosquito cells

    Mazhar Hussain;Shessy Torres;Esther Schnettler;Anneke Funk

  • Chikungunya Virus nsP3 Blocks Stress Granule Assembly by Recruitment of G3BP into Cytoplasmic Foci

    Jelke J. Fros;Natalia E. Domeradzka;Jim Baggen;Corinne Geertsema

  • Noncoding Subgenomic Flavivirus RNA: Multiple Functions in West Nile Virus Pathogenesis and Modulation of Host Responses

    Justin A. Roby;Gorben P. Pijlman;Jeffrey Wilusz;Alexander A. Khromykh

  • Effective chikungunya virus-like particle vaccine produced in insect cells.

    Stefan W. Metz;Joy Gardner;Corinne Geertsema;Thuy T. Le

  • Alphavirus Infection: Host Cell Shut-Off and Inhibition of Antiviral Responses.

    Jelke J. Fros;Gorben P. Pijlman

  • Comparative Usutu and West Nile virus transmission potential by local Culex pipiens mosquitoes in north-western Europe

    Jelke J. Fros;Pascal Miesen;Chantal B. Vogels;Paolo Gaibani

  • Vector competence of northern European Culex pipiens biotypes and hybrids for West Nile virus is differentially affected by temperature.

    Chantal B. F. Vogels;Jelke J. Fros;Jelke J. Fros;Giel P. Göertz;Gorben P. Pijlman

  • Vector competence of European mosquitoes for west Nile virus

    Chantal B.F. Vogels;Giel P. Göertz;Gorben P. Pijlman;Constantianus J.M. Koenraadt

  • Mosquito co-infection with Zika and chikungunya virus allows simultaneous transmission without affecting vector competence of Aedes aegypti.

    Giel P. Göertz;Chantal B. F. Vogels;Corinne Geertsema;Constantianus J. M. Koenraadt

  • Autographa californica baculoviruses with large genomic deletions are rapidly generated in infected insect cells

    G P Pijlman;E van den Born;D E Martens;J M Vlak

  • Induction and suppression of tick cell antiviral RNAi responses by tick-borne flaviviruses

    Esther Schnettler;Hana Tykalová;Mick Watson;Mayuri Sharma

  • Identification of pif-2, a third conserved baculovirus gene required for per os infection of insects.

    Gorben P. Pijlman;Andrea J. P. Pruijssers;Just M. Vlak

  • Noncoding Subgenomic Flavivirus RNA Is Processed by the Mosquito RNA Interference Machinery and Determines West Nile Virus Transmission by Culex pipiens Mosquitoes

    G. P. Göertz;J. J. Fros;J. J. Fros;P. Miesen;C. B. F. Vogels

  • Spontaneous excision of BAC vector sequences from bacmid-derived baculovirus expression vectors upon passage in insect cells.

    Gorben P. Pijlman;Jessica E. van Schijndel;Just M. Vlak

  • Capsid-like particles decorated with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain elicit strong virus neutralization activity.

    Cyrielle Fougeroux;Louise Goksøyr;Manja Idorn;Vladislav Soroka

  • Mechanism and structural diversity of exoribonuclease-resistant RNA structures in flaviviral RNAs.

    Andrea MacFadden;Zoe O'Donoghue;Patricia A G C Silva;Erich G Chapman;Erich G Chapman

  • Pivotal Role of the Non-hr Origin of DNA Replication in the Genesis of Defective Interfering Baculoviruses

    Gorben P. Pijlman;Jos C. F. M. Dortmans;Angela M. G. Vermeesch;Kai Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Just M. Vlak
Just M. Vlak Wageningen University & Research
Chantal B. F. Vogels
Chantal B. F. Vogels Yale University
Alexander A. Khromykh
Alexander A. Khromykh University of Queensland
Jan E. Kammenga
Jan E. Kammenga Wageningen University & Research
Roy A. Hall
Roy A. Hall University of Queensland
Andreas Suhrbier
Andreas Suhrbier QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Dirk E. Martens
Dirk E. Martens Wageningen University & Research
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Anna-Bella Failloux
Anna-Bella Failloux Institut Pasteur
Rob Goldbach
Rob Goldbach Wageningen University & Research

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