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Original language | English |
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Article number | 1522 |
Journal | Viruses |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 7 |
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Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2022 |
Keywords
- big data
- emerging viruses
- epidemiology
- networking
- transcriptomics
- viral ecology
- viral infection
- virus bioinformatics
- virus discovery
- virus evolution
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In: Viruses, Vol. 14, No. 7, 1522, 01.07.2022.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/Letter to the editor › Academic
TY - JOUR
T1 - Women in the European Virus Bioinformatics Center
AU - Hufsky, Franziska
AU - Abecasis, Ana
AU - Agudelo-Romero, Patricia
AU - Bletsa, Magda
AU - Brown, Katherine
AU - Claus, Claudia
AU - Deinhardt-Emmer, Stefanie
AU - Deng, Li
AU - Friedel, Caroline C.
AU - Gismondi, María Inés
AU - Kostaki, Evangelia Georgia
AU - Kühnert, Denise
AU - Kulkarni-Kale, Urmila
AU - Metzner, Karin J.
AU - Meyer, Irmtraud M.
AU - Miozzi, Laura
AU - Nishimura, Luca
AU - Paraskevopoulou, Sofia
AU - Pérez-Cataluña, Alba
AU - Rahlff, Janina
AU - Thomson, Emma
AU - Tumescheit, Charlotte
AU - van der Hoek, Lia
AU - van Espen, Lore
AU - Vandamme, Anne-Mieke
AU - Zaheri, Maryam
AU - Zuckerman, Neta
AU - Marz, Manja
N1 - Funding Information: K.B. is funded by Wellcome Trust Grant 220814. S.D.-E. received funding from the the Interdisciplinary Center of Clinical Research of the Medical Faculty Jena (ACSP02) and is is supported by the BMBF (project SARS-CoV-2Dx, FKZ: 13N15745). M.I.G. is funded by ANPCyT Grant Numbers PICT 2017-2581 and PICT 2019-3477; CONICET grant number PIP 11220200102454CO. E.G.K. was supported by a fellowship funded by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program ‘Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning’ (NSRF 2014–20), under the call ‘Supporting Researchers with an Emphasis on Young Researchers—Cycle B’ (MIS: 16508). D.K. is funded by the Max Planck Society. U.K-K. is funded by the Government of India grants: DST (EMR/2016/002498) and DBT (BT/PR40171/BTIS/137/21/2021). L.N. is funded by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP21J22509. C.C.F. is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (grant IDs: FR 2938/9-1, FR 2938/10-1, FR 2938/11-1). S.P. is supported by the European Centre for Disease Control (grant number ECDC GRANT/2021/008 ECD.12222). A.P.C. is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Generalitat Valenciana (APOSTD/21/292). J.R. received funding by the German Research Foundation (grant number DFG RA3432/1-1) for the project “Exploring the virioneuston: Viral-bacterial interactions between ocean and atmosphere (VIBOCAT)”. C.T.’s research was funded by National Research Foundation of Korea grant numbers 2020M3A9G7103933, 2021R1C1C102065 and European Research Council grant number 646891. L.v.d.H.’s research was funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant agreement number 721367 (HONOURs). L.V.E. is supported by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO—Research Foundation Flanders) with a PhD fellowship strategic basic research (grant ID: 1S25720N). MicrobLiver has received funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme (ID: 16692). MICROB-PREDICT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No rnaw. Funding Information: Lore Van Espen is a PhD researcher at the KU Leuven, Belgium, where she also obtained her BSc and MSc in Biomedical Sciences in respectively 2016 and 2018. She currently works at the Laboratory of Viral Metagenomics, Rega Institute, and is supported by an FWO fellowship. Her research focuses on the human gut virome, including eukaryotic viruses and phages, in patients with chronic liver disease. The gut viromes are studied using the in-house developed NetoVIR protocol [] and a combination of optimized bioinformatic tools. A first aim of the project was to develop a viral genome catalog (DEVoC), that led to the identification of a previously undescribed prevalent phage []. Currently, her major focus point is to study the interaction between phages and their bacterial hosts. Her PhD project is part of two European consortia, MicrobLiver and MICROB-PREDICT ( https://microb-predict.eu/ ), both aiming at understanding the role of the global gut microbiome in chronic liver disease by integrating host and microbial multi-omics to identify diagnostic and/or predictive biomarkers. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.
PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - Viruses are the cause of a considerable burden to human, animal and plant health, while on the other hand playing an important role in regulating entire ecosystems. The power of new sequencing technologies combined with new tools for processing “Big Data” offers unprecedented opportunities to answer fundamental questions in virology. Virologists have an urgent need for virus-specific bioinformatics tools. These developments have led to the formation of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center, a network of experts in virology and bioinformatics who are joining forces to enable extensive exchange and collaboration between these research areas. The EVBC strives to provide talented researchers with a supportive environment free of gender bias, but the gender gap in science, especially in math-intensive fields such as computer science, persists. To bring more talented women into research and keep them there, we need to highlight role models to spark their interest, and we need to ensure that female scientists are not kept at lower levels but are given the opportunity to lead the field. Here we showcase the work of the EVBC and highlight the achievements of some outstanding women experts in virology and viral bioinformatics.
AB - Viruses are the cause of a considerable burden to human, animal and plant health, while on the other hand playing an important role in regulating entire ecosystems. The power of new sequencing technologies combined with new tools for processing “Big Data” offers unprecedented opportunities to answer fundamental questions in virology. Virologists have an urgent need for virus-specific bioinformatics tools. These developments have led to the formation of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center, a network of experts in virology and bioinformatics who are joining forces to enable extensive exchange and collaboration between these research areas. The EVBC strives to provide talented researchers with a supportive environment free of gender bias, but the gender gap in science, especially in math-intensive fields such as computer science, persists. To bring more talented women into research and keep them there, we need to highlight role models to spark their interest, and we need to ensure that female scientists are not kept at lower levels but are given the opportunity to lead the field. Here we showcase the work of the EVBC and highlight the achievements of some outstanding women experts in virology and viral bioinformatics.
KW - big data
KW - emerging viruses
KW - epidemiology
KW - networking
KW - transcriptomics
KW - viral ecology
KW - viral infection
KW - virus bioinformatics
KW - virus discovery
KW - virus evolution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137192150&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3390/v14071522
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/v14071522
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 35891501
SN - 1999-4915
VL - 14
JO - Viruses
JF - Viruses
IS - 7
M1 - 1522
ER -