Dutch PhD student Judith Oymans visits the Centre for Viral Zoonoses in Pretoria, South Africa

Following the training of two South African students Caitlin Macintyre (master student) and Elise Bonnet (PhD student), in the Netherlands, Wageningen University PhD student Judith Oymans visited the Centre for Viral Zoonoses in Pretoria. Judith supported the students in setting up the baculovirus expression system and shared her expertise on the development of new expression plasmids for different proteins. Judith was familiarized with PCR protocols to detect alpha-, flavi-, and orthobunyaviruses in mosquito-, animal- and human samples.