Dr. T. (Tessa) Nelemans

As a postdoctoral researcher at the Viroscience department, I work on characterizing flavivirus replication in biologically relevant cells such as skin cells and neurons. At the moment, we are mainly using different cell culture models representing the central nervous system to study mechanisms of neuroinvasion by flaviviruses such as West Nile virus and Usutu virus. In addition, I am trying to better understand what causes the difference in neuropathogenicity between these viruses.

Flaviviruses,

Molecular virology

Innate immunity

• 2025 - present: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• 2020 - 2025: PhD student, Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases, LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands

See: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-3949