Researcher
Dirk de Graaf
- Keywords:resilience, microbiology, bee pathology, disease resistance, breeding programs, honey bee, apiculture, genetics
- Disciplines:Animal pathology, Animal health engineering, Agricultural animal production not elsewhere classified, Invertebrate biology, Animal genetics, Animal morphology, anatomy and physiology, Animal immunology
Affiliations
- Honeybee Valley (Administrative office)
Responsible
From1 Oct 2014 → 31 Mar 2022 - Honeybee Valley (Administrative office)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → 31 Mar 2022 - Honeybee Valley (Administrative office)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → 31 Mar 2022 - Department of Physiology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2009 → 30 Sep 2014 - Department of Biochemistry and microbiology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2001 → Today
Projects
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- Occurrence of protective alleles in honey bees from Ethiopia (Apis mellifera simensis)From1 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Improving Bees' Resilience to Stressors by Restoring Harmony and BalanceFrom1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Unraveling the honeybee colony mortality complex using an intensive long-term study with revolutionary diagnostic tools and exposure experimentsFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Best practices and innovations for a sustainable beekeepingFrom1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Genetic variants associated with honey bee resistance against Deformed wing virus and their use in CRISPR-based marker assisted selection to improve resilience of beesFrom1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Bacteriophages in the honey bee gut and their effects on health, behavior and development. (B-Phage project)From1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Marker-assisted selection in honeybees, Apis mellifera, for increased Varroa resistanceFrom1 Dec 2019 → 30 Nov 2023Funding: Ministery of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment
- Giving Beekeeping Guidance by computational-assisted Decision makingFrom1 Jun 2019 → 30 Nov 2023Funding: H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
- Mechanisms by which honey bees in Africa (Ethiopia) cope with pathogens and pestsFrom1 Oct 2016 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Study of the host-pathogen interaction in breeding disease American foulbrood of the honeybee: virulence of Paenibacillus larvae and immunity of honeybee larvae.From1 Oct 2010 → 5 Jan 2016Funding: IWT personal funding - specialisation scholarships
Publications
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- Convivina is a specialised core gut symbiont of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina(2023)
Authors: Gowri Amanda Hettiarachchi, Margo Cnockaert, Marie Joossens, David Laureys, Jessika De Clippeleer, Nicolas J. Vereecken, Denis Michez, Guy Smagghe, Dirk de Graaf, Peter Vandamme
Pages: 510 - 527 - Beekeepers perception of risks affecting colony loss : a pilot survey(2022)
Authors: Noemie El Agrebi, Nathalie Steinhauer, Veronique Renault, Dirk de Graaf, Claude Saegerman
Pages: 579 - 590 - Virus prevalence in egg samples collected from naturally selected and traditionally managed honey bee colonies across Europe(2022)
Authors: David Claeys Boúúaert, Lina De Smet, Marleen Brunain, Bjørn Dahle, Tjeerd Blacquière, Anne Dalmon, Daniel Dezmirean, Dylan Elen, Janja Filipi, Alexandru Giurgiu, et al.
- Cold case : the disappearance of Egypt bee virus, a fourth distinct master strain of deformed wing virus linked to honeybee mortality in 1970's Egypt(2022)
Authors: Joachim R. de Miranda, Laura E. Brettell, Nor Chejanovsky, Anna K. Childers, Anne Dalmon, Ward Deboutte, Dirk de Graaf, Vincent Doublet, Haftom Gebremedhn, Elke Genersch, et al.
- Pyrethroid target-site resistance mutations in populations of the honey bee parasite Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) from Flanders, Belgium(2021)
Authors: Spyridon Vlogiannitis, Wim Jonckheere, Dries Laget, Dirk de Graaf, John Vontas, Thomas Van Leeuwen
Pages: 205 - 221 - CSI pollen : diversity of honey bee collected pollen studied by citizen scientists(2021)
Authors: Robert Brodschneider, Elfriede Kalcher-Sommersguter, Sabrina Kuchling, Vincent Dietemann, Alison Gray, Janko Božič, Andrejs Briedis, Norman L. Carreck, Robert Chlebo, Karl Crailsheim, et al.
- The first detection of Braula coeca in honey bee colonies in Uganda(2020)
Authors: Moses Chemurot, Dirk de Graaf
Pages: 193 - 194 - Heritability estimates of the novel trait 'suppressed in ovo virus infection' in honey bees (Apis mellifera)(2020)
Authors: Dirk de Graaf, Dries Laget, Lina De Smet, David Claeys Boúúaert, Marleen Brunain, Roel F. Veerkamp, Evert W. Brascamp
- Honey bee colony winter loss rates for 35 countries participating in the COLOSS survey for winter 2018-2019, and the effects of a new queen on the risk of colony winter loss(2020)
Authors: Alison Gray, Noureddine Adjlane, Alireza Arab, Alexis Ballis, Valters Brusbardis, Jean-Daniel Charriere, Robert Chlebo, Mary F. Coffey, Bram Cornelissen, Cristina Amaro da Costa, et al.
Pages: 744 - 751 - Pesticide and veterinary drug residues in Belgian beeswax : occurrence, toxicity, and risk to honey bees(2020)
Authors: Noemie El Agrebi, Kirsten Traynor, Olivier Wilmart, Simone Tosi, Laurent Leinartz, Ellen Danneels, Dirk de Graaf, Claude Saegerman