Researcher
Dieter Heylen
- Keywords:Biology
- Disciplines:Animal biology, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Ecology, Evolutionary biology , General biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Molecular and cell biology, Plant biology, Systems biology, Other biological sciences, Other natural sciences
Affiliations
- Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2008 → Today
Projects
1 - 8 of 8 results
- Prioritizing Lyme borreliosis risk areas for forest and nature management based on novel insights in tick ecology.From1 Jan 2019 → TodayFunding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Identification of Lyme borreliosis risk areas for forest and nature management based on novel insights in tick ecology.From1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Individual variation and evolutionary potential of parasite traits in a songbird-tick system: direct and indirect genetic effects.From1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project
- Transmission cycles of tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and rickettsial bacteria in a songbird tick communityFrom1 Feb 2015 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Transmission dynamics of tick-borne Borrelia and rickettsial bacteria in a songbird tick community.From1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research grant KAN
- Transmission dynamics of tick-borne Borrelia and rickettsial bacteria in a songbird tick community.From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
- Borrelia infections in songbirds and bird-specialized ticksFrom1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2012Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Host-parasite interactions between resident songbirds, ixodid ticks and Borrelia spirocheten.From1 Oct 2011 → 30 Sep 2014Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 52 results
- Isolation of Candidatus Rickettsia vini from Belgian Ixodes arboricola ticks and propagation in tick cell lines(2020)
Authors: Alaa M. Al-Khafaji, Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Gerardo Fracasso, Lisa Luu, Dieter Heylen, Erik Matthysen, José A. Oteo, Ana M. Palomar
Number of pages: 8 - Host identification in unfed ticks from stable isotope compositions ($\delta^{13}C$ and $\delta^{15}N$)(2019)
Authors: Dieter Heylen, O. Schmidt, H. Dautel, L. Gern, H. Kampen, J. Newton, J. Gray
Pages: 360 - 366 - Lyme neuroborreliosis and bird populations in northern Europe(2019)
Authors: Atle Mysterud, Dieter Heylen, Erik Matthysen, Aïda Lopez Garcia, Solveig Jore, Hildegunn Viljugrein
Number of pages: 10 - First investigations on serum resistance and sensitivity of Borrelia turcica(2019)
Authors: Sabrina Hepner, Volker Fingerle, Dieter Heylen, Durdica Marosevic, Katayoon Ghaffari, Mercy Okeyo, Andreas Sing, Gabriele Margos
Pages: 1157 - 1161 - A transcriptome-based phylogenetic study of hard ticks (Ixodidae)(2019)
Authors: N. Pierre Charrier, Axelle Hermouet, Caroline Hervet, Albert Agoulon, Stephen C. Barker, Dieter Heylen, Celine Toty, Karen D. McCoy, Olivier Plantard, Claude Rispe
Number of pages: 13 - Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city(2019)
Authors: Dieter Heylen, Robin Lasters, Frank Adriaensen, M. Fonville, H. Sprong, Erik Matthysen
Pages: 941 - 949 - Year-to-year variation in the density of **Ixodes ricinus** ticks and the prevalence of the rodent-associated human pathogens **Borrelia afzelii** and **B. miyamotoi** in different forest types(2018)
Authors: Sanne C. Ruyts, Wesley Tack, Evy Ampoorter, Elena C. Coipan, Erik Matthysen, Dieter Heylen, Hein Sprong, Kris Verheyen
Pages: 141 - 145 - Isolated populations of **Ixodes lividus** ticks in the Czech Republic and Belgium host genetically homogeneous **Rickettsia vini**(2018)
Authors: Markéta Novákova, Petr Heneberg, Dieter Heylen, Matej Medvecky, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, David Šmajs, Ivan Literák
Pages: 479 - 484 - Low probability of a dilution effect for Lyme borreliosis in Belgian forests(2018)
Authors: Sanne C. Ruyts, Dries Landuyt, Evy Ampoorter, Dieter Heylen, Steffen Ehrmann, Elena C. Coipan, Erik Matthysen, Hein Sprong, Kris Verheyen
Pages: 1143 - 1152 - Parasitisme en symbiose(2018)
Authors: Lore Bulteel, Lien Reyserhove, Emilie Macke, Luc Lens, Aimeric Teyssier, Joel White, Lieze O. Rouffaer, Lisa Furu Baardsen, Dries Bonte, Joost Raeymaekers, et al.
Pages: 75 - 81