Researcher
Frank Pasmans
- Keywords:reptile and amphibian medicine, veterinary bacteriology and mycology, wildlife health
- Disciplines:Veterinary conservation medicine, preventive medicine and hygiene, Zoological medicine, Veterinary microbiology, Veterinary public health and food safety, Conservation and biodiversity
Affiliations
- Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine (Department)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2023 → Today - Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2023 → Today - Department of Pathobiology, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 1998 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 39
- Development of minimum standards for keeping reptilesFrom3 Apr 2023 → TodayFunding: Department of Environment
- Linking pathology with ecology to preserve commonness of a declining emblematic species, the common toad (Bufo bufo)From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Understanding the adaptation of emerging infectious diseases to novel environments: can Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans evolve fast enough to establish maintenance in European amphibian communities?From1 Jan 2023 → 31 Jan 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- The autoclave as essential equipment in a laboratory that studies host-pathogen interactionsFrom15 Dec 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Bsalomics - Identifying the genomic basis of amphibian immunity to Bsal, the emerging infectious disease devastating salamander populations across Europe.From1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- The origin of the tadpole intestinal and skin microbiomes and their role in the development of immunocompetence against a fungal pandemic in amphibiansFrom1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Molecular unit: key equipment for veterinary researchFrom1 Dec 2020 → 30 Nov 2022Funding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- AntiFUNzymen IIFrom1 Sep 2020 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: IOF - technology validation in lab
- RF19/6333 Immunization of broiler breeders to protect broilers against Campylobacter infectionFrom1 Sep 2020 → TodayFunding: Ministery of Social Affairs, Public Health and Environment
- Robust, user-friendly and state-of-the-art fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS)From1 May 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO Medium Size Research Infrastructure
Publications
1 - 10 of 497
- Establishment of a real-time PCR assay for the detection of Devriesea agamarum in lizards(2023)
Authors: Maria Brockmann, Christoph Leineweber, Tom Hellebuyck, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Michaela Gentil, Elisabeth Müller, Rachel E. Marschang
- Tourism may threaten wildlife disease refugia(2022)
Authors: Philippe J. R. Kok, Alexandra Laking, Carl Smith, Arturo Berti, An Martel, Frank Pasmans
- Widespread disease in hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans(2021)
Authors: An Martel, Filip Boyen, Jorg Rau, Tobias Eisenberg, Andreas Sing, Anja Berger, Koen Chiers, Sarah Van Praet, Serge Verbanck, Muriel Vervaeke, et al.
Pages: 2686 - 2690 - Epidermal galactose spurs chytrid virulence and predicts amphibian colonization(2021)
Authors: Yu Wang, Elin Verbrugghe, Leander Meuris, Koen Chiers, Moira Kelly, Diederik Strubbe, Nico Callewaert, Frank Pasmans, An Martel
- Ratio-dependent functional response of two common Cladocera present in farmland ponds to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis(2021)
Authors: Niels De Troyer, Stijn Bruneel, Koen Lock, Mark Greener, Arne Deknock, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Peter Goethals
- Diversity, multifaceted evolution, and facultative saprotrophism in the European Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans epidemic(2021)
Authors: Moira Kelly, Frank Pasmans, Jose F. Munoz, Terrance P. Shea, Salvador Carranza, Christina A. Cuomo, An Martel
- Diet diversity and environment determine the intestinal microbiome and bacterial pathogen load of fire salamanders(2021)
Authors: Yu Wang, Hannah Keely Smith, Evy Goossens, Lionel Hertzog, Molly C. Bletz, Dries Bonte, Kris Verheyen, Luc Lens, Miguel Vences, Frank Pasmans, et al.
- Using environmental DNA for detection of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in natural water(2020)
Authors: Annemeraieke Spitzen - van der Sluijs, Tariq Stark, DeJean Tony, Elin Verbrugghe, Jelger Herder, Maarten Gilbert, Jöran Janse, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Alice Valentini, et al.
Pages: 565 - 571 - Response to comment on 'Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity'(2020)
Authors: Ben C. Scheele, Frank Pasmans, Lee F. Skerratt, Lee Berger, An Martel, Wouter Beukema, Aldemar A. Acevedo, Patricia A. Burrowes, Tamilie Carvalho, Alessandro Catenazzi, et al.
- Dampened virulence and limited proliferation of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans during subclinical infection of the troglobiont olm (Proteus anguinus)(2020)
Authors: Zhimin Li, Elin Verbrugghe, Rok Konstanjsek, Maja Lukac, Frank Pasmans, Ivan Cizelj, An Martel
Patents
1 - 4 of 4
- Vaccine strains of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae (Inventor)
- Vaccine strains of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae (Inventor)
- Salmonella vaccine (Inventor)
- Prevention of Salmonella recrudescense (Inventor)