She specialized in the many aspects of microbiology and genomics, but also in bioinformatics and biostatistics.

Working experience

• Patent Attorney, V.O. (March 2025)
• Trainee Patent Attorney, V.O. (2021-2025)
• PhD student, Rega Institute KU Leuven (2015-2021)

Education

• PhD in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven (2020)
• MSc in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven (2015)
• BSc in Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven (2013)

Publications

• Conceição-Neto, N., Zeller, M., Lefrère, H., De Bruyn, P., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Yinda, C. K., Lavigne, R., Maes, P., Ranst, M. Van, Heylen, E. & Matthijnssens, J. Modular approach to customise sample preparation procedures for viral metagenomics: A reproducible protocol for virome analysis. Sci. Rep. 5, 16532 (2015).
• Yinda, C. K., Zeller, M., Conceição-Neto, N., Maes, P., Deboutte, W., Beller, L., Heylen, E., Ghogomu, S. M., Van Ranst, M. & Matthijnssens, J. Novel highly divergent reassortant bat rotaviruses in Cameroon, without evidence of zoonosis. Sci. Rep. 6, 34209 (2016).
• Yinda, C. K., Ghogomu, S. M., Conceição-Neto, N., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Vanhulle, E., Maes, P., Van Ranst, M. & Matthijnssens, J. Cameroonian fruit bats harbor divergent viruses, including rotavirus H, bastroviruses, and picobirnaviruses using an alternative genetic code. Virus Evol. 4, vey008 (2018).
• Theuns, S., Vanmechelen, B., Bernaert, Q., Deboutte, W., Vandenhole, M., Beller, L., Matthijnssens, J., Maes, P. & Nauwynck, H. J. Nanopore sequencing as a revolutionary diagnostic tool for porcine viral enteric disease complexes identifies porcine kobuvirus as an important enteric virus. Sci. Rep. 8, 9830 (2018).
• Vanmechelen, B., Bletsa, M., Laenen, L., Lopes, A. R., Vergote, V., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Korva, M., Avšič Županc, T., Goüy de Bellocq, J., Gryseels, S., Leirs, H., Lemey, P., Vrancken, B. & Maes, P. Discovery and genome characterization of three new Jeilongviruses, a lineage of paramyxoviruses characterized by their unique membrane proteins. BMC Genomics 19, 617 (2018).
• Yinda, C. K., Vanhulle, E., Conceição-Neto, N., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Shi, C., Ghogomu, S. M., Maes, P., Van Ranst, M. & Matthijnssens, J. Gut Virome Analysis of Cameroonians Reveals High Diversity of Enteric Viruses, Including Potential Interspecies Transmitted Viruses. mSphere 4, (2019).
• Beller, L. & Matthijnssens, J. What is (not) known about the dynamics of the human gut virome in health and disease. Curr. Opin. Virol. 37, 52–57 (2019).
• Shi, C., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Yinda, K. C., Delang, L., Vega-Rúa, A., Failloux, A.-B. & Matthijnssens, J. Stable distinct core eukaryotic viromes in different mosquito species from Guadeloupe, using single mosquito viral metagenomics. Microbiome 7, 121 (2019).
• Wollants, E., Beller, L., Beuselinck, K., Bloemen, M., Lagrou, K., Reynders, M. & Van Ranst, M. A decade of enterovirus genetic diversity in Belgium. J. Clin. Virol. 121, 104205 (2019).
• Deboutte, W., Beller, L., Yinda, C. K., Maes, P., de Graaf, D. C. & Matthijnssens, J. Honey-bee–associated prokaryotic viral communities reveal wide viral diversity and a profound metabolic coding potential. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 117, 10511–10519 (2020).
• Thijssen, M., Tacke, F., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Yinda, K. C., Nevens, F., Laleman, W., Van Ranst, M. & Pourkarim, M. R. Clinical relevance of plasma virome dynamics in liver transplant recipients. EBioMedicine 60, 103009 (2020).
• Simsek, C., Corman, V. M., Everling, H. U., Lukashev, A. N., Rasche, A., Maganga, G. D., Binger, T., Jansen, D., Beller, L., Deboutte, W., Gloza-Rausch, F., Seebens-Hoyer, A., Yordanov, S., Sylverken, A., Oppong, S., Sarkodie, Y. A., Vallo, P., Leroy, E. M., Bourgarel, M., Yinda, K. C., Van Ranst, M., Drosten, C., Drexler, J. F. & Matthijnssens, J. At least seven distinct rotavirus genotype constellations in bats with evidence of reassortment and zoonotic transmissions. MBio 12, (2021).

Languages

• Dutch (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (basic)