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Findings and Output

The ZOE consortium fully embraces Open Science practices, under the premise ‘as open as possible as closed as necessary’. ZOE is pre-registered at the Open Science Framework (OSF) of the nonprofit Center for Open Science. This ensures the management of research data in line with the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability.

The consortium will post here ZOE’s publications and presentations at international conferences. Stay tuned!

ZOE Knowledge Exchange Platform is live online to link stakeholders interested and/or involved in research activities aiming at understanding and mitigating the risks of zoonotic and vector-borne disease emergence in relation to ecosystem degradation and associated biodiversity loss. Explore the map here (link) to find out about projects funded by the European Commission and other funding agencies that address research questions at the Biodiversity-Health Nexus.

ZOE policy briefs

The ZOE consortium prepared the first policy brief of the project at its mid-term, introducing ZOE and elaborating on its first policy recommendations for the prevention and mitigation of zoonotic diseases linked to habitat degradation and biodiversity loss.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20450011

Embedding Biodiversity within One Health in the Strategy for European Life Sciences

The ZOE consortium co-published a position paper at the biodiversity-health nexus demonstrating the need to integrate biodiversity as a foundational component of prevention-oriented and resilient One Health approaches against emerging infectious diseases.

ZOE’s publications and presentations at international conferences are listed below:

Fischer et al. 2025. The spatiotemporal ecology of Oropouche virus across Latin America: a multidisciplinary, laboratory-based, modelling study. Lancet Infect Dis. S1473-3099(25)00110-0. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00110-0

Set up of ZOE methodological framework combining in vitro and in silico data for modelling risk predictors of and areas at risk of pathogen transmission.

Piche-Ovares et al. Rio Mamore Hantavirus Endemicity, Peruvian Amazon, 2020. EID 30(12):2532-43 https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3012.240249

Set up workflow for serological analyses of prototypic rodent-borne pathogens and identification of hantavirus positive samples used to validate the microarray assay developed in ZOE.

Jo et al. 2024. Ancient evolutionary origins of hepatitis E virus in rodents. PNAS 121(51):e2413665121 https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2413665121

Set up of the methodology for nucleic acid extraction and pathogen screening for rodent organs.

Jo et al. 2025. Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection in Nonhuman Primate, Guatemala, 2023. Emerg Infect Dis. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241484

Set up of the methodology for nucleic acid extraction and pathogen screening.

Wesselmann et al. 2025. Development and evaluation of a duplex RT-qPCR assay for the detection and identification of Mayaro and chikungunya viruses. J Clin Microbiol. 63(8):e0042025. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241484

Development of a highly sensitive and specific duplex RT-qPCR assay for simultaneous detection of Chikungunya and Mayaro viruses, which are mosquito borne and co-circulate in the Americas.