Invitation PhD defence Mariken de Wit

Written by OneHealthPact on September 8, 2026. Posted in News.

One of our 26 PhD’s is holding her defence on Thursday 15^th of October. Her PhD thesis is entitled “Hiding in plain sight: Revealing transmission dynamics through data-driven modelling of Usutu and West Nile virus”.

The defence will take place on Thursday 15^th October at 13.00h at the Omnia building on the WUR campus (Hoge Steeg 2, 6708 PH, Wageningen.

Not able to attend? Watch the livestream via https://wur.yuja.com. Click on ‘Events’ and select the defence of your choice. The livestream will start five minutes before the defence. Would you like to watch the defence at a later moment? Then please visit https://wur.yuja.com and click on the library icon. Open the folder ‘PhD’ and use the Search-function to look for the specific defence you’d like to (re)watch. More information about the livestream can be found here.

For any further questions about the day, you can reach out to paranymphs You Chang (you.chang@sund.ku.dk) and Clara Delecroix (clara.delecroix@envt.fr).