Dr. Bert Devriendt is a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Immunology, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University. In 2010 he obtained his PhD on the interaction between the virulence factors of enterotoxigenic E. coli strains with intestinal epithelial cells and dendritic cells in a piglet model. During his postdoc he focuses on host-pathogen interactions in the gut and how the gained insights might be used to accelerate the development of oral vaccines to prevent enteric diseases. Furthermore, Dr. Devriendt also investigates the mechanisms by which alphaherpesviruses, such as pseudorabies virus, subvert the function of innate immune cells, like NK cells and plasmacytoid dendritic cells, in pigs.