Dr. Daniel Cadar’s research focuses on understanding the diversity, evolution, ecology, and transmission dynamics of viruses affecting humans, animals, and vectors.

His current projects include the characterization of viromes in tropical and temperate ecosystems, genomic surveillance of emerging arboviruses, the study of zoonotic transmission processes, and the development of metagenomics-based approaches for pathogen detection.

His work integrates genomic, ecological, environmental, and epidemiological data under the One Health approach.

He also investigates how deforestation, agriculture, and climate change alter ecosystems and increase host–pathogen contact.

With the aim of anticipating emerging threats such as Disease X, he develops predictive models and early warning systems.

Head of the Metagenomics and Viral Evolution Group and of the Central Next-Generation Sequencing Platform (NGS Core Facility), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany.

• The impact of temperature and insect-specific viruses on the transmission of alphaviruses by Aedes japonicus japonicus
  Microbiology Spectrum, 2025.
• Transcriptional signatures of Ebola and Marburg virus infection in a bat-immune-system mouse model
  Advances in Virus Research, 2025.
• Assessment of the effectiveness of West Nile virus screening among blood donors in Germany
  Eurosurveillance, 2025.
• Fatal dengue virus infection in an unvaccinated traveler
  European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2025.
• Genomic characterization of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus outbreak in North Macedonia
  Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2024.
• Auto-antibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in severe arboviral disease
  Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2024.
• Vaccine-derived yellow fever in an immunocompromised patient
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024.
• Lethal Borna disease virus 1 infections of humans and animals
  Nature Communications, 2024.
• Assessing viral metagenomics for diagnosis of acute fever in travellers
  Journal of Travel Medicine, 2024.
• Serologic and Genomic Investigation of West Nile Virus in Kosovo
  Viruses, 2024.