Serra, F. et al. (2014) Full-Length PrP but not PrP-C1 is depleted in autolytic brainstem samples of cattle. Abstract published in Prion, Volume 8, Supplement 1, 2014. Poster at the Prion conference Triest, 2014. Serra, F. et al. (2014) Truncated prion protein fragments in healthy and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) affected cattle: interference with laboratory diagnosis and implications for disease control. Project presentation at the Neurocenter-Vetsuisse Faculty, May 2014.
Serra, F. et al (2015) Investigation on a particular PrPres fragment in bovine autolytic brain samples. Presentation at the TSE-EURL workshop 2015, June 2015, Weybridge, UK.
Serra, F. et al. (2016) Unusual PrP in Swiss cows shows biochemical similarities with BSE-associated PrP but does not induce a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Scheduled talk for the 4th Conference of European Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (EAVLD), Prague 6.-9.11.2016.
Serra, F. et al. (2016) Investigation on a particular prion protein in recent cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Switzerland. Poster at the TSE-EURL workshop 2015, June 2016, Weybridge, UK.
Boujon, C.; Serra, F.; Seuberlich, T. (2016) Atypical variants of bovine spongiform encephalopathy: rare diseases with consequences for BSE surveillance and control. Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd. 2016 Mar;158(3):171-7. doi: 10.17236/sat00053.
Serra, F.; Seuberlich, T. (2016) Commentary on "Identification of H-type BSE in Portugal". Prion. 2016 Jul 19:12. [Epub ahead of print].
Serra, F.; Dudas, S.; Torres, J.-M.; Anderson, R.; Oevermann, A.; Espinosa, J.C.; Czub, S.; Seuberlich, T. Intracerebral inoculation of unusual Swiss 2011 BSE isolates into cattle does not induce a transmissi-ble spongiform encephalopathy but seeds prion protein aggregation. Aberrant BSE cases in Switzer-land, 2011: lack of prion disease in experimentally infected cattle and bovine prion protein transgenic mice Submitted for publication and under review .
Serra, F.; Müller, J.; Gray, J.; Lüthi, R.; Dudas, S.; Czub, S.; Seuberlich, T. PrP-C1 fragment in cattle brains reveals features of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy associated PrPsc. Brain Res. 2017 Mar 15;1659:19-28. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2017.01.015. Epub 2017 Jan 22 Submitted for publication and under review.
Serra, F. Truncated prion protein fragments in healthy and BSE affected cattle: interference with laboratory diagnosis and implications for disease control. PhD Thesis, Universität Bern, 2017