Zheng‐Li Shi

The paper identifies a novel vesiculovirus, Mediterranean bat virus (MBV), circulating in bats across the Mediterranean region using a new RT-qPCR method and genomic analysis.

The paper identifies two European bat MERS-related coronaviruses that use ACE2 as their receptor, revealing a distinct binding mode and host tropism determinants.

This paper develops a method to engineer customized viral receptors (CVRs) for various coronaviruses, enabling infection models for viruses lacking known receptors.

This study identifies RBM indel types in sarbecoviruses and their impact on ACE2 receptor usage across species, revealing how specific residues and structural features influence tropism and adaptiveness.

This study identifies unconventional IFNω-like genes as dominant in bat type I IFN loci and constitutive antiviral responses, revealing pan-bat immune system characteristics.

This study creates a spatial proteomic atlas of lung tissues from COVID-19 victims, identifying protein dysregulations and markers of pathological changes.