Camille Melissa Johnston

The paper develops a broad-range RT-qPCR assay to detect merbecoviruses in Danish bats and identifies two new infections, including a novel lineage in Nathusius' pipistrelle.

This paper presents a semi-automated workflow using sequence clustering and varVAMP to design broad-range RT-qPCR primers for diverse viruses, improving representation and reducing redundancy.

The paper uses metagenomic sequencing to recover and characterize full-length coronavirus genomes from bats and wild mustelids, expanding knowledge of coronavirus diversity and evolution in wildlife.

This study shows that ASFV infection in pigs leads to a >1000-fold increase in circulating cell-free DNA, which may serve as a marker for virulent infection, unlike CSFV infection.