Esben Terp Fjederholt

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.

BatSpot is a neural network for detecting and classifying bat echolocation calls, buzzes, and social calls, outperforming existing tools and enabling retraining for specific regions.

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.