Led by Emma Teeling, Matae Ahn, Michael Hiller and Bjoern Schumacher on work packages updates for BatProtect.  With Bjoern Schumacher giving a 10-minute chalk talk as a demonstration in advance of our Cologne face-to-face consortium meeting, 1-3rd December 2025.

Led by Emma Teeling from UCD on fieldwork samples and transcriptomes.

Researchers from Duke-NUS, UKK and SNG gave 5 minute presentations, introducing themselves and their research areas.

Researchers from UCD and Duke-NUS gave 5 minute presentations, introducing themselves and their research areas.

Led by Alejandro Gonzales-Irribarren from SNG on the Annotation Pipeline.

Led by Frederic Touzalin from UCD on Ageing, immune markers and pathogens. What we need and what are our methods?

Led by Jerry Wilkinson, from the Department of Biology, at the University of Maryland on Using DNA methylation to study bat ageing.

Led by David Meyers from UKK on Machine learning for bat transcriptomics.

Led by Orlin (Dominic) Alcock and Emma Teeling from UCD on Stress response in bat cells.

Led by Sia Wan Rong and Matae Ahn from DukeNUS on Increased sensitivity and unique responses to DNA damage in Eonycteris spelaea.

Led by Ilze Skujina from UCD on DNA Repair.

Led by Randy Foo and Matae Ahn from DukeNUS on Sampling Protocols.

Led by Asya Martirosyan from UKK on Metabolism and Longevity in Myotis Myotis.

Led by Emma Teeling from UCD on Age Categories.

Led by Michael Hiller from SGN on Toga 2