BBC News
By Lisa Summers
It would ordinarily be things like flu, zika or feline calicivirus that keep the scientists at Glasgow University's Centre for Virus Research (CVR) busy.
Their combined expertise in human and veterinary medicine looks at emerging diseases in all corners of the globe.
But since last February, the centre has largely focused on the global response to coronavirus. Hundreds of projects are ongoing, ranging from investigating SARS-CoV-2 in cats to the monitoring of long Covid or looking at the body's immune response to the virus.
Some of the most significant research comes as part of a consortium carrying out rapid genomic sequencing of coronavirus - tracking new variants and monitoring the significance of changes.