Dr Christine Tait-Burkard
Tenure Track Fellow/Research Fellow
- The Roslin Institute
- Department of Infection & Immunity
- Department of Genetics & Genomics
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Christine Tait- Burkard is a group leader at The Roslin Institute/University of Edinburgh and an expert on coronaviruses and arteriviruses. She holds a BSc and MSc in Biology, Major Biochemistry, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland and a PhD in Virology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Qualifications
Virology, Doctor of Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 2015
Biology, Master in Science, Major Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, 2009
Biology, Bachelor in Science, Major Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, 2008
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Primary supervisor
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James Owen
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Holly Kerr
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Izzy Hoskins
Second supervisor
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Alison Daniels
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Susi Keane
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Alexandra Florea
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Vera van Vliet (University of Leiden joint student)
Past PhD students supervised
- Elle McLuskey
Research summary
Her research focuses on understanding how porcine and zoonotic viruses interact with their hosts and how this understanding can be used to identify genetic susceptibility/resistance and develop diagnostics and treatments. Braving the split between human and animal viruses and technologies Christine is, for example, involved in the generation of genome edited pigs resistant towards one of the most costly pig viruses but also part of the IMI CARE consortium aiming to identify and repurpose drugs against SARS-CoV-2 infection causing COVID-19.
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Effects of a water-soluble formulation of tylvalosin on disease caused by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus alone in sows or in combination with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in piglets
(16 pages)
In:
BMC Veterinary Research, vol. 19, pp. 1-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-023-03571-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Coding-Complete Genome Sequence of an African Swine Fever Virus from an Outbreak in 2021 among Domestic Pigs in Pangasinan, Philippines
In:
Microbiology Resource Announcements, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00719-22
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Self-derived peptides from the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein disrupting shaping and stability of the homotrimer unit
In:
Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, vol. 151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2022.113190
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Direct Lysis RT-qPCR of SARS-CoV-2 in Cell Culture Supernatant Allows for Fast and Accurate Quantification
In:
Viruses, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/v14030508
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Stem cell-derived porcine macrophages as a new platform for studying host-pathogen interactions
(14 pages)
In:
BMC Biology, vol. 20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01217-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Stem cell-derived macrophages as a new platform for studying host-pathogen interactions in livestock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.10.459580
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
No part gets left behind: Tiled nanopore sequencing of whole ASFV genomes stitched together using Lilo: Tiled amplicon sequencing with improved assembly of African Swine Fever Virus
(35 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.01.470769
Research output: › Preprint (E-pub ahead of print) -
Site specific relationships between COVID-19 cases and SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater treatment plant influent
In:
Environmental Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05029
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Secreted SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 modulates the cytokine expression profile of human macrophages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.13.456266
Research output: › Working paper (E-pub ahead of print) -
A Methodology for Remote Microwave Sterilization Applicable to the Coronavirus and Other Pathogens using Retrodirective Antenna Arrays
(12 pages)
In:
IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JERM.2021.3077110
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)