Professor Tanja Opriessnig
Chair of Infectious Disease Pathology, Group Leader
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Availability
Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Background
2002-2006: Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, USA
2006-2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, USA
2010-2013: Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, USA
2013-present: Professor, Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, USA (20%)
2013-present: Professor, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK (80%)
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Iowa State University Understanding the pathogenesis of porcine circovirus type 2-associated diseases Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria Nachweismethoden, Prävalenz und Sequenzierung porziner Circoviren in Österreich (Detection, prevalence, and sequencing of porcine circovirus in Austria) Bachelors in Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
Research summary
Infectious disease models; Intervention strategies; Pathology; Veterinary diagnostics; Pigs.
Current research interests
Infectious disease investigations in pigs including porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), porcine reproductive and respiraotry syndrome virus (PRRSV), swine hepatitis E virus (HEV), porcine astrovirus (PAstV), emerging porcine parvovirus (PPV), and Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.-
Livestock disease resilience: from individual to herd level
In:
Animal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2021.100286
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Novel universal primer-pentaplex PCR assay based on chimeric primers for simultaneous detection of five common pig viruses associated with diarrhea
In:
Molecular and Cellular Probes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcp.2021.101747
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Quantifying the Persistence of Vaccine-Related T Cell Epitopes in Circulating Swine Influenza A Strains from 2013-2017
In:
Vaccines, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9050468
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Review of methods for the detection of Lawsonia intracellularis infection in pigs
In:
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10406387211003551
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Probiotics mediated gut microbiota diversity shifts are associated with reduction in histopathology and shedding of Lawsonia intracellularis
In:
Animal Microbiome
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42523-021-00084-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Third update on possible animal sources for human COVID-19
In:
Xenotransplantation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.12671
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
First investigation of the prevalence of parvoviruses in slaughterhouse pigs and genomic characterization of Ungulate copiparvovirus 2 in Vietnam
In:
Archives of Virology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-020-04928-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Future perspectives on swine viral vaccines: where are we headed?
In:
Porcine Health Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40813-020-00179-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Isolation and evolutionary analyses of gout-associated goose astrovirus causing disease in experimentally infected chickens
In:
Poultry Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2020.11.003
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Porcine astrovirus type 5-associated enteritis in pigs
In:
Journal of Comparative Pathology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2020.09.014
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)