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.