Takele Tesgera

Dr
Takele
Tesgera

Lead Researcher, Serology Laboratory
National Veterinary Institute
Biography

1. Attended BSc degree in veterinary laboratory technology at college of Veterinary Medicine, Addis Ababa University, 2006-2010

2. Attended MSc degree in tropical veterinary microbiology at college of Veterinary Medicine, Addis Ababa University, 2012-2015.

3. Attended Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China. (2017- 2020).

Title of thesis: Development of competitive ELISA for detection of different poxviruses by using two primary antibodies after producing polyclonal antibody in rabbit.

Major subject: Proteomics, Viral immunology

Skills

Development of veterinary vaccine

Development of Enzyme Linked immunosorbent assay

Protein analysis

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Gene cloning and expression

Familiar with, Microsoft Office (Excel, Power point, Word), SPSS, GraphPad.

Research interests

Development of live attenuated vaccine againest sheep contagious Ecthyma.

Projects you're working on

Development of diffrent veterinary vaccines

Discipline
Immunology – B-cells Molecular biology Protein biology Virology
Host species
Small ruminants
Pathogen
Viruses VirusesPoxviruses
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design