Tarka Raj Bhatta
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Tarka is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory (ARRL), Barwon Health, University Hospital in Geelong. He is working on Coxiella genomics, Q fever vaccine development and clinical metagenomics in the research group of Professors John Stenos and Stephen Graves. Tarka is also an Affiliate Lecturer at Deakin University.
From 2021 to 2023, Tarka held a postdoctoral position at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark where he worked on coronavirus biology under Professor Graham Belsham.
Prior to 2022, Tarka was a joint PhD student at Deakin University (based at Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (GCEID)) and University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He was an APPRISE student and his PhD thesis title was: Detection and characterisation of animal influenza and other viruses. His PhD Supervisors were Professor Soren Alexandersen and Dr Anthony Chamings.
Tarka also has a BSc in Microbiology and an MSc in Biotechnology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8199-8444
Related Publications
- Exploring the cause of diarrhoea and poor growth in 8–11-week-old pigs from an Australian pig herd using metagenomic sequencing
- An increased ratio of SARS-CoV-2 positive to negative sense genomic and subgenomic RNAs within routine diagnostic upper respiratory tract swabs may be a marker of virion shedding [preprint]
- Infection dynamics of swine influenza virus in a Danish pig herd reveals recurrent infections with different variants of the H1N2 swine influenza A virus subtype
- SARS-CoV-2 genomic and subgenomic RNAs in diagnostic samples are not an indicator of active replication
- Metagenomic characterisation of avian parvoviruses and picornaviruses from Australian wild ducks
- Detection of a reassortant H9N2 Avian Influenza virus with intercontinental gene segments in a resident Australian Chestnut Teal
- Detection and characterisation of canine astrovirus, canine parvovirus and canine papillomavirus in puppies using next generation sequencing