Biography:

Dr Tapanut Songkasupa graduated Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Chulalongkorn university in 2012 and M.Sc at the University of Edinburgh in 2017. He obtains the position of veterinary virologist (professional level) at the National Institute of Animal Health, Thailand. His responsibilities include the diagnosis of several viral diseases of animals, including import/export testing and the development and validation of diagnostic tests. Over 8 years of extensive virology laboratory research experience in livestock health including epidemiology, molecular microbiology, and diagnosis based on virus isolation, PCR, and nucleotide sequencing. Discovered and detected novel viruses in livestock such as AHSV, PPRV and LSDV.