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With thirty-nine scientists from fourteen fields as faculty
affiliates, the WHC brings together the curiosity and expertise needed
to truly understand why wildlife health and ecosystems are in crisis.
Avian ecology; wild birds; ecotoxicology
Epidemiology and medical ecology of infectious diseases potentially transferred between livestock and wildlife; assessing microbial contamination of the environment by livestock and wildlife, with a special emphasis on microbial contamination of surface water.
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Co-Director of the Wildlife Health Center. Biotechnology, epidemiology, immunology, infectious diseases (ruminant,
wildlife, zoo/exotic)
Web Page; wmboyce@ucdavis.edu
Identification of viral determinants of vector competence and vertebrate virulence for arthropod-borne viruses, such as West Nile encephalitis virus. Molecular epidemiological approaches and genetic engineering techniques for improved diagnostics and risk assessment for emerging diseases transmitted by arthropod vectors.
Bacterial pathogenesis and host:pathogen interactions. Control of expression of virulence proteins of Rhodococcus equi, interaction of Salmonella enteritidis with epithelial cells, and characterization of intestinal microbiota in health and disease.
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Director of Center for Animal Disease Modeling. Livestock production economics; mathematics and simulation modeling; spatial and wildlife epidemiology.
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Veterinary informatics; health information standardization; information modeling; data mining and analysis; epidemiology and disease surveillance; geographic information systems; viral pathogenesis, immunology, prevention and control.
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Zoonotic disease epidemiology and diagnostics; microbiology; infectious disease (bovine, companion animal,
laboratory animal, primate, ruminant, wildlife).
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Erythrocyte biochemistry and pathology, particularly mechanisms of oxidative
damage as related to diet, ketone-lactate-glucose metabolism, and toxic
agents. Diagnostic clinical pathology, especially wildlife clinical pathology
(with an emphasis on desert tortoises) and clinical chemistry.
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(Zoological Society of San Diego Affiliate)
Captive wildlife medicine; diseases associated with intensive husbandry; reintroduction of captively-bred endangered species.
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Biochemical and molecular control of gonadal and adrenal steroidogenesis and its role in the reproductive development and physiology of vertebrates.
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Biotechnology, immunology, infectious disease, parasitology. Molecular biology; immunology of pathogenic protozoa
(Neospora, babesia, sarcocystosis). Development of parasite-specific DNA
probes and immunoassays; immunological and epidemiological studies on
protozoal parasites of dogs, horses, cattle and humans; special interest
in characterization of protozoal parasites that cause infertility, abortion
in cattle; and tick-transmitted protozoa.
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(USGS Affiliate)
Director of the National Wildlife Health Center (Madison, Wisconsin). Impacts of zoonotic diseases on public health and policy; wildlife conservation and public policy; conservation education.
Waterfowl ecology and evolution; behavioral ecology; ecological and conservation
genetics
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Genetics for wildlife conservation and management; genetic epidemiology;
conservation biology; wildlife veterinary medicine; spatial ecology; forensic
genetics
Web Page; hbernest@ucdavis.edu
Raptor medicine; falconry; infectious diseases and toxins in wild birds.
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Epidemiology of vector-borne diseases. Special interests include granulocytic ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, and plague. Simulation and analytical modeling of infectious disease persistence and emergence in nature, using different pathogen-host systems. Infectious diseases in animal shelters: bordetellosis, diarrheal diseases, feline URI, arthropod induced dermatopathy. Maintenance and spread of infectious diseases in coral reef ecosystems.
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Development of productive, compliant, and safe laboratory practices for diagnostics and research.
Epidemiology of swine, wildlife, and livestock diseases; diagnostic test
evaluation; analytical and clinical epidemiology; swine pneumonia
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Diseases of free-ranging wildlife and how they impact wildlife populations,
domestic animals, and people; diseases of deer, river otters, killer whales, and harbor seals. Regional director of the SeaDoc Society (based on Orcas Island, Washington).
Web Page; jkgaydos@ucdavis.edu
Director of SeaDoc Society (formerly Marine Ecosystem Health Program)
at the Wildlife Health Center, including the California Derelict Fishing Gear Removal Project, and co-director of the Envirovet Summer Institute.
Provides veterinary services to various threatened and endangered species
recovery programs, and conducts research on marine/aquatic animal health
and ecosystem health.
Web Page; kvgilardi@ucdavis.edu
(Humboldt State University Affiliate)
Habitat use, energetics, food habits and nutrition; urban wildlife; and effects of anthropogenic disturbance on wildlife
(California Department of Fish and Game Affiliate)
Wildlife medicine with emphasis on reducing the risk of transmitting infectious disease between wildlife and livestock
Companion avian and exotic animal medicine and surgery; disease transmission between companion exotics and their owners.
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Effects of infectious diseases on cultured fish and shellfish. Emphasis
on viral diseases/agents including those of sturgeon, salmonids and ornamental
fish. Also microsporidian and myxosporean agents are under investigation
including "myxobolus" and "cerebralis," the cause
of whirling disease.
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(California Department of Fish and Game Affiliate; WHC Research Associate)
Infectious diseases and their effect on wildlife populations. Oil pollution and other man-made and environmental toxins; wildlife capture, anesthesia, and handling and relocation.
djessup@ospr.dfg.ca.gov
Risk factors for disease in free-ranging wildlife and their impact on wildlife populations. Causes of mortality and risk factors for pathogen exposure in California sea otters. Coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Game Resource Assessment Program. Veterinary and
statistical / analytical services for research projects on threatened and endangered wildlife.
ckreuder@ucdavis.edu
Comparative physiology: respiratory, cardiovascular, exercise, metabolic, thermoregulation, environmental, integrative, evolutionary; biomechanics, allometry, structure-function relationships; physiological ecology; and transport stress.
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Population genetics and animal forensics. Using simple tandem repeats (STRs) or microsatellites and mtDNA markers to define the genetic and population structures of captive and wild populations of non-human primates. Animal forensics based on the analyses of traces of animal blood, saliva and hair collected at crime scenes or from civil cases for DNA-typing.
(Zoological Society of San Diego Affiliate)
Captive and free-ranging wildlife medicine, especially felids.
Mammalian reproductive hormones, fertility and fecundity; field applications of contraception.
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Captive and free-ranging wildlife medicine. Tuberculosis in wildlife.
Web page slarsen@ucdavis.edu
Biotechnology, epidemiology, reproduction (primate, wildlife, zoo/exotic).
Ovarian function; early pregnancy and comparative reproductive endocrinology.
Wildlife reproduction. Comparative reproductive endocrinology, toxicology,
and epidemiology. Reproduction of non-domestic species; endocrine aspects
of female fertility and early pregnancy, reproductive epidemiology.
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Infectious disease, rotavirus, epidemiology (primates). Vertical and transplacental
transmission of HIV/ Epidemiology, pathogenesis of primate viral diseases;
disease ecology of free-ranging primate populations
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Pathology and pathogenesis of naturally occurring diseases of captive
and free-living marine mammals, nonhuman primates, and birds especially
those affecting conservation and captive propagation. Current focus is
on the herpesviruses of sea lions and harbor seals, the role of viruses
and pollutants in cancer in sea lions, domoic acid intoxication in marine
mammals and birds, diseases of gorillas, orangutans and bonobos and cardiovascular
disease in great apes.
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Comparative genetics; genetic maps to address inherited diseases.
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Viral pathogenesis; Molecular characterization of West Nile virus, equine arteritis virus & bluetongue virus; pathogenesis of bluetongue infection of cattle, sheep and wildlife; pathogenesis of equine arteritis virus infection.
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Effects of infectious diseases and toxicants on wild fish populations
Effects of oil on wildlife; recovery of endangered species, especially small passerines.
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Co-Director of the Wildlife Health Center. Development and application of epidemiological techniques for the conservation of threatened ecosystems with focus on the impacts of infectious diseases and toxins on wildlife populations
Web Page; jkmazet@ucdavis.edu
Behavioral ecology and evolution of mammalian vocal communication; animal behavior and communication as tools for animal production, management, and conservation
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(California Department of Fish and Game Affiliate)
Investigative pathology in marine animals; toxoplasmosis; domoic acid; sea otter recovery.
Foreign animal diseases; food animal diseases, pathology and toxicology; diseases of fish and fish pathology; botulism in livestock.
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Cell pathology, immunotoxicology, mast cell biology, signal transduction,
cellular calcium regulation, immunotoxicology.
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Diseases of wild and captive cheetahs, including investigations in helicobacter
gastritis, veno-occlusive disease, and the role of captive stress in their
pathogenesis. Pathogenesis of endometrial growth disorders and and effects
of progestins, particularly in carnivores. Diseases of wild canids and
felids with emphasis on infectious diseases. Safety assessments of GnRH
analogs and ZP vaccines and contraceptives for felids.
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Biotechnology, immunology, infectious disease (bovine, ruminant). Immunopathology,
fetal and viral disease, bluetongue virus, preharvest food safety.
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Pathophysiology of respiratory disease; pathophysiology of gastrointestinal disease
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Infectious and immunologic diseases of animals. Retroviral diseases of
cats and monkeys. Animal models for human AIDS.
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(Zoological Society of San Diego Affiliate)
Pathogenesis and epidemiology of infectious diseases; avian embryonic
and neonatal pathology as it relates to captive propagation for recovery
programs; population dynamics of infectious disease and disease risk assessment
for translocation and reintroduction programs
Laura Rogers-Bennett’s research at Bodega Marine Laboratory addresses processes that impact the health of marine populations and communities and applies these to fishery management and marine conservation issues.
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Anesthesia, anesthesiology, cardiopulmonary physiology, physiology/pharmacology.
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Immunology infectious disease (bovine, ruminant, equine, wildlife). Immunopathogenesis
of viral and bacterial diseases in ruminant, equine and marine mammal
species. Immunomodulation of the mucosal immune system. Developmental
and comparative immunology of marine mammal species, domestic livestock
(bovine/equine) and zoo animals.
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(Zoological Society of San Diego Affiliate)
Captive and free-ranging wildlife medicine.
Diseases of free ranging and companian avian species. Special emphasis on avian mycobacteriosis and treatment of avian fungal infections of the respiratory tract. Expanding population size of endangered psittacine species and providing a means of genome resource banking.
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Animal ethics and law; agricultural law and ethics; veterinary ethical, legal, and policy studies; animal research ethics; animal welfare science and ethics; environmental ethics
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Wildlife pathology with emphasis on primates.
Viral pathogenesis and the effects of antiviral drug treatment. HIV vaccine research for developing countries.
Captive and free-ranging wildlife medicine. Safe and effective immobilization drugs.
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Dr. Weber joins UC Davis from the New England Aquarium in Boston. He will be collaborating on efforts to develop a California Marine Animal laboratory. Interest and experience with zoological and aquarium collections, companion exotic animals, marine animal rehabilitation, and conservation medicine. Special interest in the immune response of fish, reptiles, and amphibians to infectious disease.
Aquatic Toxicology. Heat shock proteins. Develop and apply biochemical, molecular and physiological biomarkers to assess organism health and the impact of anthropogenic pollutants on aquatic organisms.
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Muscle growth and development; neurotoxicology; ecotoxicology
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Director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the Wildlife Health Center. Wildlife and molecular epidemiology; diagnostic test development and validation
for wildlife species; effects of petroleum on marine birds and mammals
Web Page; mhziccardi@ucdavis.edu
(Zoological Society of San Diego Affiliate)
Captive and free-ranging wildlife medicine; endangered species recovery and reintroduction; diagnostic techniques in large mammals.
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