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Janet Foley

Janet Foley

Professor and Agronomist

Medicine & Epidemiology

Office
1320 Tupper Hall, Davis, CA 95616

Education
1985, BA, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA,
1987, MS, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA,
1993, DVM, University of California, Davis,
1997, PhD, University of California, Davis,
Active Research Grants
Principal Investigator, A home of their own: restoration of desert wetlands to support a source population of endangered Amargosa voles, (Principal Investigator), Bureau of Land Management
Principal Investigator, Restoring the Amargosa legacy and preserving the iconic Amargosa vole, (Principal Investigator), Bureau of Land Management
Co-Investigator, Ecological Investigations of Emerging High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses, Bird, B (Principal Investigator), USDA
Co-Investigator, Pacific Southwest Regional Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases, Barker, C (Principal Investigator), CDC
Principal Investigator, Ensuring Population Persistence of Endangered Amargosa Voles During Drought , (Principal Investigator), California Dept of Fish and Wildlife
External Links
Foley Laboratory
Honors and Awards
1991 Moss Belknap Scholarship
1991 Contra Costa County Kennel Club Award
1992 Nola Ehrenburg Memorial Feline Medicine Award
1992 California Veterinary Medical Association Auxiliary Award
1993 UC Davis Feline Medicine Senior Award
1995-1997 Krade and Maddox Feline Medicine Fellowship
2005 Patent - Virulent Systemic Feline Calicivirus
2018 2018 Zoetis Award for Exceptional Research, for exceptional research at the interface between ecology and epidemiology.
2020 US Fish and Wildlife Service Recovery Champion as a part of the Amargosa Vole Recovery Implementation Team. Recovery Champions are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff and their partners whose work is advancing the recovery of endangered and threatened species of plants and animals.
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2022 Foley JE, Sellon RK, Mills WZ, Evermann JF, Sykes JE, Rankin SC: Chapter 7, Clinical Epidemiology in Infectious Diseases and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, Sykes JE, (ed), Greene's Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat, 5th Edition, . 64-71.
2020 Foley J: Ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and related infections in animals, , Merck Veterinary Manual, . .
2020 Foley J: Tularemia in animals, , Merck Veterinary Manual, . .
2020 Foley JA: Ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, and related infections in animals, , Merck Veterinary Manual, . .
2020 Foley JE: Tularemia in animals, , Merck Veterinary Manual, Kenilworth, NJ. .
Research Focus
I study the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases in complex communities. While the majority of systems I study are vector-borne (anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, mange, plague, et al.), I and my collaborators also are involved in applied infectious disease ecology problems in other systems including chytridiomycosis in frogs and salamanders, multiple-host transmission dynamics of reptile diseases, and disease in coral. Overall, we aim to understand how community complexity contributes to disease persistence and emergence, and how driving factors are affected by anthropogenic change. Related to this major goal are a collection of projects that include assessing various species' health in the wild and managing disease and other stressors in endangered and threatened species, such as the American pika, the endangered Amargosa vole, and the endangered San Joaquin kit fox.
Specialty Focus
Epidemiology
Ten Recent Publications

2023
Backus LH, López Pérez AM, Marcek J, Shultz L, Zazueta O, Shooter S, Foley JE
Rickettsial antibodies and Rickettsia bellii detection in lagomorphs and their ectoparasites in Northern Baja California, Mexico

2023
Lopez-Perez A, Haswell PM, Clifford D, Foley J
Interspecific interactions, human proximity, and season affect spatiotemporal structure of a Mojave Desert wetlands rodent community with a highly endangered species

2023
Cypher BL, Deatherage NA, Westall TL, Kelly EC, Foley JE, Clifford DL, Rudd JL
Movements by San Joaquin Kit Foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) between urban and nonurban habitats: implications for interpopulation disease transfer

2023
Pascoe EL, Vaughn CE, Jones MI, Barrett RH, Foley JE, Lane RS
Recovery of western black-legged tick and vertebrate populations after a destructive wildfire in an intensively-studied woodland in northern California

2023
Foley P, Foley J^, Rudd J, Clifford D, Westall T, Cypher B
Spatio-temporal and transmission dynamics of sarcoptic mange in an endangered New World kit fox

2023
Beever EA, Wilkening JL, Billman PD, Thurman LL, Ernest KA, Wright DH, Gill AM, Craighead AC, Helmstetter NA, Svancara LK, Camp MJ, Bhattacharyya S, Fitzgerald J, Hirose JMR, Westover ML, Gerraty FD, Klinger KB, Schmidt DA, Ryals, DK, Brown RN, Clark SL, Clayton N, Collins GH, Cutting KA, Doak DF, Epps CW, Foley JE, French J, Hayes CL, Mills ZA, Moyer-Horner L, Nichols LB, Orlofsky KB, Peacock MM, Penzel NC, Peterson J, Ramsay N, Rickam T, Robinson MM, Robison, HL, Rowe KMC, Rowe KC, Russello MA, Smith AB, Stewart JAE, Thompson WW, Thorne JH, Waterhouse MD, Weber SS, Wilson KC
Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: Implications for conservation status and actions

2023
Backus L, Foley J, Chung C, Virata S, Zazueta OE, López-Pérez A
Tick-borne pathogens detected in sheltered dogs during an epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a One Health challenge

2023
Haswell PM, López-Pérez AM, Clifford DL, Foley JE
Recovering an endangered vole and its habitat may help control invasive house mice

2022
López-Pérez AM, Chaves A, Sánchez-Montes S, Foley P, Uhart M, Barrón-Rodríguez J, Becker I, Suzán G, Foley J
Diversity of rickettsiae in domestic, synanthropic, and sylvatic mammals and their ectoparasites in a spotted fever-epidemic region at the western US-Mexico border

2022
Ferreyra HDV, Rudd J, Foley J, Vanstreels RET, Martín AM, Donadio E, Uhart MM
Sarcoptic mange outbreak decimates South American wild camelid populations in San Guillermo National Park, Argentina