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Tierra Smiley Evans

Tierra Smiley Evans

Assistant Research Scientist

One Health Institute

Office
One Health Institute, Davis, CA 95616

Licenses
Diplomate of California Veterinary Medicine License
Education
2005, BS, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2010, DVM, Cummings School of Veternary Medicine, Tufts University, Grafton, MA
2008, Large Wildlife Safe Capture Certification, Grafton, MA
2009, Smithsonian National Zoo, Washington, DC
2010, White Oak Conservation Center, Yulee, FL
2016, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA
2012, Large Wildlife Safe Capture Certification, Sacramento, CA
2014, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), Hamilton, MT
Active Research Grants
Co-Principal Investigator, Epicenter for Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence, Christine Johnson (Principal Investigator), National Institutes of Health
Co-Principal Investigator, Impacts of rapid landscape change and biodiversity on virus host specificity , Christine Johnson (Principal Investigator), National Science Foundation
Trainer, Investigation of ecological drivers of sarbecovirus spillover in Myanmar and Nepal, Ohnmar Aung (Principal Investigator), National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigator, Myanmar Skywalker Gibbon Conservation Project, (Principal Investigator), Arcus Foundation
Research Focus
Infectious disease epidemiology and the connection between zoonotic disease emergence and environmental change
Specialty Focus
Wildlife conservation and the development of non-invasive surveillance methods
Ten Recent Publications

2022
Pandit PS, Anthony SJ, Goldstein T, Olival KJ, Doyle MM, Gardner NR, Bird B, Smith WA, Wolking D, Gilardi K, Monagin C, Kelly T, Uhart M, Epstein JH, Machalaba C, Rostal MK, Dawson P, Hagan E, Sullivan A, Li H, Chmura AA, Latinne A, Lange C, O'Rourke T, Olson SH, Keatts L, Mendoza AP, Perez A, de Paula CD, Zimmerman D, Valitutto M, LeBreton M, McIver D, Islam A, Duong V, Mouiche M, Shi Z, Mulembakani P, Kumakamba C, Ali M, Kebede N, Tamoufe U, Bel-Nono S, Camara A, Pamungkas J, Coulibaly K, Abu-Basha E, Kamau J, Silithammavong S, Desmond J, Hughes T, Shiilegdamba E, Aung O, Karmacharya D, Nziza J, Ndiaye D, Gbakima A, Sijali Z, Wacharapluesadee S, Robles EA, Ssebide B, Suzán G, Aguirre LF, Solorio MR, Dhole TN, Nga NTT, Hitchens PL, Joly DO, Saylors K, Fine A, Murray S, Karesh W, Daszak P, Mazet JAK, PREDICT Consortium, Johnson CK
Predicting the potential for zoonotic transmission and host associations for novel viruses

2022
Lane JK, Negash Y, Randhawa N, Kebede N, Wells H, Ayalew G, Anthony SJ, Smith B, Goldstein T, Kassa T, Mazet JAK, Consortium P, Smith WA
Coronavirus and Paramyxovirus Shedding by Bats in a Cave and Buildings in Ethiopia

2022
Iyer ML, Molter CM, Flanagan JP, Bauer KL, Bernardy R, Hoffman D, Parkinson L, Brainard BM, Evans TS^, Pursell T, Ling PD
Novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 1A hemorrhagic disease in a captive juvenile Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)

2021
Saylors K, Wolking D, Hagan E, Martinez S, Francisco L, Euren, Olson S, Miller M, Fine A, Thanh N, Minh P, Kalengkongan J, PREDICT Consortium, Kusumaningrum T, Latinne A, Pamungkas J, Safari D, SaputroS, Bamba D, Coulibaly K, Dosso M, Laudisoit A, Jean K, Dutta S, Islam A, Shano S, Mwanzalila M, Trupin I, Gbakima A, Bangura J, Yondah S, Karmacharya D, Shrestha R, Kamta M, Mouiche M, Ndolo H, Niama F, Onikrotin D, Daszak P, Johnson C, Mazet J
Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats

2021
Grange ZL, Goldstein T, Johnson CK, Anthony S, Gilardi K, Daszak P, Olival KJ, O'Rourke T, Murray S, Olson SH, Togami E, Vidal G; Expert Panel; PREDICT Consortium, Mazet JAK; University of Edinburgh Epigroup members those who wish to remain anonymous
Ranking the risk of animal-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses

2021
Smiley Evans T^, Grange Z, Belkhiria J, Lane J, Genovese B, Togami E, Mazet J
Beyond COVID-19: Conserving Nature to Prevent the Next Pandemic

2021
Smiley Evans T^, Myat TW, Hom NS, Ricks K, Maw MT, Oo ZM, Toe AT, Aung NT, Aung PP, Aung TH, Keuhnert P, Thant KZ, Win YT, Thein WZ, Gardner N, Shoepp R, Johnson CK, Thu HM.
Seroepidemiologic Survey of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Logging Communities, Myanmar

2020
Johnson CK, Hitchens PL, Pandit PS, Rushmore J, Smiley Evans T, Young C, Doyle M
Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk

2020
Jeffrey A, Smiley Evans T^, Molter C, Howard L, Ling P, Goldstein T, Gilardi K
Noninvasive sampling for detection of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus and genomic DNA in Asian (Elephas maximus) and African (Loxodonta africana) elephants

2020
Montecino-Latorre D, Goldstein T, Gilardi K, Wolking D, Van wormer E, Kazwala R, Ssebide B, Nziza J, Sijali Z, Cranfield M, PREDICT Consortium, Mazet J
Reproduction of East-African bats may guide risk mitigation for coronavirus spillover