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Currently I am a Research Entomologist for The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) (Personal ARS webpage), and the Lead Scientist on the Ticks and Human Health project (Ticks and Human Health project page) located at the Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior lab at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville MD.
Historically: I received a BS in Entomology from Cornell University and then worked as a technician in Medical and Veterinary Entomology at Cornell before taking a position for Johns Hopkins University as the field supervisor of an Onchocerciasis research project in Liberia, West Africa. Returning to Cornell I took a position as the lead technician in the Insect Chemical Ecology Research lab working with Dr. Tom Eisner. In 1990 I began graduate work as an NIH predoctoral scholar in Vector Biology at the University of Notre Dame, where I received MS and PhD Degrees as the last doctoral student of Dr. George Craig. My graduate research focused on the role of the newly invasive mosquito Aedes albopictus in the vector biology of canine heartworm. After leaving Notre Dame I did postdoctoral work at The Plum Island Animal Disease Center on African Swine Fever Virus through a USDA cooperative agreement with Yale University, followed by a second Postdoctoral stint in the Vector Ecology lab at the Yale University School of Medicine with Dr. Durland Fish, working on Ixodes scapularis-borne pathogens. While at Yale I “discovered” Borrelia miyamotoi and was the recipient of the Yale Brown-Coxe Fellowship.
In 2000 I joined the USDA, ARS, Animal Disease Research Unit (ADRU) located at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington as a Research Entomologist. Research at ADRU focused on tick-borne pathogens of livestock including cattle, horses and sheep. I served as the lead scientist on the Anaplasma project from 2006-2011, but as the only entomologist in the unit with 9 other scientists including veterinarians, microbiologists, and molecular biologists, I was involved in all tick-borne disease research at ADRU including research on the vector biology of bovine and ovine Anaplasmosis, bovine Babesiosis and Theileriosis, and equine Piroplasmosis. During this time I also ran the tick rearing program at our ADRU facilities at the University of Idaho and oversaw all IACUC protocols related to use of animals in the tick research program at the facility. I had extramurally funded projects on development of anti-tick vaccines, tick population genetics and tick microbiome studies. In August 2019 after 19 years at ADRU, I was transferred by the ARS to the Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior lab at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Beltsville MD to establish a new ARS project on human biting ticks; I’m currently serving as the Lead Scientist on the Ticks and Human Health project at BARC.
I am the author or co-author on more than 110 peer reviewed publications (h-index 41, i10-index 91) and hold 3 patents (Google Scholar Page). I have academic appointments and sit on several graduate committees at the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology at Washington State University, and the Department of Entomology and Nematology at the University of Idaho. I also sit on graduate committees at Kansas State University and Rutgers University Departments of Entomology; in total I have served on over 40 graduate committees. I am a founding steering committee member and current instructor for the annual University of Idaho Biology of Vector-borne Disease course. I have served in various roles as a member of the Entomological Society of America for more than 35 years, most notably in 2016 I was selected as an ESA Science Policy Fellow and until recently I sat on the ESA Publications Council (8 years). I am also on the steering committee for the most recently approved USDA, ARS Grand Challenge project: Integrated Approaches for the Control of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases of Livestock.
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Parasitologiano. 29 (2023): 284-292
The Journal of animal ecologyno. 11 (2023): 2175-2188
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