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    ​The Center for Wildlife Health is located within the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries in the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. The Center provides a multidisciplinary environment for the study of health issues arising from the interaction of wildlife, livestock, humans and the environment.

    Photo montage of Center for Wildlife research project ​​

    ​News​ 

    • PhD student Davis Carter, along with his colleagues and professors, has released a publication on the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal).

    • A study on ranavirus, led by Matt Gray, was recently published in Ecological Modelling. Gray was lead PI on the project and mentored authors Peace and O'Regan, both post-docs with NIMBioS. Other authors include research associates in the Center for Wildlife Health (CWH), a PhD student in FWF, and a DVM student that worked in CWH.

    • Congratulations to graduate student Ana Towe, winner of the Terry Amundson Presentation Award at the International Wildlife Disease Association Conference. The award recognizes outstanding student research and scholarship in the field of wildlife health. Ana’s talk was titled ‘Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in the Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis)’.

    • Assessment of the Asian longhorned tick in the United States

    • EurekAlert! NSF awards UTIA faculty grant to study fungal pathogen of amphibians:
      $2.5 million study to examine pathogen that devours the skin of salamanders

    • New Bsal Rap by UTIA CWH students

    • UTIA CWH study confirms significant disease risk if gloves are not changed or animals are co-housed during research

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