The Center for Wildlife Health at University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

• A New Ranavirus Threatens U.S. Amphibian Diversity

• 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

CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA:

• American Fisheries Society & The Wildlife Society Joint Annual Conference
• WDA Annual International Conference
• Mitigating single pathogen and co-infections that threaten amphibian biodiversity
• Hellbender Symposium
• Annual "One Medicine" Symposium
• CEMPH Research Symposium

OTHER PROGRAMS OF INTEREST:

• UTIA Bsal Project
• The Wildlife Disease Association
• UTK WDA Student Chapter
• The Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS)
• The Global Ranavirus Consortium
• USGS National Wildlife Health Center
• The Consortium for Conservation Medicine
• UC Davis Wildlife Health Center
• Conservation Medicine Center of Chicago
• Society of Vector Ecology
• Entomological Society of America
• American Mosquito Control Association