Chronic Wasting Disease Research at
the USGS-Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
Staff and Students
Principle Investigator
Research Staff
- Dr. Chris Jennelle, Research Associate (potential dynamics
of interspecific CWD transmission and scavenger
community ecology)
- Dr. Erik E. Osnas, Assistant Scientist (spatial analysis of
CWD prevalence and transmission)
Students
- Cherrie
A. Nolden, M.S. candidate (inter-specific
transmission of CWD)
- Stacie Robinson,
Ph.D. candidate (epidemiology, genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial
modeling of CWD)
- Dan Storm, Ph.D.
candidate (assessment of landscape factors and deer density associated
with patterns of CWD infection across Wisconsin and Illinois)
Former Students and Research
Staff
- Dan Grear, M.S. thesis: Chronic wasting disease
infection patterns in female white-tailed deer related to demographics,
genetic relationships, and spatial proximity of infected deer in southern Wisconsin
- Abbey
Thompson, M.S. thesis: The role of supplemental feeding in infectious
disease transmission in white-tailed deer
- Dr. Julie A. Blanchong, Research Associate (spatial analysis,
genetic tools to understand the role of deer ecology to CWD transmission
and distribution)
- Dr. Damien Joly,
Research Associate (CWD epidemiology)
- Dr. Andrew McClung, Research Associate
(epidemiological modeling)
- Dr.
Gideon Wasserberg, Research Associate
(epidemiological modeling)
- Michael Spelman, undergraduate (potential role of scraping
behavior in CWD transmission)
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