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New findings published by biological sciences researchers University of Arkansas in the Journal of Animal Ecology demonstrated that male-biased pathology makes male canaries more likely to transmit disease than females Journal of Animal Ecology UArkansas Research news.uark.edu/articles/68063…

Check out two amazing posters at SICB on Wednesday and Thursday! Lorraine Perez 1/3 P1-88 🪰 Sila Inanoglu 1/4 P2-94 🐣 SICB Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology UConn Undergrad Research UConn EEB Department

If you’re going to #SICB2024 this year, come by and see me on Thursday, Jan. 4th at 1:45 (details in pics below)! I’m very excited to share the first talk with results from my dissertation! Feel free to grab me to chat about birds, behavior, or just to chat! #SICB

My sex-biased transmission study with DuRantLab is now in issue and on the cover of this month’s Journal of Animal Ecology 📸: Jeremy Cohen, PhD

I am SO proud of my two senior undergrads who placed 1st & tied for 3rd in the Simon_Codet-Boisse SICB Division of Ecoimmunology and Disease Ecology best poster competition. Both exceptional scientists & communicators! I am so lucky to work with them!💚 Lorraine Pérez-Beauchamp (left) & Sila Inanoglu (right) UConn EEB Department UConn Undergrad Research

New paper out!📄Using museum specimens, we demonstrate that cool-adapted, high-elevation tropical frogs historically had higher pathogen prevalence in abnormally warm years.🐸🌡️ Kudos to Tamilie História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros, doi.org/10.1016/j.peco… One Health Microbiome Center Penn State Biology CIDD

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Urban living can rescue Darwin's finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies🪰🐣 Global Change Biology Getting here feels so surreal. I'm SO proud of our team 😭 See thread for more info 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Lorraine Perez (recent undergrad from UConn Undergrad Research) had her first 1ST AUTHORED pub accepted! What an amazing experience as a mentor to be a part of her journey! Stay tuned for the publication from Biological Invasions. In the meantime, here's the pre-print: researchsquare.com/article/rs-333…

So proud of Lorraine Pérez (former UConn Undergrad Research, future grad students in the Knutie lab!)! Check out this important #Galapagos paper based on her U.S. National Science Foundation REU: Cigarette tobacco reduces the survival of an invasive parasite that affects Darwin’s finches 🚬🪰🪹 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The Reichert lab is hiring! Seeking a postdoc to work on NSF CAREER funded project on behavioral energetics of calling in treefrogs. See here for more info: apply.interfolio.com/143528 This has a fairly quick turnaround time so please apply and spread the word

Insects are helping us understand how animals use medicine. It was fun to write this review with great colleagues. Dalial Freitak Dr. Sheena Cotter Hauke Koch HMG Lattorff and others. Insects' essential role in understanding and broadening animal medicat... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I’m still accepting applications for this PhD on bat virus dynamics in Neotropical bats until end of April. Please RT!

⭐️PhD students⭐️ Anyone interested in applying for the 2025 NSF postdoc fellowship in biology on host-parasite interactions🪰🐣? Due date is 11/7! Happy to brainstorm now! Remote ok with the right project! Current topics of interest are on my website: knutielab.com/people.html

Backyard view in CT this evening!

So excited for this research with Ashley Love, PhD to be published in Molecular Ecology ! Congrats Ashley! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Super excited about our newest manuscript out now nature - “Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis”

Exciting news! 📣Join us at the TWS Annual Meeting for a workshop on wildlife ectoparasites and vector-borne diseases 🦌🐻🐦Perfect for wildlife professionals looking to enhance their ectoparasite knowledge and skills. Registration is open now! twsconference.org

The first paper from our ParasiteSquad Nest Parasite Community Science project is published! Understanding spatiotemporal effects of food supplementation on host–parasite interactions using community-based science Journal of Animal Ecology See below for summary⬇️ DM or email for a PDF!

This paper is just the start!!! We are continuing long term data collection and hope to have more super cool papers in the future. If you follow tree swallow or eastern bluebird nests in the eastern US, e-mail us! nestparasitestudy AT gmail [dot] com

Awesome Journal of Animal Ecology highlight by Erin Sauer 🐸 on our Nest Parasite Community Science Project ParasiteSquad 💚 Appropriate that it was published on Halloween👻🪰😂 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…