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Our lab conducts research on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in animal populations. We work across a range of wildlife species, from birds to mammals, with a focus on host-pathogen evolution and infectious disease transmission dynamics at the wildlife-livestock interface. This work involves both field and laboratory components, and multidisciplinary analyses that integrate genetic information with ecological, immunological, and epidemiological data. Some of the current wildlife disease systems we are working on include pneumonia in wild and domestic sheep and goats, wild turkey disease ecology and evolution, anthrax in wild ungulates of southern Africa, and avian pathogens in migrating and resident birds along the Palearctic-African Flyway.

For more information about our current research projects, please view our Projects page.

Bighorn sheep pneumonia

Wild turkey
disease ecology

Anthrax ecology and evolution in ungulates of southern Africa

CONTACT

Dr. Pauline Kamath
Assistant Professor
University of Maine
School of Food & Agriculture
5735 Hitchner Hall, Rm 216
Orono, ME 04469

pauline.kamath [at] maine [dot] edu
207-581-2935 (Office)
@paulinekamath (Twitter)
Pauline's Google Scholar Page

NEWS

Nov 2021: Dr. Stephanie Shea successfully defended her PhD dissertation!
Nov 2021: Dr. Kamath was featured on the U Maine podcast discussing research being done on the moose-winter tick system in Maine.
Oct 2021: Carly Dickson successfully defended her master's thesis!
Oct 2021: two undergraduate scholars in the lab received U Maine Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship awards
Jan 2021: Check out National Geographic's story about our recently published paper in Molecular Ecology on the plains zebra genetics and strip pattern abnormalities!

For more, please see Lab News

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Kamath Lab
University of Maine
216 Hitchner Hall
Orono, ME 04469
207-581-2935

WILDLIFE DISEASE GENETICS Lab