WELCOME to the Kamath Lab

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 brucellosis in wildlife and livestock of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, pneumonia in wild and domestic sheep and goats, wild turkey disease ecology and evolution, anthrax in plains zebra 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.

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Bighorn sheep pneumonia

Wild turkey
​disease ecology

Brucellosis transmission dynamics in wildlife and livestock

​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

• Check out the UMaine News coverage of our recently awarded NSF-EEID project here.

• A Ph.D. position is available in the Kamath Lab, starting in 2019. Apply to come join us to study the evolutionary ecology of anthrax  in wild ungulate hosts of southern Africa!

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• 11/13/2018: Congrats to Jake Bowker -  awarded $1,100 from Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) to study Lyme disease prevalence in moose and winter ticks

 

• 11/12/2018: Shea and Kamath awarded $12,000 from MOHF to identify patterns of LPDV infection in wild turkeys in Maine and explore health impacts such as susceptibility to co-infection

 

• 11/6/2018: Check out two stories in the November edition of the UMaine Research - IMPACT newsletter, featuring grad student, Jimmy Elliott, and our​ work on tick-borne disease in moose!​

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• 11/3/2018: Pauline and Jimmy give talks for the One Health day event, "One Health Catalyst: Intersections and Connections" at the University of New England.

 

• August 2018: Kamath, with co-PIs Wendy Turner (U-Albany) and Henriette van Heerden (U of Pretoria, RSA), is awarded an NSF-EEID grant to study the evolutionary ecology of anthrax two endemic systems of southern Africa.​​

     For more, please see Lab News 

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