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.

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

  • May 2019: Congrats to our graduating students: Jimmy Elliott (MS, Forest Resources), Carly Dickson (BS Zoology), Julia Cleary (BS, Animal and Veterinary Science, AVS), Jake Bowker (BS, AVS), and Kristie Pinto (BS, AVS)!
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  • April 2019: Congratulations to Jimmy Elliott for successfully defending his MS thesis! Way to go!
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  • Februrary 2019: Congrats to Olivia Choi for passing her PhD comps and advancing to candidacy!
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  • Check out the UMaine News coverage of our recently awarded NSF-EEID project here.​
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     For more, please see Lab News 

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