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 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

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  • Feb 2020: A PhD position is available, as part of a new One Health NSF graduate training program at UMaine, to study infectious disease in moose. See here for further details on the position and how to apply. Come join our lab!
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  • Oct 2019: Our paper is published in Scientific Reports on the pathways of bacterial spillover between wild and domestic Caprinae! See UMaine article on the paper.
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Kamath Lab
 University of Maine
216 Hitchner Hall
Orono, ME 04469
207-581-2935