Abbreviated CV
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate, Pennsylvania State University and Griffith University. 2012-2014.
David H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University. 2009 – 2011.
Ph.D. Ecology, University of California, Davis. 2007.
M.S. Epidemiology, University of California, Davis. 2005.
B.V.Sc. Hons I (Bachelor of Veterinary Science with First Class Honors), University of Sydney. 1997. (DVM equivalent)
CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Montana State University.
Adjunct Faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University.
Adjunct Research Fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
HONORS
Coppoc One Health Lectureship, Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. 2019.
Nominated for Director’s Award by DARPA Biological Technologies Office. 2018.
RR Parker Memorial Lecture, 73rd International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man. 2018.
Kopriva Lectureship, Montana State University. 2017.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Washington-Idaho-Montana-Utah (WIMU) Regional Program in Veterinary Medicine. 2017.
DARPA Young Faculty Award. 2016.
David H. Smith Fellowship in Conservation Research. 2009.
Veterinary Graduate Academic Program Fellowship in Epidemiology. 2002.
Fulbright Graduate Fellowship. 2001.
Centenary Scholarship. 2001.
First Class Honors. 1997.
J.D. Stewart Prize in Veterinary Science. 1997.
Lonsdale Prize for Clinical Studies. 1996.
Bryant Grainger Scholarship. 1992.
SCIENCE LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE (2020 onwards)
National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC ERE). Oversees environmental research across all NSF Directorates. 2020-present.
NSF subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC ERE) – how NSF can develop programs relevant to preventing and responding to pandemics. 2020-present.
Covid-19 and Protected Areas Task Force, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). 2020-present.
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), member. 2020-present.
Steering Committee on Bat One Health, U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). 2018-present.
Wildlife Scientific Advisory Board, Morris Animal Foundation. 2018-present.
Scientific Advisory Board, Veterinary Initiative for Endangered Species (VIEW). 2016-present.
Science Philanthropy Alliance. Infectious Disease Working Group (to identify science priorities for overcoming COVID-19 in virology, immunology, epidemiology, zoonotic diseases, and public health). 2020.
Expert assistance on COVID for various local community efforts such as the Board of Health and local Bridger Ski Foundation. 2020.
Montana University System COVID planning committee for testing and epidemiological measures for reopening. Wrote epidemiological plans and prioritization strategy for campus testing and led epidemiological modeling to guide campus reopening. 2020.
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SELECTED INVITED TALKS, PLENARIES, AND CHAIRS (2017 - present)
University of Glasgow (and USAID STOP spillover group). 2021.
Plenary: The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (>200 State Legislators). 2021.
US Embassy in Manila, Southeast Asia Embassy Science Fellows Webinar (>700 viewers). 2021.
National Science Foundation Webinar “Environmental and Human Health: Research Priorities”, Presentation of the white paper to Program Officers and Directors at NSF. 2021.
USAID Global Health and Science and Practice: Technical Exchange. 2021.
Emory University Emerging pandemics speaker series. 2021.
Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. 2021.
University of Idaho Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) and the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB). 2021.
Whyte Museum Speaker Series, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Canada. 2021.
Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, UK. 2021.
UCLA, Department of Ecology and Evolution. 2021.
MSU 994-Calling, research history lecture. 2021.
MSU Alumni Association, Fireside chat / Panel Discussion on Research Response to COVID-19. 2021.
MSU Honors College: Bat viruses and preventing the next pandemic. 2020.
MSU Panelist: Key Take Away and Lessons-learned from Successful Applied Research Programs at MSU. 2020.
Plenary: Global Landscapes Forum (World Bank and UN Environment), COVID & Landscape Immunology session organized by the World Bank (with Brooklin Hunt, undergraduate researcher in our lab). 2020.
Plenary: Indiana University, Environmental Resilience Institute, fall symposium. 2020.
Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine department seminar. 2020.
American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Annual meeting session on henipaviruses. 2020.
University of British Columbia, Biodiversity Research Center department seminar. 2020.
MSU Initiative for Science, Technology, Ethics & Society Community Forum with David Quammen: Spillover: Understanding the origins of pandemics. 2020.
CLEAN 2020 Summit thought leaders to better understand control of virus transmission in the built environment. 2020.
World Bank: webinar “Preventing the Next Outbreak - Land Management Approaches to Zoonotic Disease Risk Reduction” to the Global Environmental Team. 2020.
Plenary: Systemics, Biogeography & Evolution International Meeting. 2020.
Session Chair: American Society for Virology session on reservoirs and viruses. 2020.
Wildlife Trust of India and Friends of Elephants, India (by Zoom > 100 participants). 2020.
National Science Foundation: Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education. One of three speakers on new research directions needed to respond to COVID-19. 2020.
Caltech, Stanford, UCSF Pandemic group. 2020.
Pandemic Predication and Forecasting Science and Technology Working Group from the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Predicting the Next Pandemic Initiative, White House. 2020.
ICDDR,B Bangladesh, International Public Health Research Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2020.
Coppoc One Health lectureship, Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. 2019.
Keynote: Rocky Mountain Virology Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado. 2019.
Beyond the standard: Non-model vertebrates in biomedicine, Berlin, Germany.2019.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana. 2019.
Chief Veterinary Officer’s forum, Australian Government, Canberra, Australia. 2019.
SessionChair: Infectious diseases of bats; Joint Asian Society of Conservation Medicine and Wildlife Disease Association meeting, Bali, Indonesia, 2018.
Keynote: 73rd International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2018.
Duke University Program in Ecology, One Health Symposium. 2018.
Café Scientifique, Public Lecture, Bozeman, Montana. 2018.
Kopriva Lecture, Montana State University. 2018.
Stanford, Department of Biology. 2017.
Department of Biology, Universidad de la República, Montevideo Uruguay. 2017.
Department of Medicine, Universidad de la República, Montevideo Uruguay. 2017.
Bat Infectious Diseases Symposium. 2017.
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases meeting. 2017.
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State. 2017.
10x10 Research Roadshow, MSU. 2017.
Wild Sheep Foundation conference. 2017.