The majority of emerging diseases in humans come from wildlife. However, wildlife biorepositories – which include wildlife DNA and other biological materials – are largely absent from global responses to emerging infectious diseases.
This gap limits our ability to identify disease origins and wildlife hosts, as well as environmental associations that may contribute to disease in humans. Our program is helping solve this issue. We bring together experts and their biological materials across the Americas in an effort to build cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Our meeting topics are contributed by members and range from benefits sharing, pathogen surveillance, permitting and biodiversity informatics.
We meet from 11 a.m. to noon Mountain Time every Wednesday.
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Jocelyn Colella, PhD
Assistenzprofessor und Kurator für Säugetiere
Biodiversitätsinstitut der Universität von Kansas (USA)
Joseph Koch, PhD
Professor und Kurator für Säugetiere
Museum für Südwestliche Biologie, University of New Mexico (USA)
Guillermo D'Elia, PhD
Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften
Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, la Universidad Astral de Chile (Chile)
Maria Laura Martin, PhD
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas "Dr. Julio I Maiztegui" ANLIS Argentinien
Leiterin von Säugetiersammlungen und Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft
Museum für Zoologie, University of Michigan (USA)
Marcelo Weksler, PhD
Titularprofessor und Curador de Mamíferos
Museu Nacionale, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasilien)
Studierendenvertretungen
Lexi Frank – Universität von Michigan
Heather Skeen – Feldmuseum
