Major Collaborators

Sharon Deem is a wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist and is the Director of the Institute for Conservation Medicine at the Saint Louis Zoo. During her first three years with the Saint Louis Zoo, Dr. Deem lived and worked in the Galapagos Islands where she served as the veterinary epidemiologist for the Zoo’s WildCare Institute Center for Avian Health in the Galapagos. Since returning to St Louis in 2010, Dr. Deem has been conducting conservation medicine/One Health programs locally and globally, including leading the St. Louis Box Turtle Project. For more information, please visit her website.

Elizabeth Rayhel is a developmental biologist and full professor at Fontbonne University. She works to understand the relationships between environmental stressors and insect development, especially the development of wing structures.

Vanessa Ezenwa is a disease ecologist whose work focuses on understanding the relationship between TB, gastrointestinal worms, animal behavior, and the immune system in African buffalo, gazelle, and zebra. For more information about her work and lab, see http://ezenwalab.uga.edu/.

Hope Hollocher is a population geneticist who has focused on the understanding speciation of Neotropical Drosphila. With the recent collaboration with Dr. Fuentes, she has begun to expand her lab's research to include the examination of population structure of long-tailed macaques on both Bali, Indonesia, and Singapore. For more information about Hope and her previous work, see http://www.nd.edu/~biology/HopeHollocher.shtml.

Agustin Fuentes is a primatologist and behavioral anthropologist who has been working with primates throughout Southeast Asia for almost 20 years. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human and primate societies, cooperation, reproductive behavior and ecology, and issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions, disease and pathogen transfer. For more information about Agustin and his previous work, see http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/fuentes_agustin/index.shtml.