Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Biography
Research Interests:
wildlife disease ecology, zoonotic disease transmission, genomic approaches to studying disease transmission patterns, epidemiology
Background:
- BS-Wildlife Ecology & English-University of Wisconsin Madison
- MS-Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences-South Dakota State University
Current Projects:
- Identifying gastropod species that serve as important intermediate hosts in transmission of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis from white-tailed deer to moose through metabarcoding of moose feces.
- Detecting landscape features and forest management practices associated with increased brainworm transmission through landscape genomic and population genetic analyses of Parelaphostrongylus tenuis.
Publications:
- Garwood, T., Lehman, C., Walsh, D., Cassirer, E.F., Besser, T., Jenks, J. Removal of chronic Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae carrier ewes eliminates pneumonia in a bighorn sheep population. Ecology and Evolution, Accepted.
- Garwood, T., Ziobro, R., Keene, K., Waller, G., and Pauli, J. Diet, habitat use, and size of an urban population of Coyotes obtained non-invasively. Urban Naturalist 5: 1-8.