Samantha M. Wisely

Congratulations, Dr. An-Chi Cheng for her important contribution to understanding deer health! 🧪🌏👩🏻‍🔬BVDV is a pathogen mainly of cattle that causes abortions in white-tailed deer. Dr. Cheng is a critical member of our pathogen diagnostics team. Go An-Chi!

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Exogenous xenosurveillance allows us to sample peripheral blood of wildlife hosts using mosquitoes. We can then identify hosts using barcodes and screen for host pathogens.

Just published today! Our group used mosquitoes as flying syringes to conduct surveillance on pathogens of turkeys, white-tailed deer and invasive wild pigs. Not only could we detect DNA and RNA viruses, we could estimate prevalence! 🌎🧪👩‍🔬
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Science in action: bringing the black-footed ferret back from the brink - Gene Drive Network When I first began working on black-footed ferrets over twenty years ago, the species was beginning to recover from what was once thought to be its final chapter.

I recently partnered with the Gene Drive Network to create a blog about how biotechnology helps conservation of the black-footed ferret. Here it is: 👩🏻‍🔬🌏🧪

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Catching up with Emily DeRuyter, virus investigator and One Health Ph.D. student » College of Public Health & Health Professions » University of Florida She is the first author on two recent papers describing the discovery of previously undocumented viruses.

Great post about PhD candidate, @emderuyter-ramirez.bsky.social

She is an essential team member of the UF Cervidae Health Research Initiative

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Messy Lola Young · This Wasn't Meant For You Anyway · Song · 2024

I've always had a soft spot for songs that celebrate women being messy and complicated and not always nice. Here's my latest fav!

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I'm attending a conference in Budapest on global energy challenges sponsored by Hungarian Fulbright associations. The topic was interesting but the star was the Roccoco crown molding and chandeliers!

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

The Macquarie PhD scholarship on our new Climate Economy project is now open - working with me, @garethbryant.bsky.social Sophie Weber, @clairerhiannon.bsky.social & Svenja Keele. We'll explore how climate change remakes our political economy. Topic negotiable.

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Wonderful new 5-year postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at the University of Cambridge on #Biodiversity:

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Greetings from my office at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where I am currently on a Fulbright Fellowhip studying red deer health 🧪🌏👩🏻‍🔬🦌🦌🦌

Opportunities We are currently recruiting graduate student(s) interested in seasonal pathogen dynamics and bat health throughout various field sites and/or highway culverts throughout Alabama. You can find out...

I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇

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This figure highlights the diversity of avoidance across different species in response to pathogens and parasites. (A) Rainbow trout avoid waters with high concentrations of trematode cercariae, reducing exposure to these parasites. (B) Healthy Caribbean spiny lobsters avoid sharing dens with those infected by viruses, preventing the spread of infection within their communities. (C,D) Avoidance underlies many human public health measures such as social distancing, to minimize the risk of infectious disease contagion. (E) Oystercatchers avoid eating the largest cockles, which are likely to be infested with parasitic helminths. (F,G) Bees and ants (eusocial insects) exhibit complex social behaviours to minimize infection risks. Bees isolate or remove infected individuals from the colony, while ants restructure their social networks to reduce contact with fungal-infected foragers. (H) Sheep avoid food and water sources contaminated with feces, reducing the risk of ingesting parasites that may be present in such environments. (I,J) Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. These model organisms illustrate how detected pathogenic cues can modify behaviour and provide insights into the neurological integration of sensory perception and behavioural response to pathogens. Plants, like Saline latifolia (K), can avoid infection too, for example by flowering for shorter periods to reduce contact with fungal spores transmitted by pollinators. Root compounds of some sorghum (L) lines are associated with reduced germination of parasitic Striga seeds, demonstrating chemical avoidance strategies. (M) Crickets avoid detection by parasitic flies through the selection of variants that cannot sing, disrupting the ability of parasites to locate hosts acoustically. (N) Spongy moths show variability in larval behaviour to avoid virus-contaminated foliage. (O) Lemurs avoid water sources that have an elevated risk of fecal contamination.

This primer on infection avoidance was incredibly fun to write with @cr-amo.bsky.social and Mandy Gibson. We cover its taxonomic breadth, mechanisms and evolution, and its importance across fields as diverse as public health, conservation, and agriculture. 🧪
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Contact between soft tick vectors of African swine fever virus and invasive wild pigs in the southeastern USA - Parasites & Vectors Background African swine fever virus is a transboundary pathogen of high economic impact to the global pork industry. Florida has multiple factors that contribute to the high risk of introduction of A...

Check out this cool note from @profwisely.bsky.social Lab reporting that soft ticks feed on feral swine in Florida link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First day at the European Vertebrate Management Conference. Excellent talks, great conversations! 🌏🧪👩🏻‍🔬
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Frontiers | Whole genome characterization of Torque teno sus virus 1 (TTSuV1) in wild and domestic pigs: insights into genetic classification, host differentiation, and intra-host variation BackgroundTorque teno sus virus 1 (TTSuV1), a member of the Anelloviridae family, is highly prevalent in swine populations and exhibits substantial genetic d...

Today my lab published a manuscript that provides insights about Torqu teno sus virus, a cute little 2800bp virus of pigs! THM: this virus can be used in wildlife ecoepideiology and biosecurity 🧪🌏👩🏻‍🔬
doi.org/10.3389/fmic...

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some Zen to the timeline.

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I just had our comms people post directly to blue sky!

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Happy International Women's Day!
Here's to women in science!🧪🌎👩🏻‍🔬

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Perhaps my favorite grrl band of all time. They are feminist heroes who truly live by their words. A Russian collective of punk musicians, members have been imprisoned, beat, and exiled. They continue, undeterred. Rock on, sisters!💀💓💪

An alternative to ggplot? Hurray!👯‍♀️

Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats - Nature Ecology & Evolution A 43-year dataset of rodents in the Hu region of China reveals how urbanization-induced changes to land-use configuration affect rodent community composition, including benefitting striped field mice,...

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Single large or several small patches? A 43 year dataset demonstrates that land sparing decreased rodent diversity locally while increasing the vector for and prevalence of Hanta virus. THM: the scale of conservation actions (both in time and space) matter! 🌎🧪🐀🐀🐀

22 members of the UF Cervidae Health Research Initiative pose for a group photo

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The UF Cervidae Health Research Initiative held its annual symposium yesterday. We are ecologists, veterinarians, geographers, virologists, and entomologists who use a One Health approach to study deer! 🌎🧪👩🏻‍🔬

UF Research sent this memo today. It came from the White House Office of Management and Budget and was sent to all federal agency executives yesterday. 🧪🌎👩‍🔬

Barracuda Heart · Little Queen · Song · 1977

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Grrl rock Tues: Sisters Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart deliver heavy metal vocals, galloping riffs and in your face lyrics. Barracuda is a #metoo anthem aimed at all the producers and promoters who treated them as less than because they were women rockers. Go get em!

Prof Samantha Wisely from University of Florida here. I am a wildlife disease ecologist and would love to be added to this starter pack

Mapping hotspots of zoonotic pathogen emergence: an integrated model-based and participatory-based approach An increase in pandemics of zoonotic origin has led to a growing interest in using statistical prediction to identify hotspots of zoonotic emergence. …

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This study compared two approaches to mapping pathogen hotspots: 1) a top-down global predictive model, 2) a bottom-up expert panel with local knowledge. Most instructive were the mismatches between methods. THM: both approaches have additive value 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎

Okay I started a wildlife health starter pack! Please share and let me know if you want to be added!

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Hi! Dr. Sam Wisely here. I'm a prof at UF studying wildlife disease. Would you please add me to your starter pack? Thanks for creating it!