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 every other Monday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (1 p.m. Mountain Time)
For more information, email the team.
Jocelyn Colella, PhD
Assistant Professor and Curator of Mammals
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute (USA)
Joseph Cook, PhD
Professor and Curator of Mammals
Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico (USA)
Guillermo D’Elia, PhD
Facultad de Ciencias
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 Argentina
Mammal Collections Manager and Assistant Research Scientist
Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (USA)
Marcelo Weksler, PhD
Professor Titular y Curador de Mamíferos
Museu Nacionale, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
