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Our host Cat Vendl is talking all things Australian wildlife health with wildlife biologist Jane Hall. Jane is the project officer at the Australian Registry of Wildlife Health at Taronga Zoo and a PhD candidate at Griffith University.
In her many years with the Registry, she has worked with all creatures big and small, from the tiniest marsupials to the giants of the sea, the humpback whales. Her work took her on many trips to one of her favorite places on Earth, Christmas Island, where she has studied the health of the Christmas Island flying foxes.
On the side, Jane investigates the impact of disease and pollution on New Zealand fur seals for her PhD.
Links
Jane's research profile at Griffith University
Jane's profile with the Australian registry of Wildlife Health
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This week on WDA's Wildlife Health Talks podcast, host Dr Cat Vendl immerses herself and our listeners in an interview with Dr Helena Costa on her project 'Whale Exhale'. Helena studies the viruses in the blow of humpback whales that visit the coastline of Norway for the annual herring run.
A PhD student at Nord University in Bodø, Norway, it's a far cry from Helena's homeland of Portugal.
Links:
Helena's research gate profile
Helena's parapoxvirus paper
WhaleExhale's X account
Article written about project Whale Exhale
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Our host Cat Vendl chats with WDA's own vice president Richard Kock. Richard has lived almost a life time of promoting wildlife health in Africa, Central Asia and the UK. Born in Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe), Richard worked in Kenya for many years. He has seen the devastating consequences of colonialism to wildlife conservation first hand and has worked hard to counteract them.
Listen in to Richard's story!
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Feel free to email communications(at)wildlifedisease.org or catharinavendl(at)gmail.com with a short summary of your research story.
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Tigers, leopards and now one-horned rhinos. Dr Martin Gilbert studies them all. He is a wildlife veterinarian, epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Practice at Cornell University, US. Originally from Scotland, he has investigated infectious diseases and mysterious mass die-offs all over Asia. It was him and his colleagues who discovered that it was the administration of Diclofenac to livestock that killed millions of vultures in India in the early 2000s.
Listen in to Martin’s story!
Links:
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Our host, Dr Cat Vendl chats with yet another winner of the 2024 BioOne Ambassador awards, Dr Sarah Wright. Sarah studied an aspect of the immune system of South American sea lions. She is based in Illinois in the US and is the Associate Editor for two veterinary journals and the co-host of the podcast Veterinary Vertex.
Listen in to Sarah’s story!
Links
Watch Sarah’s BioOne Ambassador award video
Sarah’s paper the video is based on
Sarah’s podcast veterinary vortex
Sarah’s LinkedIn profile
Learn more about the Punta San Juan Program
Check out the website of the AVMA Journals Sarah is works for website
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Our host Dr Cat Vendl and her guest Dr Elis Fisk dive into the mystery of the bighorn sheep. Elis is a PhD candidate and anatomical pathology resident at Washington State University in the US and one of the winners of the 2024 BioOne Ambassador Award. In his video for the award, he showcases his impressive drawing skills and explains how he and his colleagues solved the mystery around the dying bighorn lambs.
Links:
"Draw and Learn: A Bighorn Sheep Mystery" – 2024 BioOne Ambassador Dr. Elis Fisk video: https://bioonepublishing.org/our-work/2024-ambassadors/dr-elis-fisk/
Elis' paper on the bighorn sheep mystery: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article-abstract/59/1/37/490259/ABORTION-AND-NEONATAL-MORTALITY-DUE-TO-TOXOPLASMA?redirectedFrom=fulltext
More about Elis' research: https://vetmed.wsu.edu/infectious-disease-and-immunology-fellow-to-continue-research-into-tick-disease/
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Our host Dr Cat Vendl chats with Dr Andrew Peters, past WDA president and Associate Professor in Wildlife Health and Pathology at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
A small revolution is about to take place within the WDA and hopefully the world of conference-ing as we know it. Andrew is the main organizer and creative head of the upcoming international WDA conference taking place in Canberra in early December this year. What is it that will make this conference so special, you might wonder. Well, sit back, relax and listen for yourself.
Check out the conference website to learn more here! Abstract submission closes on June 21!
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This year’s international WDA conference in Canberra, Australia, is preceded by a series of webinars to familiarize the WDA community with the concept behind the conference. This conference will differ quite a bit from the conventional. One of the new concepts introduced will be the special presentation style applied through-out the conference. There will be no complicated figures, equations, or data tables. Presenters will showcase their work via story telling or through the arts. Sounds easier said than done. This episode’s guest is here to help.
Nigel Sutton is the Director of Creative Learning and Audience Engagement of NDS Productions and the presenter of the pre-conference workshop on knowledge and storytelling, coming up on June 3.
Links
Pre-conference webinar series: https://wda2024.com.au/pre-event-webinar-series/
Sign up for Nigel's workshop:
Nigel's online profile: https://ndsproductions.com/nigelsutton/
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In this episode, we are diving into the fascinating world of the Egyptian rousette bat and its rich variety of pathogens. Our host Dr Cat Vendl chats with Dr. Jessica Elbert, a board-certified pathologist and PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Marburg virus is just one of many viruses that the Egyptian rousette bat carries. Jessica has been intrigued by the bats’ immune system and their special way of dealing with infectious pathogens. We also delve into Jessica’s amazing transition from living a life as a jazz vocalist in NYC to becoming a vet, pathologist, and lover of bat viruses. Not many people can say that!
Listen in to Jessica’s story on bats, Marburg virus and jazz.
Links
Wanna help Jessica to achieve her goal and use ViroCap for her PhD research? Check out her fundraiser here.
Wanna take a glimpse into Jessica’s previous life of jazz? Check out her playlist on Spotify here.
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In the aftermath of the Covid19 pandemic, the Convention on Migratory Species of the United Nations renewed their focus on One Health and migratory species. In the wake of this renewal, researchers from the University of Edinburgh in the UK wrote a review titled "Migratory Species and Health: A Review of Migration and Wildlife Disease Dynamics, and the Health of Migratory Species, Our host Cat Vendl is joined by two of the authors, Dr Marja Kipperman and Dr Ruth Cromie. Ruth and her colleague, Katie Beckmann, presented the review at the 14th Conference of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in February this year.
Links:
Resolution 12.6(Rev.COP14) on Wildlife Health and Migratory Species
Migratory Species and Health Review
Avian Influenza (Resolution 14.18)
Migratory Species and Health Review
Preventing Poisoning of Migratory Birds (Resolution 11.15(Rev.COP14))
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