Jasmine Childress

Position title: Faculty, Forest and Wildlife Ecology

Email: jnchildress@wisc.edu

Research Summary

The main goals of my research program are to 1) understand the processes that shape parasite diversity, abundance, and host associations across the individual, population, and community scales; 2) partner with management agencies to achieve shared conservation and environmental health goals; and 3) merge socio-cultural and ecological knowledge to better understand disease impacts on human and wildlife health. Our lab works in the local and regional freshwater systems of Dane County, WI, as well as on the island foxes of the California Channel Islands.