Dr. Kate Langwig
@ecoevo_kel
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asst professor @virginia_tech | disease ecologist | theory + data| heterogeneity in (vaccine) susc. and infectiousness|emerging and endemic wildlife disease
Joined October 2016
We loved having @AnisabelBento visit Virginia Tech! Great talk on early detection of pathogen variants and leveraging global data to predict local emergence. So much inspiring science and conversation!.
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This was a very collaborative and integrative project with Joseph Hoyt @hoytlab1, James Weger-Lucarelli, and Carla Finkielstein @FralinLifeSci (n/n).
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We detected SARS2 in the Virginia opossum (a marsupial very distantly related to humans) with novel viral mutations that are expected to increase binding affinity to the .human ACE2 receptor (3/n).
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We sampled wildlife for across a human use gradient and found that prior exposure increased with human activity in sites. We also found infections in several new wildlife species and evidence of prior exposure in >40% of individuals including skunks, raccoons, and squirrels (2/n).
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New preprint led by @VT_Biology postdoc Amanda Goldberg. We find evidence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure and infection in wildlife communities (1/n)
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RT @AnisabelBento: Our disease-economy tradeoffs paper is out! @NatureComms We develop a coupled epi-econ model of….
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RT @WhiteheadLabVT: Very special evening having dinner with Rosemary and Peter Grant. In case you were unclear about how legendary these hu….
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RT @DiseaseEcology: What is an "acceptable" # of COVID-19 deaths in US?.Lots of folks suggesting that post-omicron we can pretend we're pos….
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Our paper is out AOP in Ecology Letters. @Alex_Grimaudo did an amazing job with a complicated experiment. See thread below. We find that resistance is modified by environmental conditions enabling a narrow niche for bats to persist with white-nose syndrome.
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We are currently searching for a postdoc to work on white-nose syndrome and join our team. Feel free to contact me with questions. Please share widely!
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RT @HawleyDana: Need a postdoc? Interested in host heterogeneity & its impact on disease ecology & evolution? @ecoevo_kel & I are hiring &….
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RT @HawleyDana: Looking for a postdoc in infectious disease ecology & evolution? Interested & comfortable with experimental work w/ wild bi….
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Several (many?) months ago I remember seeing a thread from ecology Twitter on positive experiences taking prelim written exams during their PhD. Can anyone direct me toward this thread? Would also love to hear about written exam formats that work well (according to students).
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RT @florian_krammer: 1) So, this morning I promised a little tweetorial about variants and here we go. This will be from a vaccine/antibody….
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RT @NatureRevMicro: Ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome on bats. In this Review, Hoyt and colleagues describe the ecology of P. dest….
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RT @hoytlab1: Our review on the ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome is out in Nature Reviews Microbiology. We explore pathogen sprea….
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This suggests that although refugia may protect some individuals, the presence of warm sites with high disease impacts may continue to threaten metapopulation persistence. (3/3).
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We find that high mortality from white-nose syndrome in warm sites shifted the regional bat population toward cooler habitats. In spite of this, bats affected by disease continued to prefer warm sites where survival was lower. (2/3).
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Our new paper exploring habitat preferences during and after pathogen invasion is out in Nature Communications. (1/3) @DiseaseEcology @hoytlab1 @parasiteecology .
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RT @sarahcobey: Lately I've seen people say that deviations from "ethical queues" for vaccination are NBD, that we should focus on getting….
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