Marm Kilpatrick , Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York
 
E-mail: kilpatrick@conservationmedicine.org
Telephone: 212.380.4471
Cell: 845.596.7474
Fax: 212.380.4475

Marm Kilpatrick received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin , Madison . His dissertation focused on the impacts of avian malaria on the demography of native Hawaiian birds and management strategies for facilitating the evolution of resistance to malaria. His research interests include combining models and field work to examine questions in disease ecology, population regulation, and conservation biology.

Current projects include 1) determining the drivers of spatial and temporal variation in West Nile virus transmission, 2) developing models for the risk of transmission of Brucella abortus (the causative agent of Brucellosis) from bison and elk to cattle in Yellowstone National park, and 3) risk assessments for the introduction of pathogens, including West Nile virus and Avian Influenza, to new areas. Some of this work has since been published in Nature, PLoS Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Ecology, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Ecohealth, and Evolutionary Ecology Research.

Publications

Kilpatrick, A.M., Meola, M.A., Moudy, R.M., Kramer, L.D. Temperature, viral genetics, and the transmission of West Nile virus by Culex pipiens mosquitoes. 2008. PLoS Pathogens 4(6) PDF

Gomez, A., A.M. Kilpatrick, L.D. Kramer, A.P. Dupuis, M.J. Jones, S.J. Goetz, P.P. Marra, P. Daszak, A.A. Aguirre. 2008. Land use and West Nile virus seroprevalence in wild mammals Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(6): 962-5 PDF

Zhang, J.-s.., P. Daszak, H.-l. Huang, G.-y. Yang, A.M. Kilpatrick, S.-y. Zhang. 2008. Parasite Threat to Panda Conservation Ecohealth 5(1) 6-9 PDF

Newman, S.H., S. Wright, K., Converse, A.M. Kilpatrick, A.A. Chmura, N. Patel, E. Lammers, P. Daszak. 2007. Disease associated aquatic bird mortality as an indicator of changing marine ecosystem health: Analysis of a 30-year USA mortality database Marine Ecosystem-Progress Series 352: 299-309 PDF

Douglas, K.O., A.M. Kilpatrick, P.N. Levett, M.C. Lavoie. 2007. A quantitative risk assessment of West Nile virus introduction into Barbados West Indian Medical Journal 56(5) 394-7 Kilpatrick, A.M., LaDeau, S.L., Marra, P.P. 2007 The ecology and impact of West Nile virus in the Western Hemishpere. Auk 124(4):1121–1136 PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., L.D. Kramer, M.J. Jones, P.P. Marra, P. Daszak, D.M. Fonseca. 2007. Genetic influences on mosquito feeding behavior and the emergence of zoonotic pathogens Am J Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 77(4) 667-671 PDF

LaDeau, S.L., A.M. Kilpatrick, P.P. Marra. 2007. West Nile virus emergence and large-scale declines of North American bird populations. Nature (447) 710-713 PDF Suppl Information

Griffing, S.M., A.M. Kilpatrick, L. Clark, P.P. Marra. 2007. Mosquito landing rates on nesting American robins (Turdus migratorius). Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 7(3) 437-443 PDF

Daszak, P., J.H. Epstein, A.M. Kilpatrick, A.A. Aguirre, W.B. Karesh, A.A. Cunningham. 2007. Collaborative research approaches to the role of wildlife in zoonotic disease emergence. Pp. 463-475 in Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology Vol 315: Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission. Springer. PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., Mitchell, W.A., Porter, W.P., Currie, D. 2006. Testing a mechanistic hypothesis for the latitudinal gradient in mammalian species diversity. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8(2) 333-344. PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M. , Chmura, A.A., Gibbons, D.W., Fleischer, R.C. Marra, P.P., Daszak, P. 2006. Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103 (51) 19368-19373. PDF

Cohen, J.K., Kilpatrick, A.M., Kelly, R., Stroud, F., Paul, K., Wolf, F., Else, J.. 2007. A comparative analysis of the seroprevalence of West Nile virus in non-human primate populations as predicted by mosquito abundance at two national primate research centers. Comparative Medicine 57 (1) 115-119. PDF

Epstein, J.H., McKee, J., Shaw, P., Hicks, V., Micalizzi, G., Daszak, P., Kilpatrick, A.M., Kaufman, G. 2006. The Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) as a reservoir of zoonotic and livestock pathogens. Ecohealth 3(4) 290-8. PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., Daszak, P., Jones, M.J. , Marra, P.P., Kramer, L.D. 2006. Host heterogeneity dominates West Nile virus transmission. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 273 (1599) 2327-2333. PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., Kramer L.D., Jones, M.J., Marra, P.P., Daszak, P. 2006. West Nile virus epidemics in North America are driven by shifts in mosquito feeding behavior PLoS Biology 4(4) 606-610 PDF
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Kilpatrick, A.M., Daszak, P., Goodman, S.J., Rogg, H., Kramer, L.D., Cedeno, V., Cunningham, A.A. 2006. Predicting pathogen introduction: West Nile virus spread to Galápagos Conservation Biology 20(4): 1224-1231. PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., D. LaPointe, C.T. Atkinson, B.L. Woodworth, J.K. Lease, M.E. Reiter, K. Gross. 2006. Effects of chronic avian malaria ( Plasmodium relictum ) infection on the reproductive success of Hawaii Amakihi (Hemignathus virens ). Auk 123(3): 764-774. PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M. 2006. Facilitating the evolution of resistance to avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) in Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 128(4) 475-485 PDF

Daszak, P., Scott, D.E., Kilpatrick, A.M., Faggioni, C., Gibbons, J.W., Porter, D.. 2005. Amphibian population declines at the Savannah River Site are linked to climate, not chytridiomycosis. Ecology 86(12) 3232-7 PDF

Wolfe, N.D., Daszak, P., Kilpatrick, A.M. and Burke, D.S. 2005. Bushmeat Hunting, Deforestation and Predicting Zoonotic Emergence Emerging Infectious Diseases 11(12) 1822-7 PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M. , Kramer, L.D., Campbell, S., Alleyne, E.O., Dobson, A.P., Daszak, P. 2005. West Nile Virus Risk Assessment and the Bridge Vector Paradigm. Emerging Infectious Diseases 11(3) 425-9 PDF

Leinwand, I., Kilpatrick, A.M., Cole, N., Jones, C.G., Daszak, P. 2005. Drivers of Coccidial Infection in Endemic and Introduced Lizards of Mauritius. Journal of Parasitology 91 (5): 1103-8 PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., Gluzberg, Y., Burgett, J. and Daszak, P. 2004. A quantitative risk assessment of the pathways by which West Nile virus could reach Hawaii. Ecohealth 1(2) 205-209 PDF

Marra, P.P., Griffing, S., Caffrey, C.L., Kilpatrick, A.M., McLean, R.G., Brand, C., Saito, E., Dupuis, A.P., Kramer, L.D., Novak, R. 2004. West Nile Virus and Wildlife. Bioscience 54(5) 393-402 PDF

Patz, J.A., Daszak, P., Tabor, G.M., Aguirre, A.A., Pearl, M., Epstein, J., Wolfe, N.D., Kilpatrick A.M., Foufopoulos, J., Molyneux, D., Bradley, D.J. & Members of the Working Group Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence. 2004. Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and disease emergence. Environmental Health Perspectives 112 (10): 1092-1098 PDF

Hanselmann, R., Rodríguez, A., Lampo, M., Fajardo-Ramos, L., Aguirre, A. A., Kilpatrick, A.M., Rodríguez, J.P. and Daszak, P. 2004. Presence of an emerging pathogen of amphibians in introduced bullfrogs Rana catesbeiana in Venezuela. Biological Conservation 120: 115-119 PDF

Daszak, P., Tabor, G.M., Kilpatrick, A.M., Epstein, J., Plowright, R. 2004. Conservation medicine and a new agenda for emerging diseases. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1026: 1-11 PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M., Ives, A.R.. 2003. Species interactions can explain Taylor's power law for ecological time series. Nature 422: 65-68 PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M. 2003. The impact of thermoregulatory costs on foraging behaviour: a test with American Crows (Corvus brachyrhyncho s) and eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensi s) . Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 781-786 PDF

Kilpatrick, A.M. 2002. Variation in growth of Brown-headed cowbird ( Molothrus ater ) nestlings and energetic impacts on their host parents. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 145-153 PDF