Faculty

Kurt Vandegrift

Associate Professor

Email kjv1@psu.edu

Overview

Disease ecology with an emphasis on the population dynamics of zoonotic parasites and reservoir hosts.

Centers & Institutes

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Google Scholar Profile

April 29, 2024

Virus Gone Wild

Researchers will collect samples from wildlife, including white-tailed deer, to test for SARS-CoV-2 with a goal of monitoring for potential spillback to humans. Credit: Greg Oberski, Wikipedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.

September 13, 2023

Testing 58 wildlife species for SARS-CoV-2 among goals of $4.5M USDA grant

February 16, 2022

COVID-19 May Be Widespread in Deer

February 10, 2022

Omicron-Infected Whitetail Deer Detected in New York

Researchers found that more than 80% of the white-tailed deer sampled in different parts of Iowa between December 2020 and January 2021 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Credit: Greg Oberski, Wikipedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.

November 03, 2021

Deer may be reservoir for SARS-CoV-2, study finds

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Image captured and colorized at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. IMAGE: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

September 29, 2021

New tool predicts changes that may make COVID variants more infectious

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