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WILDLIFE GENOMICS & DISEASE ECOLOGY RESEARCH: HOLLY ERNEST DVM PHD
Enhancing wildlife conservation, population health, and management through collaborative research, education, and public outreach in the disciplines of genomics, landscape genetics, and disease ecology.
Wildlife Genomics, Population Health, and Disease Ecology 
We use ecological tools including whole genome analysis for wild animals and their disease pathogens, analysis of population genetics, epidemiology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at landscape-level, to understand how diseases affect wildlife populations. Special programs include Migration Genomics, Wildlife Genomic Health, and Hummingbird Health Program.
Ruminants
- Pronghorn, Bighorn Sheep, Deer and others.
- Landscape-level studies, population genomics, genetics for migration ecology, and disease ecology.
- Collaborative research, toward conserving and managing populations across migration corridors and habitats
Birds
- Hummingbird Health Program.
- Hummingbird Conservation Genomics and Disease Ecology
- Raptors: Great Gray Owls and others.
- Genetic diversity, population structure, small threatened populations, migration ecology.
- Identifying and monitoring threats to bird populations.
- Citizen science.
Carnivores
- Mountain lion, Bear, Sea Otter, and others.
- Non-invasive and trace DNA, population size estimates, bottlenecks, source-sink dynamics.
- Molecular kinship reconstruction, genetic diversity, genomics, landscape genetics.
- Assessing impacts of disease on populations
