U of MN Associate Professor. Disease ecologist, world traveler, mom, and aspiring runner.
Joined February 2013
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2 Jul 2024
I’m looking for a postdoc (quantitative wildlife ecologist) to join our team to estimate white-tailed deer density and group size using camera traps (with implications for pathogen spread). hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/3618…
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2 May 2024
Which wild animals carry the COVID-19 virus? An ambitious U.S. project aims to find out | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
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4 Apr 2024
Exciting news for our former student & current #research technician, David Dayan! He is now an @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award winner! He is continuing his #WildlifeHealth #education at @umncbs EEB program w/ @MegganCraft Read about David: bit.ly/3xfOnOQ
ALT David working on research documents. #cornellvet
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Meggan Craft retweeted
6 Mar 2024
New in ME!
@J9Mistrick et al. use 16S @nanopore sequencing to investigate the role of agricultural landscapes as potential sources of putative bacterial pathogens in wild mice 🐁. @CedarCreekESR @ItascaBio @WileyEcolEvol
Read more: buff.ly/3TpQYOY
📷: @MegganCraft
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13 Feb 2024
I'm hiring a postdoc to work on epidemiological models at the human-deer interface in partnership with USDA APHIS. To apply: 1) visit humanresources.umn.edu/jobs, 2) “Apply for a job today”, and 3) search for Job ID 358672. @ESAdisease @ESAEcology
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16 Sep 2023
Reach out if you are interested in a writing a NSF-GRFP to conduct graduate work in my lab. We have exciting new fieldwork and modeling involving white-tailed deer movement/behavior and SARS-CoV-2 in the Twin Cities, MN. nsfgrfp.org/
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2 May 2023
We have successfully hired enough women faculty and department chairs over the last several years that we can begin a brand new initiative! Cutting staff positions by 60% because women are better at doing university service! (Don’t worry, we’ll keep all our associate deans).
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11 Apr 2023
Disease Ecology Research Technician opening in my lab to study resource-coinfection interactions! Collaborative field and lab work in Finland. 1 year position. Great research opportunity for postbac or MS. Apply here: tinyurl.com/5n94p8z2
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28 Nov 2022
Neat to comment on this cool study: A parasite makes wolves more likely to become pack leaders science.org/content/article/…
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19 Oct 2022
UMN EEB @umncbs is hiring at the Assistant Professor level in any area of ecology, evolution or behavior. Join us! @CedarCreekESR @MSP_LTER
@UMNIonE @BellMuseum @ItascaBio hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/3522…
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New Research: Apathogenic proxies for transmission dynamics of a fatal virus: Identifying drivers of transmission—especially of emerging pathogens—is a formidable challenge for proactive disease management efforts. While close social… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #VetScience
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6 Jun 2022
Looking to hire multiple postdocs: 1) Modeling a transmissible vaccine currently being used to control a chicken virus, 2) Experiments in a new model system (a nematode virus) to understand drivers of host jumps. I'll be at EEID the next few days, but also available by DM/email
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7 Jun 2022
Great to be at #EEID2022 with my peeps! Stop by poster session #2 to ask @J9Mistrick about vole spatial overlap networks (poster 33) and my poster on raccoon rabies and urbanization/ latitude (poster 53). Lab alum @LAWhite_Ecology is in group 1!
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26 May 2022
I just joined @momsdemand & @everytown to send an urgent message demanding our U.S. Senators take bold action by passing gun safety legislation. We cannot wait for another mass shooting. Send your message now >> bit.ly/3GgUxyE
A virus is spreading amongst Florida panthers... threatening an already small population. @UMNresearch EEB Prof @MegganCraft partnered up w/ colleagues to sort out the best way to limit impact conserve the species. Results in @JAppliedEcology. Read on > twin-cities.umn.edu/news-eve…
ALT Puma stars into the lens of the camera. Credit: Ron Magill
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26 Apr 2022
It is always fun to promote student research! #Endangered #FloridaPanther disease modeling study led by Marie Gilbertson is now out. #FeLV 📷 by Ron Magill
26 Apr 2022
Paradoxes and synergies: New #OA paper shows combining preventative and reactive disease interventions reduces disease-induced mortalities in a simulated #carnivore population & prevents unexpected negative impacts associated with inadequate vaccination👉 bit.ly/38nsXTA
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Negotiating a TT #faculty job offer or retention w/your chair or dean? It's a situation that systematically disadvantages women BIPOC faculty. Here's what I learned after years of @coacheproject research about what's REALLY on the table (potentially). A🧵1/n #AcademicTwitter
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19 Feb 2022
Pumas are solitary creatures. To learn more about them, Meggan Craft with @umncbs co-led a study on the pathway of a common virus in pumas and the effect of different wildlife management strategies. Learn more at: z.umn.edu/7i5s
ALT Adult male puma (Puma concolor) M87, originally tagged as a 28-day-old cub on the Uncompahgre Plateau study area, Colorado, USA. Credit: Kenneth A. Logan, Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
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Meggan Craft retweeted
31 Jan 2022
Commentary on our study on how hunting altered viral transmission dynamics in puma in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
@nfountainjones @ErickGagne1 @SKraberger @fieldgenomics @sdellicour @GuyBaele @XavierDidelot @MegganCraft @patitepui
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