peopleKurt Vandegrift
Graduate Student
Email: kjv1@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-5895
Fax:
Office: 513A Mueller Laboratory
Research
My project deals with the ecology of infectious diseases and parasites in small mammals. I am investigating:
- Are there key hosts for parasites and disease in the population?
- Who are those key hosts and why?
- How do key hosts affect disease spread?
- Are there hotspots or hot times for transmission?
- How do the communities of parasites associated with a host species interact with each other?
- How do parasites influence disease susceptibility?