Alynn Martin is an Assistant Professor of wildlife disease ecology and epidemiology at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at 91AV;M - Kingsville. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from John Carroll University (2011) and a Master of Science degree in Biology from Grand Valley State University (2014). She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Zoology from the School of Natural Resources at the University of Tasmania (2019). Her research focuses on questions regarding disease impacts at the individual scale (e.g., changes in behavior, metabolism, movement) and at the population scale (e.g., demographic shifts, prevalence, outbreak dynamics, and management). Dr. Martin uses a combination of methods in field surveillance, genomics, and statistical modeling to address wildlife disease issues, and has focused on sarcoptic mange in wildlife, mycoplasma in bighorn sheep, brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and tickborne illness (Lyme disease). Dr. Martin joined the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Institute in January of 2023 and her current research focuses on vector-borne disease, diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface, and zoonotic disease. Current projects include (i) investigating fire as a management tool for ticks and tickborne illness, (ii) disease transmission dynamics among wild carnivores, (iii) parasites and their influence on game species (e.g., toxoplasmosis in white-tailed deer and helminths in quail), (iv) transmission dynamics of chronic wasting disease, and (v) disease dynamics and management in vulnerable populations.
