Daniel Streicker

Daniel Streicker received his Ph.D. from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia in 2011 and worked previously as an Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Streicker is currently a Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow. The research of Dr. Streicekr focuses on the viruses that carried and spread by vampire bats, including rabies and influenza. The Streicker Group is interested in the control of bat rabies, and in projects funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, the Streicker Group is combining longitudinal surveillance of vampire bat colonies, bat population genetics, viral genomics and epidemiological time series data to improve anticipation of virus outbreaks and develop a scientific basis for interventions. Dr. Streicker also studies the cross-species transmission of bat viruses, especially influenza, while they aim to test the hypothesis that vampire bats accumulate viruses from other species, making them potential conduits to emergence in livestock and human. Parallel research projects of the group encompass the search for a prediction tool for the pathogen spread, in which they are testing whether comparisons of viral genetic diversity inferred from metagenomic sequencing can provide a high-resolution host network to anticipate the spread.

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Vampire Bat Rabies 0 Epidemiology 0 Ecology 0 Metagenomics 0 Virology 0 Metagenomic tracking of viral emergence between bats and livestock 0 Spatial epidemiology 0 ecology and control of vampire bat rabies 0 Bat Influenza 0 Vampite Bat Population Genetics 0

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  1. Benavides JA, Velasco-Villa A, Godino LC, et al. Abortive vampire bat rabies infections in Peruvian peridomestic livestock. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020;14(6):e0008194. Published 2020 Jun 29. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008194

  2. Becker DJ, Speer KA, Brown AM, et al. Ecological and evolutionary drivers of haemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community. Mol Ecol. 2020;29(8):1534-1549. doi:10.1111/mec.15422

  3. Brock Fenton M, Streicker DG, Racey PA, et al. Knowledge gaps about rabies transmission from vampire bats to humans. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020;4(4):517-518. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1144-3

  4. Streicker DG, Fallas González SL, Luconi G, Barrientos RG, Leon B. Phylodynamics reveals extinction-recolonization dynamics underpin apparently endemic vampire bat rabies in Costa Rica. Proc Biol Sci. 2019;286(1912):20191527. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1527

  5. Babayan SA, Orton RJ, Streicker DG. Predicting reservoir hosts and arthropod vectors from evolutionary signatures in RNA virus genomes. Science. 2018;362(6414):577-580. doi:10.1126/science.aap9072


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