R. Jory Brinkerhoff

Department of Biology, 28 Westhampton Way

University of Richmond

Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: 804-484-1592; Fax: 804-289-8233

EDUCATION

2008Ph. D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado

2002M.S., Zoology, North Carolina State University

1998B. S., Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, University of Illinois

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2011 - Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biology, University of Richmond

2008-2010Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine

2007, 2008Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado

2004-2006Research Assistant, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado

2003-2004Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado

2003Mammal Collections Technician, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina

2002Instructor, Health Sciences Department, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, North Carolina

2000-2002Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

1999Research Intern, Center for Shark Research, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida

1998Veterinary Assistant, Center for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Sanibel, Florida

1996-1998Research Technician, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Diuk-Wasser, M.A., A.G. Hoen, P. Cislo, R.J. Brinkerhoff, S.A. Hamer, M. Rowland,R.

Cortinas, G. Vourc’h, F. Melton, G.J. Hickling, J.I. Tsao, A.G. Barbour, U. Kitron,J. Piesman, and D. Fish. Revision in review. Lyme disease entomological risk map for the eastern United States. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

J.E. Childsand R.J.Brinkerhoff. In press. Environmentand Vector-Borne

DiseasesInR. Friis, Ed., The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health, Praeger Publishers. (Invited submission)

Brinkerhoff, R.J., C.M. Folsom-O’Keefe, H.M. Streby, S.J. Bent, K. Tsao, and M.A.

Diuk-Wasser. 2011. Regional variation in tick parasitism on migrating North American songbirds: implications for the spread of the Lyme pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. Journal of Medical Entomology 48: 422-428.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., A.P. Martin, R.T. Jones, and S.K. Collinge. 2011. Population genetic

structure of the prairie dog flea and plague vector, Oropsyllahirsuta. Parasitology138: 71-79.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., S.J. Bent, C.M. Folsom-O’Keefe, A.G. Hoen, K. Tsao, A. Barbour, and M.A.

Diuk-Wasser. 2010. Genotypic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi detected in Ixodes scapularis larvae collected from North American songbirds. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76: 8265-8268.

Brinkerhoff, R.J.,H. Kabeya, K. Inoue, Y. Bai, and S. Maruyama. 2010. Detection of

multipleBartonella species in digestive and reproductive tissues of fleas collected from sympatric mammals. The ISME Journal 4: 955-958.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., S.K. Collinge, C. Ray, and K.L. Gage. 2010. Rodent and flea abundance

fail to predict plague epizootic in black-tailed prairie dogs. Vector-Borne and

Zoonotic Diseases 10: 47-52. (Invited Manuscript)

Brinkerhoff, R.J.,C. M. Folsom-O’Keefe, K. Tsao, and M.A. Diuk-Wasser. 2011. Do birds

affect Lyme disease risk? Range expansion of the vector-borne pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 103-110.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., S.K. Collinge, Y. Bai, and C. Ray. 2009. Are carnivores universally good

sentinels of plague? Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 9: 491-497.

Brinkerhoff, R.J.,C. Ray, B. Thiagarajan, J.F. Cully, Jr., S.K. Collinge, B. Holmes and K.L Gage. 2008. Prairie dog presence affects disease vector occurrence on small rodents.

Ecography 31: 654-662.

Wilder, A.P., R.J. Eisen, S.J. Bearden, J.A. Montenieri, D.W. Tripp, R.J. Brinkerhoff, K.L.

Gage, and M.F. Antolin. 2008. Transmission efficiency of two flea species (Oropsyllatuberculatacynomuris and Oropsyllahirsuta) involved in plague epizootics among prairie dogs. Ecohealth 5: 205-212.

Bai, Y., M.Y. Kosoy, C. Ray, R.J. Brinkerhoff, and S.K. Collinge. 2008. Distribution and

dynamics of Bartonella infection in colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Microbial Ecology56: 373-382.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. 2008. Habitat-associated differences in flea assemblages of striped

skunks (Mephitismephitis). Comparative Parasitology, 75:127-131.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., A.B. Markeson, J.H. Knouft., K.L. Gage, and J.A. Montenieri. 2006.Abundance patterns of two Oropsylla [Ceratophyllidae: Siphonaptera] species on black- tailed prairie dog (Cynomysludovicianus) hosts. Journal of Vector Ecology 31:

355-363.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., N.M. Haddad and J.L. Orrock. 2005. Corridors and olfactory predator cues affect small mammal behavior. Journal of Mammalogy 86:662-669.

Orrock, J.L., B.J. Danielson and R.J. Brinkerhoff. 2004. Rodent foraging is affected by indirect, but not direct, cues of predation risk. Behavioral Ecology 15: 433-437.

Tewksbury, J.J., D.J. Levey, N.M. Haddad, S. Sargent, J.L. Orrock, A. Weldon, B.J. Danielson, J. Brinkerhoff, E.I. Damschen and P. Townsend. 2002. Corridors affect plants, animals and their interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:12923-12926.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Brinkerhoff, R.J. 2008. Mammal and flea occurrence in association with black-tailed prairie

dog (Cynomysludovicianus) colonies: implications for interspecific plague transmission. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. 2004. Are carnivores responsible for plague spread among prairie dogs?

Colorado Chapter of the Wildlife Society Newsletter, February 2005.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. 2002. Responses of prey to the presence of predators in a fragmented

habitatwith corridors. M.S. Thesis. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

INVITED PRESENTATIONSPROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Brinkerhoff, R.J. North American Songbirds and the Eco-epidemiology of Tick-borne Diseases. Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. North American Songbirds and the Eco-epidemiology of Lyme Disease. Department of Biology, Bard College, 2010.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Host-specialization and the maintenance and transmission of vector-borne zoonotic pathogens. Department of Biology, University of Richmond, 2009.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. The importance of vector ecology in the transmission and maintenance of vector-borne zoonotic pathogens. Graduate Medical School, Duke-National University of Singapore, 2009.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Abiotic and biotic factors associated with sylvatic plague in North American grassland ecosystems. Yale School of Public Health, 2009.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Plague ecology in Colorado grassland communities. Michigan State University/Kellogg Biological Station, 2009.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., S.K. Collinge, C. Ray, and K. L. Gage. Rodent assemblages change following, but not prior to, plague epizootics in black-tailed prairie dogs. Symposium of the Ecology of Plague and its Effects on Wildlife, Ft. Collins, Colorado, 2008.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Use of vector occurrence data to infer pathogen transmission and movement. Invited presentation, School of Public Health, Yale University, 2008.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. S.K. Collinge, A.P. Martin, and C. Ray. Mammal and flea occurrence in association with black-tailed prairie dog colonies: implications for interspecific plague transmission. Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Japan, 2007.

CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONSPROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Brinkerhoff, R.J., C. M. Folsom-O’Keefe, S.J. Bent, K. Tsao, D. Fish, and M.A. Diuk-Wasser. Genotypic diversity of Borreliaburgdorferi(sensustricto) detected in Ixodes scapularis larvae collected from North American songbirds. 12th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-Borne Diseases, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

D. Fish, P. Cislo, R. Brinkerhoff, C. Folsom-O’Keefe, and M.A. Diuk-Wasser. A National Lyme Disease Risk Map for the US: Creation and Application. 12th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-Borne Diseases, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., S.J. Bent, K. Tsao, D. Fish, and M.A. Diuk-Wasser. Genotypic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi detected in Ixodes scapularis larvae collected from North American songbirds. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, 2010.

Tsao, K., R.J. Brinkerhoff, D. Fish, and M.A. Diuk-Wasser. Heterogeneity in daily tick acquisition rates. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, 2010.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., C.M. Folsom, S.J. Bent, K. Tsao, and M.A. Diuk-Wasser. Regional variation in tick parasitism on birds: implications for the spread of the Lyme pathogen, Borrelia burgdorferi. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, 2009.

Colman, R.E., R.J. Brinkerhoff, C. Ray, P. Keim, S.K. Collinge, and D.M. Wagner. Plague: Out of the foothills. Joint meeting of the James H. Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man and the International Conference on Disease in Nature Communicable to Man, Fort Worth, Texas, 2009.

Colman, R.E., R.J. Brinkerhoff, C. Ray, P. Keim, S.K. Collinge, and D.M. Wagner. Plague in urban prairie dog colonies. Symposium on the Ecology of Plague and its Effects on Wildlife, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2008. (Poster)

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Dead fleas do tell tales: using vector occurrence data to infer pathogen transmission and movement. Departmental symposium, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, 2007.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Inferring interspecific pathogen transmission from vector occurrence data. Invited presentation, National Institute of Infectious Disease, Tokyo, Japan, 2007.

Collinge, S.K., R.J. Brinkerhoff, and P. Coppolillo. Landscape structure and disease ecology in Tanzanian grasslands. Annual meeting of Society for Conservation Biology, Cape Town, South Africa, 2007.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., S.K. Collinge, J.F. Cully Jr., K.L. Gage, M. Y. Kosoy, A.P. Martin and B. Holmes. Region-wide occurrence patterns of disease hosts and vectors in western USA grasslands. NSF/NIH Emerging Infectious Diseases principal investigators meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006. (Poster)

Brinkerhoff, R.J. and S.K. Collinge. Movement of plague among prairie dog colonies: the role of mammalian carnivores. Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Springfield, Missouri, 2005.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. and S.K. Collinge. Movement of plague among prairie dog colonies: the role of mammalian carnivores. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spring Research Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, 2005.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Prairie dogs, fleas, and plague migration from foothills to prairie. Great Plains Grassland Conference, Ft. Collins, Colorado, 2005.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Prairie dogs, fleas, and plague migration from foothills to prairie. Annual meeting of the Colorado Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2005.

Brinkerhoff, R.J. Flea assemblagesof carnivores: implications for plague transmission. Annual research symposium of the University of Colorado Museum, 2005.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., N.M. Haddad, and J.L. Orrock. Corridors and olfactory predator cues affect small mammal foraging behavior. Departmental brown bag series, University of Colorado, 2003.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., N.M. Haddad and J.L. Orrock. Responses of prey to the presence of predators in a fragmented landscape with corridors. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona, 2002.

Orrock, J.L., Levey, D., Danielson, D, and R.J. Brinkerhoff. Seed dispersal, seed predation, and the distribution of plants in early-successional habitats. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona, 2002.

Brinkerhoff, R.J., N.M. Haddad and J.L. Orrock. Responses of prey to the presence of predators in a fragmented landscape with corridors. Zoology Graduate Student Research Symposium, North Carolina State University, 2002.

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

2009-2010NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship, $85,424

2008Teaching Excellence Award, EBIO Department, University of Colorado, $200

2007CU Graduate Student Research and Creative Work Award (First Place), $1000

2007Rozella Smith Fellowship, EBIO Department, University of Colorado, $12,000

2007NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship, ~$11,000

2006Boulder County Nature Association Research Grant, $600

2005American Society of Mammalogists, Grant-in-aid of Research, $1500

2005Edna Bailey Sussman Internship Award, $4500

2005Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department Small Grant, $5000

2004-2006University of Colorado, EBIO Departmental Grant, $3500 (3 awards)

2004, 2005William H. Burt Award, University of Colorado Museum, $3000 (2 awards)

2004, 2006Beverly Sears Award, $1500 (2 awards)

2003Colorado Chapter of the Wildlife Society Small Grant, $1000

2001Graduate Research Assistantship, North Carolina State University

2000, 2001USDA Forest Service Research Grant (Co-investigator), $30,000 per year

1996, 1997Dean’s List, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Manuscript Review:

ActaTropica, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Midland Naturalist, Animal Conservation, Annals of Epidemiology, Australian Journal of Zoology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Conservation Genetics, Current Zoology, Ecological Applications(3), Ecological Research, Ecology Letters, Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology(3), Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Medical Entomology(3), Journal of Tropical Medicine, Journal of Vector Ecology(2), Journal of Wildlife Management, Journal of Zoology,Parasitology International, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases(2), Restoration Ecology, Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases(3), and Western North American Naturalist

Other Service Activities:

  • Guest lecturer for: Conservation Ecology (U Colorado), Community Ecology (U Colorado), Disease Ecology (Yale)
  • Served as a mentor for three MPH students working on independent research projects at Yale School of Public Health
  • Senior Essay reader for Elyse LeeVan, Yale College Environmental Studies Program
  • Service as graduate student representative for EBIOecology faculty search, 2005/2006
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Colloquium Committee, 2005/2006
  • Incoming graduate student mentor, 2004-2006
  • Peer-reviewer, EBIO graduate student grant-writing workshop, 2007
  • University of Colorado Museum research seminar series, 2005
  • EBIO brown bag seminar series participant, 2003, 2007
  • Field trip leader for Consultative Group for Biological Diversity, 2006 annual meeting
  • Served with the Scientist in the Classroom organization, Raleigh, North Carolina, giving talks and education programs to elementary school children(2000-2001)
  • Volunteer at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine on the Turtle Rescue Team providing treatment and husbandry for injured turtles(1999-2001)
  • Served as a field crew leader in 2004 working with 2-4 undergraduates trapping and collecting blood and parasite samples from prairie dogs and other small mammals
  • Supervised 1 undergraduate in 2001 on a small mammal population ecology project at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

POPULAR MEDIA

Recent research highlighted in:

  • EcoTone, the official blog of the Ecological Society of America, 2009
  • Boston (Massachusetts) Globe, 2009
  • Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, 2009
  • Yale Daily News, 2009
  • Yale Alumni Magazine, 2009
  • New Haven (Connecticut) Register, 2009
  • Danbury (Connecticut) News-Times, 2009
  • Roanoke (Virginia) Times, 2010
  • Portland (Maine) Press Herald, 2011