Linda J. (Perry) Demma, Ph.D.

Currently: Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road MS G-13, Atlanta GA 30322 USA

History:

PhD 2003, Laboratories of Silvija Staprans, Mark Feinberg, & John M. Logsdon Jr., Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution Program, Emory University, Emory Vaccine Research Center at Yerkes, 954 N. Gatewood Road, Atlanta GA USA 30329,

BS, Biological Sciences, Cornell University and Undergraduate Research with Nelson Hairston, Jr.

Publications:

Demma, L.J., T.H. Vanderford, J. M. Logsdon, Jr., M.B. Feinberg and S.I. Staprans. 2006. Evolution of the uniquely adaptable lentiviral envelope in a natural reservoir host. Retrovirology 3:19. [PDF]

Demma, L.J., J. M. Logsdon, Jr., T.H. Vanderford, M.B. Feinberg and S.I. Staprans. 2005. SIVsm quasispecies adaptation to a new simian host. Public Library of Science , Pathogens 1(1): e3. [PDF]

Demma L.J., Holman RC, McQuiston JH, Krebs JW, Swerdlow DL. 2005. Epidemiology of human ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis in the United States, 2001-2002. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 73(2):400-9.

Demma L.J., Traeger MS, Nicholson WL, Paddock CD, Blau DM, Eremeeva ME, Dasch GA, Levin ML, Singleton J Jr, Zaki SR, Cheek JE, Swerdlow DL, McQuiston JH. 2005. Rocky Mountain spotted fever from an unexpected tick vector in Arizona. N Engl J Med. 353(6):587-94.

Durand AM, Kuartei S, Togamae I, Sengebau M, Demma L., Nicholson W, O'Leary M. 2004. Scrub typhus in the Republic of Palau, Micronesia. Emerg Infect Dis. 10(10):1838-40. Erratum in: Emerg Infect Dis. 10(11):2059.

Duffy, M. A., L. J. Perry, C. M. Kearns, L. J. Weider and N. G. Hairston, Jr. Paleogenetic evidence for a past invasion of Onondaga Lake, New York, by exotic Daphnia curvirostris using mtDNA from dormant eggs. Limnology and Oceanography 45:1409-1414.

Hairston, N. G., Jr., L. J. Perry, A. J. Bohonak, M. Q. Fellows, C. M. Kearns, and D. R. Enstgrom. Population biology of a failed invasion: Paleolimnology of Daphnia exilis in upstate New York. Limnology and Oceanography 44(3):477-486.

Published abstracts:

Perry, L. J. and L. A. Real. 1999. Temporal dynamics of ecotype and pathotype resistance during a plant pathogen epidemic. Poster presentation, American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, and Society of Systematic Biologists, June 22-26, 1999, Madison, WI.

 

 

 

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