Isabella Cattadori

Royal Society Fellow and Visiting Senior Research Associate

Email: imc3@psu.edu

Phone:

Fax: 814-865-9131

Office: 417 Mueller Lab

Research

I'm interested in in population ecology and the factors responsible for temporal and spatial changes in animal populations. My current work focuses on:

Effects of host-parasite interactions on population dynamics
Characteristics of interspecific parasite interactions
Role of host heterogeneities and consequences for parasite dynamics
Immuno-epidemiology of host-parasite interactions
Evolution of myxoma virus

Study systems include

Myxoma virus in rabbits

Helminths in grouse, rabbits and mice

Ticks in mice

Selected publications

Cattadori IM, Boag B & Hudson PJ (2008). Parasite co-infection and interaction as drivers of host heterogeneity. Int. J. Parasitol. 38: 371-380

Cattadori IM, Albert R & Boag B (2007). Variation in host susceptibility and infectiousness generated by co-infection: the myxoma-Trichostrongylus retortaeformis case in wild rabbits. Interface 4: 831-840

Cattadori IM, Boag B, Bjørnstad ON, Cornell S & Hudson PJ (2005). Peak shift and epidemiology in a seasonal host-nematode system. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 272: 1163-1169

Cattadori IM, Haydon DT & Hudson PJ (2005). Parasites and climate synchronize red grouse populations. Nature, 433: 737-741.

Ferrari N, Cattadori IM, Nespereira J, Rizzoli A & Hudson PJ (2004). The role of host sex in parasite dynamics: field experiments on the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis. Ecol. Lett. 7: 88-94

Perkins SE, Cattadori IM, Tagliapietra V, Rizzoli AP & Hudson PJ (2003). Empirical evidence for key hosts in persistence of a tick-borne disease. Int. J. Parasitol. 33: 909-917

Faculty

Research Associates

Postdoctoral researchers

Graduate students

Ex-CIDD: now elsewhere

Isabella Cattadori

Research

Study systems include

Selected publications