Thomas R. Gillespie
Assistant Professor,
Pathobiology
Director, Initiative on Disease Emergence & Ecosystem Health
Professional Interests: Interactions
among anthropogenic environmental change; biodiversity; and the emergence
and ecology of infectious disease in humans, wildlife, and domestic animals.
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Selected Publications:
Salzer JS, Rwego IB, Goldberg TL, Kuhlenschmidt MS, and Gillespie TR. (2007) Giardia sp. and Cryptosporidium sp. infections in primates in fragmented and undisturbed forest in western Uganda. In press, Journal of Parasitology.
Kowaleswski M, and Gillespie TR. (2007) Ecological & anthropogenic influences on patterns of parasitism in free-ranging primates: a meta-analysis of the genus Alouatta. P. Garber, A. Estrada, J.C. Bicca-Marques, E. Heymann, amd K. Strier (eds.). South American Primates: Testing New Theories in the Study of Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. In press .
Chapman CA, Naughton-Treves L, Lawes MJ, Wasserman MD, and Gillespie TR. (2007) The conservation value of forest fragments: explanations for population decline of the colobus of western Uganda. In press, International Journal of Primatology.
Goldberg TL, Gillespie TR, et al. (2007) Patterns of gastrointestinal bacterial exchange between chimpanzees and humans involved in research and tourism in western Uganda. Biological Conservation. 135:527-533.
Gillespie TR. (2006) Non-invasive assessment of gastro-intestinal parasite infections in free-ranging primates. International Journal of Primatology. 27:1129-1143.
Gillespie TR and CA Chapman. (2006) Forest fragment attributes predict parasite infection dynamics in primate metapopulations. Conservation Biology. 20:441-448.
Goldberg TL, Gillespie TR, Singer RS (2006) Optimization of analytic parameters for inferring relationships among Esherichia coli isolates from repetitive-element PCR by maximizing correspondence with multilocus sequence typing data. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72 (9):6049-6052.
Chapman CA, Wasserman MD, Gillespie TR, et al. (2006) Do food availability, parasitism, and stress have synergistic effects on red colobus populations living in forest fragments? American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 131: 525-534.
Goldberg TL, Gillespie TR, IB Rwego and C Kaganzi. (2006) Killing of an owl ( Galucidium perlatum) by a red colobus monkey ( Piliocolobus tephrosceles ). American Journal of Primatology. 68(10): 1007-1011.
Chapman CA, MD Wasserman and Gillespie TR. (2006) Behavioural patterns of colobus in logged and unlogged forests: The conservation value of harvested forests. V. Reynolds, H. Notman, and N. Newton-Fisher (eds.). Primates of Western Uganda .
Chapman CA,Gilllespie TR, M
Speirs, T Holland and K Austad. (2006) Life on the edge: A comparison
of primate gastrointestinal parasites from forest edge and interior groups. American
Journal of Primatology. 68:397-409.
