Fisheries and Wildlife

Jen Owen

Fish & Wildlife Disease Ecology and Conservation Medicine

                Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

                Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences

 

Research Interests

My  research focuses on the role migrating birds play in the spread of zoonotic disease, particularly arthropod-borne viruses. I am interested in how environmental and physiological stressors impacts an animal’s ability to mount effective immune responses and how that impacts both their susceptibility to disease and their ability to serve as competent reservoirs and dispersal vehicles for zoonotic pathogens.

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Dr. Jen Owen
Department of Fisheries & Wildlife
Michigan State University

13 Natural Resources

East Lansing, MI 48824

Contact Information

Phone: (517) 353-5135
Fax: (517) 432-1699
E-mail: owenj@msu.edu

Rose Lake Management Area, Michigan