Nicole Gottdenker, DVM, PhD

 

Nicole Gottdenker, an associate professor in the Pathology Dept. at UGA received her BA in Biology from Colgate University, DVM from Tuskegee University, MS in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, and PhD from the Odum School of Ecology at UGA. She is board certified in anatomic pathology and is a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Pathology. Her laboratory integrates theoretical and applied ecology to study how anthropogenic environmental change (e.g. deforestation, reforestation, and climate change) impacts the ecology of wildlife diseases, including vector-borne zoonotic pathogens. She has worked for over 10 years in collaboration with the parasitology department at the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Panama on the ecology of Chagas disease and American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the context of environmental change.