Karen Vanderwolf

Experience

• –present
  PhD Candidate, Trent University
• 2011–2020
  Research associate, New Brunswick Museum
• 2011–2016
  Bat Conservation Specialist, Canadian Wildlife Federation
• 2011–2011
  Conservation Intern, Nature Conservancy of Canada
• 2008–2008
  Research and Teaching Intern, University of Maine at Fort Kent
• 2006–2007
  Assistant Resource Manager, Ontario Parks
• 2000–2002
  Research assistant, Western University

Education

• 2012 
  University of New Brunswick, MSc Biology
• 2007 
  Western University, BSc Biology

Publications

• 2021
  Skin fungal assemblages of bats vary based on susceptibility to white-nose syndrome, The ISME Journal
• 2021
  Mycobiome traits associated with disease tolerance predict many western North American bat species will be susceptible to white-nose syndrome, Microbiology Spectrum
• 2021
  Landscape genetic connectivity and evidence for recombination in the North American population of the white-nose syndrome pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Journal of Fungi
• 2021
  Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white-nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America, Ecology and Evolution
• 2021
  Fungi associated with aeroponic roots in caves and mines of New Brunswick, Fungal Ecology
• 2020
  Penicillium diversity in Canadian bat caves, including a new species, P. speluncae, Fungal Systematics and Evolution
• 2019
  No change detected in culturable fungal assemblages on cave walls in Eastern Canada with the introduction of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Diversity
• 2018
  Growth media and incubation temperature alter the Pseudogymnoascus destructans transcriptome: implications in identifying virulence factors, Mycologia
• 2018
  Malassezia vespertilionis sp. nov.: a new cold-tolerant species of yeast isolated from bats, Persoonia
• 2018
  Geographic patterns of mercury bioaccumulation in bats across Canada: influence of atmospheric mercury deposition, Science of the Total Environment
• 2017
  Prelude to a panzootic: gene flow and continent-wide immunogenetic variation in northern Little Brown Myotis vulnerable to bat white nose syndrome, FACETS
• 2017
  Hibernacula water chemistry and implications for hibernating bats, Journal of Mammalogy
• 2017
  Fungus causing White-nose syndrome in bats accumulates genetic variability in North America with no sign of recombination, mSphere
• 2017
  Psychrotolerant Microfungi Associated with Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) in a White-nose Syndrome-positive Bat Hibernaculum in Eastern Canada, Canadian Field-Naturalist
• 2016
  Detecting viable Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Ascomycota: Pseudeurotiaceae) from walls of bat hibernacula: effect of culture-media, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
• 2016
  Fungi associated with hibernating bats in New Brunswick caves: the genus Leuconeurospora, Botany
• 2016
  Lack of cave-associated mammals influences the fungal assemblages of insular solution caves in eastern Canada, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
• 2016
  Molecular detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Ascomycota: Pseudeurotiaceae) on big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) over-wintering in buildings, Journal of Wildlife Diseases
• 2016
  Using a novel partitivirus in Pseudogymnoascus destructans to understand the epidemiology of white-nose syndrome, PLoS Pathogens
• 2016
  . Fungi on white-nose infected bats (Myotis spp.) in Eastern Canada show no decline in diversity associated with Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Ascomycota: Pseudeurotiaceae), International Journal of Speleology
• 2016
  Ectomycota associated with arthropods from bat hibernacula in eastern Canada, with particular reference to Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Insects
• 2015
  Fungi associated with over-wintering Tricolored bats, Perimyotis subflavus, in a white-nose syndrome region of Eastern Canada, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
• 2014
  Clonal Expansion of the Pseudogymnoascus destructans Genotype in North America Is Accompanied by Significant Variation in Phenotypic Expression, PLoS ONE
• 2014
  Earthworm (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) occurrences from Anticosti Island (Quebec), Canada, Megadrilogica
• 2013
  Ectomycota associated with hibernating cave bats in eastern Canada prior to the emergence of white-nose syndrome, Northeastern Naturalist
• 2013
  A world review of fungi, yeasts and slime molds in caves, International Journal of Speleology
• 2012
  Biogeographic and conservation significance of the occurrence of the Canadian endemic Maritime Shrew (Sorex maritimensis) in northern New Brunswick, Northeastern Naturalist
• 2012
  Bat populations and cave microclimate prior to and at the onset of white-nose syndrome in New Brunswick, Canadian Field-Naturalist
• 2011
  Consumption of bats (Myotis sp) by raccoons (Procyon lotor) during an outbreak of white-nose syndrome in New Brunswick: implications for bat mortality estimates, Canadian Field-Naturalist