Wade D. Wilson
   
Office: 270 Castetter Hall Office Phone:(505) 277-2743
Lab: 265 Castetter Hall Lab Phone:(505) 277-3134
email: wwilson@unm.edu FAX: (505) 277-0304
 
   
   
   
     

Research Interests: Systematics, coevolution and natural history of parasites and their hosts.

EDUCATION:

University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM August 1998: Master of Science, Biology
Thesis Title: Systematic Analysis of the Rodent and Rabbit bot flies Cuterebra, Clark, 1815

Major Advisor: Donald W. Duszynski

University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM May 1995: Bachelor of Science, Biology
WORK EXPERIENCE:
April 2000 to Present University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM. Laboratory Technician

November 1998 to July 1999 Warwick Animal Hospital Warwick, RI. Veterinary Technician

August 1995 to December 1997 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM. Graduate Research Assistant: NSF Survey and Inventory Grant

June 1990 to May 1995 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM. Field and Laboratory Assistant: Sevilleta LTER Parasitology Project

May 1992 to August 1992 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM. Field Assistant: Sevilleta LTER mammal Crew

May 1991 to August 1991 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM. Field Asistant and REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Participant: Sevilleta LTER

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2001 Microbiology: Teaching Assistant

1999-2000 Belen High School and Elementry Substitute Teacher

1995 UNM Biology of Disease Vectors: Guest Lecture on Diptera

1995 UNM Marine Invertebrate Lab: Teaching Assistant

1991 UNM Invertebrate Zoology: Co-Teaching Assistant

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS:
1997 $400. UNM Biology Department and Biological Society of New Mexico. Travel Award for Participation in Tropical Biology Course

1996 $300. Graduate Research Allocations Committee (GRAC). Grant for Study of the Systematics and Ecology of Cuterebra

1996 $25. Honorable Mention. Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation. University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Fifth Annual Research Day

PUBLICATIONS:
Hertel, L.A., S.A. Stricker, F.P. Monroy, W.D. Wilson, and E.S. Loker. 1994. Biomphlaria glabrata hemolymph lectins: Binding to bacterial, mammalian erythrocytes, an to sporocysts and rediae of Echinostoma paraensei. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 64: 52-61.

Patrick, M.J. and W.D. Wilson. 1995. Parasites of the Abert's squirrel (Sciurus aberti) and Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) of New Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 81: 321-324.

Wilson, W.D., J.A. Hnida, and D.W. Duszynski. 1997. Parasites of Mammals on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico: Cuterebra austeni and C. neomexicana (Diptera: Oestridae) from Neotoma and Peromyscus (Rodentia Muridae), 1991-1994. Journal of Medical Entomology 34: 359-367.

Hnida, J.A., W.D. Wilson, and D.W. Duszynski. 1998. A new Eimeria species (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) infecting Onychomys species (Rodentia: Muridae) in New Mexico and Arizonae. Journal of Parasitology 84:1207-1209.

Wilson, W.D., J.A. Hnida, and J.N. Stuart. 1999. Trachemys gaigeae (Big Bend Slider). Endoparasites. Herpetological Review 30: 226.

Duszynski, D.W., W.D. Wilson, S.J. Upton, and N.D. Levine. 1999. Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in the Primates and the Scandentia. International Journal of Primatology 20:761-797.

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION:

Wilson, W.D. Morphometric Analyses of 19 Species within the genus Cuterebra (Diptera: Oestridae) Clark, 1815: the rodent and rabbit bot flies.

Wilson, W.D. Phylogenetic Analysis of the genus Cuterebra Diptera: Oestridae) Clark, 1815.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

Patrick, M.J., D.W. Duszynski, and W.D. Wilson. 1991. Ecological relationships between mesic and xeric habitats and coccidian diversity on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists. Lake Texoma, Oklahoma.

Wilson, W.D., M.J. Patrick, and D.W. Duszynski. 1992. Host-parasite population dynamics on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Wildlife Disease Association. El Paso, Texas.

Wilson, W.D. and D.W. Duszynski. 1993. The prevalence of the rodent bot fly (Cuterebra sp.) on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists. Lake Texoma, Oklahoma; UNM Biology DepartmentÕs research Day.

Wilson, W.D., J.A. Hnida, and D.W. Duszynski. 1994. Parasites of Mammals on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico: Cuterebra spp. (Diptera: Oestridae) from Neotoma and Peromyscus. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Parasitologists. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Wilson, W.D., J.A. Hnida, and D.W. Duszynski. 1996. Parasites of Mammals on the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico: Cuterebra austeni and C. neomexicana (Diptera: Oestridae) from Neotoma and Peromyscus (Rodentia: Muridae), 1991-1994. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Parasitologists. Tucson, Arizona.

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