Research/Areas of Interest
Emerging Infectious Disease, Comparative Pathology and Genetics, Virology, Host/Pathogen Interactions, Evolutionary Immunology, Disease Ecology, Animal Models of Infectious Disease, Vaccine and Diagnostic Development, Surveillance, and Veterinary and Human Public Health.
Advisors
Jonathan Runstadler, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Amanda J. Martinot, D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D., DACVP
Selected Honors and Awards
Honos Civicus, Tufts University, Jonathon A. Tisch College of Civic Life (2022).
Exceptional Service Award for Faculty and Staff Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine (2019).
Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar, Rochester Institute of Technology Research Scholar. (2016).
Research Scholar, RIT Gosnell School of Life Sciences (2016).
Baldwin Award, RIT Gosnell School of Life Sciences (2016).
Education
Ph.D., Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, (current)
D.V.M., Tufts University, 2022
B.Sc., (Hons), Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2016
Selected Publications and Presentations
Puryear, W, Stone, J et al. “Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Outbreak in New England Seals, United States. ” Emerging infectious diseases, 2023 Apr, vol. 29(4), pp. 786-791, doi:10.3201/eid2904.221538.
Sawatzki, K, Stone, J,et al. “Host Barriers to SARS-CoV-2 Demonstrated by Ferrets in a High-Exposure Domestic Setting.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 Apr, vol. 118, no. 18, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025601118. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.
Yoon, C, Stone, J,et al. “Quantitative Assessment of Human Donor Corneal Endothelium with Gabor Domain Optical Coherence Microscopy.” Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2019 Aug, vol. 24, no. 08, SPIE, pp. 1–0, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jbo.24.8.085001. Accessed 9 Oct. 2024.
“Comparative pathology of highly pathogenic avian influenza in naturally infected New England Wildlife”, Poster, Annual CEIRR Meeting (2024).
“HPAI in a Bald Eagle Talk”, Northeast Veterinary Pathology Conference, (2024).