Lauren Lock
@laurenlock.bsky.social
PhD candidate @OU_Biology 🧬 budding wildlife disease ecologist 🦇 USWNT and NWSL enthusiast ⚽️ Pennsylvanian
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We are hiring a technician in the Simonis Lab at Auburn U! This is a two-year position with responsibilities for scouting and performing bat capture surveys at field sites (e.g. private and public lands, highway culverts).
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are hiring a technician in the Simonis Lab at Auburn U! This is a two-year position with responsibilities for scouting and performing bat capture surveys at field sites (e.g. private and public lands, highway culverts).
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
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I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇
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Opportunities
We are currently recruiting graduate student(s) interested in seasonal pathogen dynamics and bat health throughout various field sites and/or highway culverts throughout Alabama. You can find out...
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May 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I am recruiting graduate students for Spring 2026 in my Lab at Auburn University. Please share broadly🦇
simonislab.weebly.com/opportunitie...
linking to 🧪 and 🦊
simonislab.weebly.com/opportunitie...
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If you're at #SICB2025 today come by my talk on the effects of habitat fragmentation on pathogens in vampire bats!
don’t miss the DEDE Best Student Presentation session this morning at #SICB2025, 10:15-12 in A704, featuring dissertation work by @laurenlock.bsky.social and Caroline Cummings
January 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If you're at #SICB2025 today come by my talk on the effects of habitat fragmentation on pathogens in vampire bats!
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i'm excited to finally see this out in mSphere. we worked with @teagueo.bsky.social and @batconintl.bsky.social to characterize novel blood bacteria of Mexican free-tailed bats in the US and showcase seasonal infection in our longitudinally sampled Oklahoma colony.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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December 11, 2024 at 2:16 PM
i'm excited to finally see this out in mSphere. we worked with @teagueo.bsky.social and @batconintl.bsky.social to characterize novel blood bacteria of Mexican free-tailed bats in the US and showcase seasonal infection in our longitudinally sampled Oklahoma colony.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Excited to share our preprint where we estimate relationships for and fur total mercury (THg) to use in initial contaminant risk screening of biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@danjbecker.bsky.social @meaganallira.bsky.social #KristinDyer #BretDemory #KimberleeWhitmore
#MattChumchal-- an #OU #TCU collab🧪🦊
@danjbecker.bsky.social @meaganallira.bsky.social #KristinDyer #BretDemory #KimberleeWhitmore
#MattChumchal-- an #OU #TCU collab🧪🦊
April 2, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Excited to share our preprint where we estimate relationships for and fur total mercury (THg) to use in initial contaminant risk screening of biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@danjbecker.bsky.social @meaganallira.bsky.social #KristinDyer #BretDemory #KimberleeWhitmore
#MattChumchal-- an #OU #TCU collab🧪🦊
@danjbecker.bsky.social @meaganallira.bsky.social #KristinDyer #BretDemory #KimberleeWhitmore
#MattChumchal-- an #OU #TCU collab🧪🦊
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Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.08.577874v1
Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.08.577874v1
Bacterial pathogens remain poorly characterized in bats, especially in North America. We describe no
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February 9, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.08.577874v1
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🦇🌳Please check out our new meta-analysis (with
@danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence.
@ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
@danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence.
@ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus preva...
Habitat degradation can increase zoonotic disease risks by altering infection dynamics in wildlife and increasing wildlife–human interactions. Bats are an important taxonomic group to consider these...
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December 20, 2023 at 2:21 PM
🦇🌳Please check out our new meta-analysis (with
@danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence.
@ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
@danjbecker.bsky.social and Lauren Lock)! Our paper investigates associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence.
@ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/ecog...