Prof. Mark L. Wilson

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University of Michigan
Public Health
Epidemiology
ProfessorAppointed: 2004
University of Michigan
Literature, Science & the Arts
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
ProfessorAppointed: 2004
University of Michigan
Public Health
Global Health Program
DirectorAppointed: 2002
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Mailing Address

Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
109 Observatory
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (734) 936-0152
Fax: (734) 764-3192
wilsonml@umich.edu
http://www.sph.umich.edu/epid/faculty/wilsonml.html

Qualifications

Sc.D., Harvard University, 1985.
M.Sc., Harvard University, 1981.
B.A., Hiram College, Psychobiology, 1972.

Expertise and Research Interests

Population-level interactions among parasites, vertebrate reservoirs, and invertebrate or physical vectors influence transmission of many human pathogens. The temporal and spatial distributions of these infections are further complicated by abiotic influences. Our laboratory is addressing patterns and processes in disease ecology, particularly of human pathogens that are arthropod-borne or zoonotic. Studies of transmission dynamics, vector-host-parasite evolution, and environmental variation are directedat various viral, bacterial and protozoal diseases. The approach employs field studies, laboratory experiments and modeling, including use of satellite images, spatial analysis and GIS. Results are aimed at reducing risk of emerging diseases, designing ecologically-sound development, and understanding the impacts of global environmental change.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Climate Change, Climatology, Disease Prevention, Diseases and Disorders, Ecology, Entomology, Epidemiology, Geographic Information Systems, Global Change, Human Physiology, Infectious Diseases or Agents, Invertebrate Physiology, Parasitology, Pathogenesis, Pest Management, Public Health, Satellite Communication.

Additional Terms:

Climate Change, Climatology, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Disease, Ecology, Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Emerging Diseases, Entomology, Epidemiology, Health Statistics, Human Pathogens, Infectious Disease, Parasites, Public Health, Spatial Analysis.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Functional, Basic, Fluent)

Memberships

American Public Health Association
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Entomological Society of America
Global Health Council

Previous Positions

1991-1996, Assistant to Associate Professor, Yale University, School of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology
1987-1990, Research Scientist, Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal, Arbovirology and Vector Ecology
1985-1986, Research Associate, Harvard University, School of Public Health, Tropical Public Health

Funding Received

  • U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Application of Remotely-Sensed Data and Geographic Information System (GIS) to Onchocerciasis Risk Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa, UM ID# 98-2122, 9/18/98 to 12/31/98.
  • Yale University: Environmental Determinants of Leishmaniasis in Syria, UM ID# 00-0431, 9/1/99 to 3/31/00.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fellowship for Pia MacDonald, UM ID# 99-3658, 9/1/98 to 8/31/99.
  • U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Early Warning System Concept Design: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, UM ID# 98-0354, 8/5/97 to 2/23/98.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Fellowship for Kimberly Linblade, UM ID# 98-1261, 8/1/97 to 7/31/98.
  • U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Early Warning System for Dengue Fever, UM ID# 97-3532, 7/30/98 to 7/30/00.
  • BioMedware: Biostatistical Methods inEnvironmental Epidemiology, UM ID# 98-0252, 7/22/98 to 6/30/00.
  • U.S. HHS National Institutes of Health: Environmental Determinants of Ixodes Dammini Expansion, UM ID# 97-2814, 5/1/97 to 4/30/99.
  • Michigan Public Health Institute: Epidemiologic Training Fellowships at MPH I, UM ID# 01-3179, 5/1/01 to 9/30/01.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: EPA Fellowship for Pia MacDonald, UM ID# 97-2510, 3/1/97 to 12/31/97.
  • U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Early Warning System Concept Design: Dengue HemorraghicFever, UM ID# 97-2832, 2/24/97 to 2/23/98.
  • University of Illinois: Risk Assessment of the Expanding Distribution of Lyme Disease in the North-Central US, UM ID# 01-1042, 2/15/2001 to 2/14/2002.
  • Michigan, State of, Community Health Agencies: Multivariate Surveillance and Detection of Unusual Disease Patterns, UM ID# 04-5395, 10/01/2004 to 09/30/2005.
  • Michigan, State of, Community Health Agencies: Multivariate Surveillance and Detection of Unusual Disease Patterns, UM ID# 05-1636, 10/01/2004 to 09/30/2005.
  • Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health: Environmental Determinants of Highland Malaria in Kenya, UM ID# 03-1001, 07/01/2003 to 06/30/2005.
  • U.S. Commerce, Dept. of - Natl. Oceanic & Atmos. Admin.: Climate Variability and Influenza: New Approaches to Developing Public Health Early Warning, UM ID# 00-2655, 07/01/2002 to 06/30/2005.
  • "Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health": SocioEcological Impacts on Schistosomiasis Risk in Kenya, UM ID# 04-1109, 05/15/2004 to 07/31/2006.
  • Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health: Conference: Cancer in Arabs and Arab Americans, UM ID# 06-3868, 03/01/2006 to 10/01/2006.

Publications

  • Lindblade KA, Walker ED, Wilson ML, Early warning of malaria epidemics in African highlands using Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) indoor resting density, Journal of Medical Entomology, 37(5), 664-74, September 2000 Abstract
  • Lindblade KA, Walker ED, Onapa AW, Katungu J, Wilson ML, Land use change alters malaria transmission parameters by modifying temperature in a highland area of Uganda, Tropical Medicine and International Health, 5(4), 263-74, April 2000 Abstract
  • Labiano-Abello N, Canese J, Velazquez ME, Hawdon JM, Wilson ML, Hotez PJ, Epidemiology of hookworm infection in Itagua, Paraguay: a cross sectional study, Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 94(5), 583-6, 1999 Abstract
  • Lindblade KA, Walker ED, Onapa AW, Katungu J, Wilson ML, Highland malaria in Uganda: prospective analysis of an epidemic associated with El Nino, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 93(5), 480-7, 1999 Abstract
  • Alptekin D, Kasap M, Luleyap U, Kasap H, Aksoy S, Wilson ML, Sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) associated with epidemic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sanliurfa, Turkey, Journal of Medical Entomology, 36(3), 277-81, May 1999 Abstract
  • Baisley KJ, Watts DM, Munstermann LE, Wilson ML, Epidemiology of endemic Oropouche virus transmission in upper Amazonian Peru, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 59(5), 710-6, November 1998 Abstract
  • Gonzalez JP, Camicas JL, Cornet JP, Wilson ML, Biological and clinical responses of west African sheep to Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus experimental infection, Research in Virology, 149(6), 445-55, 1998 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Distribution and abundance of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in North America: ecological processes and spatial analysis, Journal of Medical Entomology, 35(4), 446-57, July 1998 Abstract
  • Van Andel AE, Magnarelli LA, Heimer R, Wilson ML, Development and duration of antibody response against Ehrlichia equi in horses, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 212(12), 1910-4, June 1998 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Bretsky PM, Cooper GH Jr, Egbertson SH, Van Kruiningen HJ, Cartter ML, Emergence of raccoon rabies in Connecticut, 1991-1994: spatial and temporal characteristics of animal infection and human contact, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 57(4), 457-63, October 1997 Abstract
  • IJdo JW, Zhang Y, Hodzic E, Magnarelli LA, Wilson ML, Telford SR 3rd, Barthold SW, Fikrig E, The early humoral response in human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 176(3), 687-92, September 1997 Abstract
  • Heimer R, Van Andel A, Wormser GP, Wilson ML, Propagation of granulocytic Ehrlichia spp. from human and equine sources in HL-60 cells induced to differentiate into functional granulocytes, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 35(4), 923-7, April 1997 Abstract
  • Bertrand MR, Wilson ML, Microhabitat-independent regional differences in survival of unfed Ixodes scapularis nymphs (Acari:Ixodidae) in Connecticut, Journal of Medical Entomology, 34(2), 167-72, March 1997 Abstract
  • Bertrand MR, Wilson ML, Microclimate-dependent survival of unfed adult Ixodes scapularis (Acari:Ixodidae) in nature: life cycle and study design implications, Journal of Medical Entomology, 33(4), 619-27, July 1996 Abstract
  • Morrison AC, Ferro C, Pardo R, Torres M, Wilson ML, Tesh RB, Nocturnal activity patterns of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) at an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Colombia, Journal of Medical Entomology, 32(5), 605-17, September 1995 Abstract
  • Ferro C, Morrison AC, Torres M, Pardo R, Wilson ML, Tesh RB, Age structure, blood-feeding behavior, and Leishmania chagasi infection in Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) at an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Colombia, Journal of Medical Entomology, 32(5), 618-29, September 1995 Abstract
  • Morrison AC, Ferro C, Pardo R, Torres M, Devlin B, Wilson ML, Tesh RB, Seasonal abundance of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) at an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Colombia, Journal of Medical Entomology, 32(4), 538-48, July 1995 Abstract
  • Ferro C, Morrison AC, Torres M, Pardo R, Wilson ML, Tesh RB, Species composition and relative abundance of sand flies of the genus Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae) at an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Colombia, Journal of Medical Entomology, 32(4), 527-37, July 1995 Abstract
  • Gonzalez JP, Wilson ML, Cornet JP, Camicas JL, Host-passage-induced phenotypic changes in crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Research in Virology, 146(2), 131-40, 1995 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Tesh RB, Fish D, Gerber MA, Magnarelli LA, Feder HM Jr, Shapiro ED, Evidence of hantavirus infection in rodents and human beings from Connecticut and New York, USA [letter], Lancet, 345(8951), 738, March 1995 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Rift Valley fever virus ecology and the epidemiology of disease emergence, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 740, 169-80, December 1994 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Developing paradigms to anticipate emerging diseases. Transmission cycles and a search for pattern, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 740, 418-22, December 1994 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Chapman LE, Hall DB, Dykstra EA, Ba K, Zeller HG, Traore-Lamizana M, Hervy JP, Linthicum KJ, Peters CJ, Rift Valley fever in rural northern Senegal: human risk factors and potential vectors, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 50(6), 663-75, June 1994 Abstract
  • Tesh RB, Wilson ML, Salas R, De Manzione NM, Tovar D, Ksiazek TG, Peters CJ, Field studies on the epidemiology of Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever: implication of the cotton rat Sigmodon alstoni as the probable rodent reservoir, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 49(2), 227-35, August 1993 Abstract
  • Logan TM, Wilson ML, Cornet JP, Association of ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea) with rodent burrows in northern Senegal, Journal of Medical Entomology, 30(4), 799-801, July 1993 Abstract
  • Morrison AC, Ferro C, Morales A, Tesh RB, Wilson ML, Dispersal of the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) at an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Colombia, Journal of Medical Entomology, 30(2), 427-35, March 1993 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Dykstra EA, Schmidt BA, Temperature- and humidity-dependent longevity of unfed adult Hyalomma truncatum (Acari: Ixodidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 30(2), 467-71, March 1993 Abstract
  • Durden LA, Logan TM, Wilson ML, Linthicum KJ, Experimental vector incompetence of a soft tick, Ornithodoros sonrai (Acari: Argasidae), for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Journal of Medical Entomology, 30(2), 493-6, March 1993 Abstract
  • Deblinger RD, Wilson ML, Rimmer DW, Spielman A, Reduced abundance of immature Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) following incremental removal of deer, Journal of Medical Entomology, 30(1), 144-50, January 1993 Abstract
  • Adler GH, Telford SR 3d, Wilson ML, Spielman A, Vegetation structure influences the burden of immature Ixodes dammini on its main host, Peromyscus leucopus, Parasitology, 105 ( Pt 1), 105-10, August 1992 Abstract
  • Tesh RB, Guzman H, Wilson ML, Trans-beta-farnesene as a feeding stimulant for the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 29(2), 226-31, March 1992 Abstract
  • Gonzalez JP, Camicas JL, Cornet JP, Faye O, Wilson ML, Sexual and transovarian transmission of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in Hyalomma truncatum ticks, Research in Virology, 143(1), 23-8, 1992 Abstract
  • Gonzalez JP, Cornet JP, Wilson ML, Camicas JL, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus replication in adult Hyalomma truncatum and Amblyomma variegatum ticks, Research in Virology, 142(6), 483-8, 1991 Abstract
  • Chapman LE, Wilson ML, Hall DB, LeGuenno B, Dykstra EA, Ba K, Fisher-Hoch SP, Risk factors for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in rural northern Senegal, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 164(4), 686-92, October 1991 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Gonzalez JP, Cornet JP, Camicas JL, Transmission of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus from experimentally infected sheep to Hyalomma truncatum ticks, Research in Virology, 142(5), 395-404, 1991 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Agudelo-Silva F, Spielman A, Increased abundance, size, and longevity of food-deprived mosquito populations exposed to a fungal larvicide, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 43(5), 551-6, November 1990 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Litwin TS, Gavin TA, Capkanis MC, Maclean DC, Spielman A, Host-dependent differences in feeding and reproduction of Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 27(6), 945-54, November 1990 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, LeGuenno B, Guillaud M, Desoutter D, Gonzalez JP, Camicas JL, Distribution of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viral antibody in Senegal: environmental and vectorial correlates, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 43(5), 557-66, November 1990 Abstract
  • Gonzalez JP, LeGuenno B, Guillaud M, Wilson ML, A fatal case of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Mauritania: virological and serological evidence suggesting epidemic transmission, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 84(4), 573-6, 1990 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Ducey AM, Litwin TS, Gavin TA, Spielman A, Microgeographic distribution of immature Ixodes dammini ticks correlated with that of deer, Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 4(2), 151-9, April 1990 Abstract
  • Mather TN, Wilson ML, Moore SI, Ribeiro JM, Spielman A, Comparing the relative potential of rodents as reservoirs of the Lyme disease spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi), American Journal of Epidemiology, 130(1), 143-50, July 1989 Abstract
  • Lastavica CC, Wilson ML, Berardi VP, Spielman A, Deblinger RD, Rapid emergence of a focal epidemic of Lyme disease in coastal Massachusetts, New England Journal of Medicine, 320(3), 133-7, January 1989 Abstract
  • Ksiazek TG, Jouan A, Meegan JM, Le Guenno B, Wilson ML, Peters CJ, Digoutte JP, Guillaud M, Merzoug NO, Touray EM, Rift Valley fever among domestic animals in the recent West African outbreak, Research in Virology, 140(1), 67-77, 1989 Abstract
  • Eng TR, Wilson ML, Spielman A, Lastavica CC, Greater risk of Borrelia burgdorferi infection in dogs than in people [letter] [see comments], Journal of Infectious Diseases, 158(6), 1410-1, December 1988 Abstract
  • Guillaud M, Le Guenno B, Wilson ML, Desoutter D, Gonzalez JP, Digoutte JP, [Prevalence of antibodies against Rift Valley fever virus in sheep and goats in Senegal], Annales De L Institut Pasteur. Virology, 139(4), 455-9, 1988 Abstract
  • Telford SR 3d, Mather TN, Moore SI, Wilson ML, Spielman A, Incompetence of deer as reservoirs of the Lyme disease spirochete, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 39(1), 105-9, July 1988 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Telford SR 3d, Piesman J, Spielman A, Reduced abundance of immature Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) following elimination of deer, Journal of Medical Entomology, 25(4), 224-8, July 1988 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Reduced abundance of adult Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae) following destruction of vegetation, Journal of Economic Entomology, 79(3), 693-6, June 1986 Abstract
  • Wise PH, Kotelchuck M, Wilson ML, Mills M, Racial and socioeconomic disparities in childhood mortality in Boston, New England Journal of Medicine, 313(6), 360-6, August 1985 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Spielman A, Seasonal activity of immature Ixodes dammini (Acari: Ixodidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 22(4), 408-14, July 1985 Abstract
  • Levine JF, Wilson ML, Spielman A, Mice as reservoirs of the Lyme disease spirochete, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 34(2), 355-60, March 1985 Abstract
  • Spielman A, Wilson ML, Levine JF, Piesman J, Ecology of Ixodes dammini-borne human babesiosis and Lyme disease, Annual Review of Entomology, 30, 439-60, 1985 Abstract
  • Wilson ML, Levine JF, Spielman A, Effect of deer reduction on abundance of the deer tick (Ixodes dammini), Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 57(4), 697-705, 1984 Abstract
  • Spielman A, Levine JF, Wilson ML, Vectorial capacity of North American Ixodes ticks, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 57(4), 507-13, 1984 Abstract

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