Justin Brown, DVM, PhD

Professional Experience

2014-present: Wildlife Veterinarian, Pennsylvania Game Commission, State College, PA

2004-2013: Wildlife Disease Diagnostician, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

2009-2013: Assistant Research Scientist

2007-2009: Postdoctoral Research Associate

2004-2007: Graduate Assistant

Teaching Experience

Wildlife Diseases (VBSC 409), Course Co-Instructor, 2014

Honors and Awards

2008: American Association of Avian Pathologists’ Reed Rumsey Award

2006: Wildlife Disease Association Research Recognition Award

2004: Morris Animal Foundation Science Fellow

2004: Wildlife Disease Association Scholarship

Professional Service

2013-present: The Condor: Ornithological Applications, Associate Editor

2009-2013: PLoS ONE, Academic Editor

2008-present: The Wildlife Disease Association

2009-present: Student Awards Committee

2008-2009: Time and Place Committee 

Research Interests

My research focuses on understanding the impacts of diseases on wildlife populations and the potential for wildlife species involvement in diseases of agricultural or public health importance. Current projects are focused on avian influenza virus ecology in wild birds, parvoviruses of carnivores, retroviruses of wild turkeys, chronic wasting disease, and mange in black bears.

Selected Publications

Poulson, R.L., S.M. Tompkins, R.D. Berghaus, J.D. Brown, and D.E. Stallknecht.  Environmental stability of swine and human pandemic influenza viruses in water under variable conditions of temperature, salinity, and pH.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82: 3721-3726, 2016.

Brown, J.D., P. Dunn, E. Pendleton, S. Kariyawasam, T. Schriner, C. Hofacre, J. Johnson, and R. Boyd.  Surveillance for chronic carriers of Pasteurella multocida in ring-neck pheasants after apparent successful antibiotic treatment.  Avian Diseases 60: 87-89, 2016.

Ramey, A.M., P. Walther, P. Link, R.L. Poulson, B.R. Wilcox, G. Newsome, E. Spackman, J.D. Brown, and D.E. Stallknecht.  Optimizing surveillance for South American origin influenza A viruses along the United States Gulf Coast through genomic characterization of isolates from blue-winged teal (Anas discors).  Transboundary and Emerging Infectious Diseases 63: 194-202, 2016.

Elsmo, E.J., A.B. Allison and J.D. Brown.  2016.  A review of dermatologic diseases in wild turkeys in the eastern United States from 1975-2013.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases 52: 582-591, 2016.

Gonzalez Astudillo, V., S.M. Hernandez, V. Peters, M.J. Yabsley, D.G. Mead, M.K. Keel, B.A. Munk, J. Fischer, J. Brown, and N. Nemeth.  Mortality of selected avian orders submitted to a wildlife diagnostic laboratory (Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, USA): A 36-year restrospective analysis.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases 52: 441-458, 2016.

Miller, E.A, C.P. Driscoll, S. Davison, L. Murphy, E. Bronson, A. Wack, A. Rivas, and J. Brown.  Snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) morbidity and mortality investigations in the DOS region in the winters of 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.  Delmarva Ornithologist 44: 4-12, 2015.

Ruder, M.G., D.G. Mead, D.E. Stallknecht, M. Kedmil, E. Klement, J.D. Brown, D.L. Carter, and E.W. Howerth.  Experimental Infection of Holstein cows and calves with EHDV-7 and preliminary evaluation of different inoculation methods.  Veterinaria Italiana 51: 289-299, 2015.

Hall. J, R.E. Russell, J. C. Franson, C. Soos, R.J. Dusek, R.B. Allen, S.W. Nashold, J.L. TeSlaa, J. Ballard, J.M. Nolting, A.S. Bowman, R.D. Slemons, and J. Brown.  Avian influenza ecology in marine waterfowl: not all ducks are created equal.  PLoS ONE 10: e0144524, 2015.

Samuel, M.D., J.Hall, J.D. Brown, D.R. Goldberg, H. Ip, and V.V. Baranyuk.  The dynamics of avian influenza in Western Arctic snow geese: implications for annual and migratory infection patterns.  Ecological Applications 25: 1851-1859, 2015.

Thomas, J.M., A.B. Allison, E. Holmes, J. Phillips, E. Bunting, M. Yabsley, and J.D. Brown.  Molecular surveillance for lymphoproliferative disease virus in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in the Eastern United States.  PLoS ONE 10: e0122644, 2015.

Allison, A.B., J.R. Ballard, R.B. Tesh, J.D. Brown, M.G. Ruder, M.K. Keel, B.A. Munk, R. Mickley, S. Gibbs, A. da Rosa, J.C. Ellis, H. Ip, V.I. Shern-Bochsler, M.B. Rogers, E. Gheldin, E.C. Holmes, C.R. Parrish, and C. Dwyer.  Cyclic avian mass mortality in the northeastern United States is associated with a novel orthomyxovirus.  Journal of Virology 89: 1389-1403, 2015.

Lebarbenchon, C., J.C. Pedersen, S. Sreevatsan, A. Ramey, V.G. Dugan, R.A. Halpin, P. Ferro, B. Lupiani, S. Enomoto, R.L. Poulson, M. Smeltzer, C.J. Cardona, D. Wentworth, D.E. Stallknecht, and J.D. Brown.  H7N9 influenza A virus in turkeys in Minnesota.  Journal of General Virology 96: 269-276, 2015.

Caudill, G., D. Wolf, D. Caudill, J. Brown, and V. Shearn-Bochsler.  A juvenile wading bird mortality event in urban Jacksonville, Florida associated with the parasite Eustrongylides.  Florida Field Naturalist 42: 108-113, 2014.

Davis-Fields, M.K., A.B. Allison, J.D. Brown, R.L. Poulson, and D.E. Stallknecht.  Effects of temperature and pH on the persistence of avian paramyxovirus-1 in water.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50: 998-1000, 2014.

Slusher, M.J., B.R. Wilcox, M.P. Lutrell, R. Poulson, J.D. Brown, M.J. Yabsley, and D.E. Stallknecht.  Are Passerine Birds Reservoirs for Influenza a Viruses?  Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50: 792-809, 2014.

Brown, J.D., D.E. Swayne, C. Lebarbenchon, and D.E. Stallknecht.  Survivability of Eurasian H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in water varies between strains. Avian Diseases 58: 453-457, 2014.

Roche, B., J.M. Drake, T. Bedford, J.D. Brown, D.E. Stallknecht, and P. Rohani.  Adaptive evolution and environmental durability jointly structure phylodynamic patterns in avian influenza viruses.  PLoS Biology 12(8): e1001931, 2014.

Ramey, A. M., Poulson, R. L., González-Reiche, A. S., Perez, D. R., Stallknecht, D. E., and Brown, J. D. Genomic characteristics of H14 subtype influenza A viruses in New World waterfowl and experimental infectivity in mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). PLoS ONE 9: e95620, 2014.

Kistler, W. M., Brown, J. D., Allison, A. B., Nemeth, N. M., and Yabsley, M. J.  First report of Angiostrongylus vasorum and Hepatozoon canis in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) from the United States. Veterinary Parasitology 200: 216-220, 2014.

Allison, A. B., Keel, M. K., Philips, J. E., Cartoceti, A. N., Munk,  B. A., Nemeth, 
N. M., Welsh, T. I., Thomas, J. M., Crum, J. M., Lichtenwalner, A. B., Bunting, 
E. M., Fadley, A. M., Zavala, G., Holmes, E. C., and Brown, J. D. Avian oncogenesis induced by lymphoproliferative disease virus: A neglected or emerging retroviral pathogen? Virology 450-451: 2-12, 2014. 

Nemeth, N., Ruder, M., Gerhold, R., Brown, J., Munk, B., Oesterle, P., Kubiski, S., and Keel, K. Demodectic mange, dermatophilosis, and other infectious dermatologic diseases in free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the southeastern United States from 1977-2012. Veterinary Pathology 51: 633-640, 2014.

Lebarbenchon, C., Brown, J. D., and Stallknecht, D. Evolution of influenza A H7 and N9 subtypes, Eastern Asia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 19: 1635-1638, 2013.

Brown, J. D., Poulson, R., Carter, D., Lebarbenchon, C., Pantin-Jackwood, M., Spackman, E.,  Shepherd, E. , and Stallknecht, D. Comparative susceptibility of avian species to low pathogenic avian influenza viruses of the H13 subtype. Avian Diseases 56: 969-975, 2012.

Allison, A. B., Harbison, C. E., Pagan, I., Stucker, K. M., Jason T. Kaelber, Brown, J. D., Ruder, M. G., Keel, M. K., Dubovi, E. J., Holmes, E. C., and Parrish, C. R. Role of multiple hosts in the cross-species transmission and emergence of a pandemic parvovirus. Journal of Virology 86: 865-872, 2012.

Brown, J. D., Stallknecht, D. E., Berghaus, R. D., Beck, J. R., Leathers, V., Kistler, W., Costa, T., Luttrell, P., and Swayne, D. E. Evaluation of a commercial blocking ELISA as a serologic assay for avian influenza virus in experimentally infected wild avian species. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 16: 824-829, 2009.

Faust, C., Stallknecht, D., and Brown, J. Filter-feeding bivalves can remove avian influenza viruses from water and reduce infectivity. Proceedings of Royal Society B 276: 3727-3735, 2009.

Stallknecht, D.E., and Brown, J. D. Tenacity of Avian Influenza Virus. Rev. Sci. Tech. Off. Int. Epiz. 28: 59-67, 2009.

Brown, J. D., Stallknecht, D. E., and Swayne, D. E. Experimental Infection of Swans and Geese with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) of Asian Lineage. Emerging Infectious Diseases: 136-142, 2008.