Kristin Dyer, Research Technician
Kristin is our jack-of-all-trades research technician. She earned her BS in Wildlife Biology from Texas State University and has since worked with bats, herpetofauna, and wildlife diseases, including bat projects in Texas and Wyoming, Texas endemic snake monitoring, and radio-telemetry of Burmese pythons in the Everglades. At OU, she leads our TABR sampling, assists with additional fieldwork and laboratory analyses, and studies TABR migration timing using radar.
Interests: bat and herpetofauna conservation, disease ecology, invasion ecology, fungal pathogens, animal movement
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Lunn T, Streicker DG, Becker DJ, Forbes KM. Interventions to prevent and manage bat-associated pathogens: effectiveness and current research.
Carlson CJ, Albery GA, Becker DJ, Gibb R, Nikc K, Ryan SJ, Wille M. Causal inference and the macroecology of viral diversity.
Vicente-Santos A, Ledezma-Campos P, Becker DJ, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Corrales-Aguilar E, Civitello DJ, Czirjak GÁ, Gillespie TR. Human-induced disturbance affects bat immune response and consequently infection risk.
Vicente-Santos A, Czirják GÁ, Neely BA, Becker DJ. Leveraging proteomics to generate novel insights into immunity and infection in the wild.
Becker DJ, Simonis MC, Vicente-Santos A. Outstanding taxonomic, geographic, and methodological biases in bat immunology.
Verrett TB, Becker DJ. Urban affinity and migratory strategy interact to shape the coevolution of haemosporidian parasites and their avian hosts.
Allira M, Dyer KE, Lock LR, Batista JMN, Lei GS, Relich RF, Becker DJ. Identifying seasonality of stress and viral shedding in Mexican free-tailed bats.
Lock LR, Dyer KE, Volokhov DV, Fenton MB, Simmons NB, Becker DJ. Longitudinal impacts of habitat fragmentation on Bartonella and hemoplasma dynamics in vampire bats.
Dyer KE, Lock LR, Simonis MC, Fenton MB, Simmons NB, Becker DJ. Cellular immunity and hemoparasitism in a fragmented Neotropical bat community.
Becker DJ, Verrett TV, Allira M, Dyer KE, Heckley AM, Roistacher A, Cummings CA, Simonis MC, Vicente-Santos A, O'Mara MT, Altizer S, Hall RJ, Owen JC. Animal migration and the within-host dynamics of infectious disease: a theory- and data-driven synthesis.
Allira M, Dyer KE, Ballard KM, Lang GA, Lang ML, Becker DJ. Optimizing and validating a flow cytometry protocol to study cellular immunity in wild bats.
Carlson CJ, Albery GA, Becker DJ, Gibb R, Nikc K, Ryan SJ, Wille M. Causal inference and the macroecology of viral diversity.
Vicente-Santos A, Ledezma-Campos P, Becker DJ, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Corrales-Aguilar E, Civitello DJ, Czirjak GÁ, Gillespie TR. Human-induced disturbance affects bat immune response and consequently infection risk.
Vicente-Santos A, Czirják GÁ, Neely BA, Becker DJ. Leveraging proteomics to generate novel insights into immunity and infection in the wild.
Becker DJ, Simonis MC, Vicente-Santos A. Outstanding taxonomic, geographic, and methodological biases in bat immunology.
Verrett TB, Becker DJ. Urban affinity and migratory strategy interact to shape the coevolution of haemosporidian parasites and their avian hosts.
Allira M, Dyer KE, Lock LR, Batista JMN, Lei GS, Relich RF, Becker DJ. Identifying seasonality of stress and viral shedding in Mexican free-tailed bats.
Lock LR, Dyer KE, Volokhov DV, Fenton MB, Simmons NB, Becker DJ. Longitudinal impacts of habitat fragmentation on Bartonella and hemoplasma dynamics in vampire bats.
Dyer KE, Lock LR, Simonis MC, Fenton MB, Simmons NB, Becker DJ. Cellular immunity and hemoparasitism in a fragmented Neotropical bat community.
Becker DJ, Verrett TV, Allira M, Dyer KE, Heckley AM, Roistacher A, Cummings CA, Simonis MC, Vicente-Santos A, O'Mara MT, Altizer S, Hall RJ, Owen JC. Animal migration and the within-host dynamics of infectious disease: a theory- and data-driven synthesis.
Allira M, Dyer KE, Ballard KM, Lang GA, Lang ML, Becker DJ. Optimizing and validating a flow cytometry protocol to study cellular immunity in wild bats.
