Manuel Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Disease Ecology and One Health, Mississippi State University

Manuel started working with Bat One Heath as postdoc at Griffith University, Australia, and Montana State University. He began his veterinary career with livestock before he developed his interest in research. He is broadly interested in how organisms respond to ecological stimuli such as temperature regimes, and host-pathogen interactions. For his PhD, Manuel investigated the Tasmanian devil and its Facial Tumour Disease, which threatens the species with extinction. His current work integrates veterinary sciences, ecology and evolutionary biology to understand how host health drives the ecology and evolution of diseases. Manuel completed his veterinary degree at Chile’s Universidad Austral, before moving to Australia for his PhD at the University of Tasmania. Read about his PhD work here.