Andrea Ayala

Andrea Ayala

Assistant Professor
Office: UNH COLSA Natural Resources & the Environment, James Hall, Durham, NH 03824
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Courses Taught

  • NR 439: Environmental Biology

Education

  • Ph.D., Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia

Research Interests

  • Ornithology
  • Birds
  • Animal Diseases/Pathology
  • Wildlife

Selected Publications

  • Greening, S. S., Ellis, J. C., Lewis, N. L., Needle, D. B., Tato, C. M., Knowles, S., . . . Nemeth, N. M. (2025). An Enigmatic Wild Passerine Mortality Event in the Eastern United States.. Vet Sci, 12(1). doi:10.3390/vetsci12010048

  • Ayala, A. J., Cheng, M., Hellinger, T. A., McBride, K. M., Webb, J., Fanning, A., . . . Ogbunugafor, C. B. (2025). Wild Florida mottled ducks demonstrate strong heterogeneity in their humoral innate immune response.. PLoS One, 20(3), e0312653. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0312653

  • Mwakibete, L., Greening, S. S., Kalantar, K., Ahyong, V., Anis, E., Miller, E. A., . . . Gagne, R. B. (2024). Metagenomics for Pathogen Detection During a Mass Mortality Event in Songbirds.. J Wildl Dis, 60(2), 362-374. doi:10.7589/JWD-D-23-00109

  • Taylor, L. U., Ronconi, R. A., Spina, H. A., Jones, M. E. B., Ogbunugafor, C. B., & Ayala, A. J. (2023). Limited Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Influenza A(H5N1) in Herring Gull Colony, Canada, 2022.. Emerg Infect Dis, 29(10), 2150-2154. doi:10.3201/eid2910.230536

  • Ayala, A. J., Kabengele, K., Almagro-Moreno, S., & Ogbunugafor, C. B. (2023). Meteorological associations of Vibrio vulnificus clinical infections in tropical settings: Correlations with air pressure, wind speed, and temperature.. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 17(7), e0011461. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011461

  • Ayala, A. J., & Ogbunugafor, C. B. (2023). When Vibrios Take Flight: A Meta-Analysis of Pathogenic Vibrio Species in Wild and Domestic Birds.. In Unknown Book (Vol. 1404, pp. 295-336). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22997-8_15

  • Ayala, A. J., Haas, L. K., Williams, B. M., Fink, S. S., Yabsley, M. J., & Hernandez, S. M. (2022). Risky business in Georgia's wild birds: contact rates between wild birds and backyard chickens is influenced by supplemental feed.. Epidemiol Infect, 150, e102. doi:10.1017/S0950268822000851

  • Ayala, A. J., Yabsley, M. J., & Hernandez, S. M. (2020). A Review of Pathogen Transmission at the Backyard Chicken-Wild Bird Interface.. Front Vet Sci, 7, 539925. doi:10.3389/fvets.2020.539925

  • Ayala, A. J., Hernandez, S. M., Olivier, T. L., Welch, C. N., Dimitrov, K. M., Goraichuk, I. V., . . . Miller, P. J. (2019). Experimental Infection and Transmission of Newcastle Disease Vaccine Virus in Four Wild Passerines.. Avian Dis, 63(3), 389-399. doi:10.1637/11980-092918-Reg.1

  • Ayala, A. J., Dimitrov, K. M., Becker, C. R., Goraichuk, I. V., Arns, C. W., Bolotin, V. I., . . . Afonso, C. L. (2016). Presence of Vaccine-Derived Newcastle Disease Viruses in Wild Birds.. PLoS One, 11(9), e0162484. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162484

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