I am a wildlife epidemiologist with a broad interest in understanding diseases of wildlife populations at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of infectious diseases in multi-host pathogen systems and methods to assess the changes and impacts of disease in these populations, although my research includes non-infectious disease dynamics as well. Much of my research includes developing new approaches to studying disease in wildlife using advanced epidemiological, ecological, and molecular methods. As such, the nature of my work is highly multidisciplinary. I am involved in several lines of research that include moose health, Parelaphostrongylus tenuis transmission, primate health surveillance, tuberculosis transmission at the interface of humans and wildlife, and contaminants of emerging concern in aquatic ecosystems.

• Chronic Wasting Diseas
• Moose health in a declining population
• Parelaphostrongylus tenuis epidemiology

• Role of wildlife in multihost pathogen systems

  
  See link for a video highlighting some of the research I am involved in:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhF3n20e4_s

Note: names underlined are trainees in the Wolf Lab.

• Schwabenlander, M. D., Bartz, J. C., Carstensen, M., Fameli, A., Glaser, L., Larsen, R. J.,
  Lindsey, L. L., Oliver, J. D., Shoemaker, R. L., Rowden, G., Stone, S., Walter, W. D., Wolf*, T.
  M., Larsen*, P. A. (2024). Prion forensics: Implementing veterinary forensics to investigate
  chronic wasting disease at a deer carcass disposal site. Prion, 18(1), 72-86. doi:
  10.1080/19336896.2024.2343298
  *Co-senior authors
• Moore, S. A., Severud, W. J., Wolf, T. M., Pelican, K., Bauerkemper, J., Carstensen, M.,
  Windels, S. K. Indigenous co-stewardship of North American moose: recommendations and a
  vision for a restoration framework. The Journal of Wildlife Management. doi:
  10.1002/jwmg.22623
• Moore*, S. A., Wolf*, T. M., Severud, W. J., Isaac, E. J., Chenaux-Ibrahim, Y. M. Spring black
  bear harvest and predation pressure on moose calves in a multi-predator system. Journal of
  Wildlife Management. doi: 10.1002/jwmg.22618
  *Co-first authors
• Deere, J., Jankowski, M. D., Primus, A., Phelps, N. B.D., Ferrey, M., Borucinska, J., Chenaux-
  Ibrahim, Y., Isaac, E. J., Singer, R. S., Travis, D. A., Moore, S., Wolf, T. M. (2023). Health of
  wild fish exposed to contaminants of emerging concern in freshwater ecosystems utilized by a
  Minnesota Tribal community. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4822
• Picasso-Risso, C., Schwabenlander, M. D., Rowden, G., Carstensen, M., Bartz, J. C., Larsen,
  P. A., Wolf, T. M. (2022). Assessment of Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC)
  Assay, Immunohistochemistry and ELISA for Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease under Field
  Conditions in White-Tailed Deer: A Bayesian Approach. Pathogens, 11(5), 489. doi:
  10.3390/pathogens11050489
• Oliveira-Santos, L. R., Moore, S. A., Severud, W. J., Forester, J. D., Isaac, E. J., Chenaux-
  Ibrahim, Y., Garwood, T., Escobar, L. E., Wolf, T. M. (2021). Spatial compartmentalization: A
  nonlethal predator mechanism to reduce parasite transmission between prey species. Science
  Advances, 7(52). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj5944
• Marchetto, K. M., Heuschele, D. J., Larkin, D. J., Wolf, T. M. (2020). Goat digestion leads to low
  survival and viability of common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) seeds. Natural Areas Journal,
  40(2), 150-154.
• Wolf, T. M., Wang, W. A., Lonsdorf, E. V., Gillespie, T. R., Pusey, A., Gilby, I., Travis, D. A.,
  Singer, R. S. (2019). Optimizing syndromic health surveillance in free ranging great apes: the case of Gombe National Park. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(3), 509-518. doi: 10.1111/1365-
  2664.1328
• Smith, KM, Zambrana-Torrelio C, White A, Asmussen M., Machalaba C, Kennedy S, Lopez K, Wolf TM, Travis DA, Karesh WB. Summarizing US wildlife trade with an eye toward assessing the risk of infectious disease introduction. EcoHealth 2017, 14(1): 29-39. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-017-1211-7
• Thompson R, Wolf TM, Robertson H, Colburn MW, Moreno A, Moresco A, Napier AE, Nofs S. Using serial ultrasound in southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) to create fetal growth curves. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 2017, 48(2).
• Lonsdorf EV, Gillespie TR, Wolf TM, Lipende I, Raphael J, Bakuza J, Murray CM, Wilson ML, Kamenya S, Mjungu D, Collins DA, Gilby IC, Stanton MA, Terio KA, Barbian HJ, Li Y, Ramirez M, Krupnick A, Seidl E, Goodall J, Hahn BH, Pusey AE, Travis DA. Socioecological Correlates of Ill Health in Two Communities of Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22562
• Wolf TM, Sreevatsan S, Singer RS, Lipende I, Collins A, Gillespie TR, Lonsdorf, EV, Travis, DA. Noninvasive tuberculosis screening in free-living primate populations in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. EcoHealth. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-015-1063-y.
• Thompson R, Gebhart CJ, Armién AG, Olsen K, Marthaler D, Rasmussen JM, Wolf TM, Wünschmann A. Fatal pyogranulomatous inflammation in Daurian pikas (Ochotona dauurica) naturally infected with Castellaniella ginsengisoli-like bacteria. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 2015, 46(3):560-64.
• Wolf TM, Mugisha L, Shoyama FM, O’Malley MJ, Flynn JL, Asiimwe B, Travis DA, Singer RS, Sreevatsan S. Noninvasive test for tuberculosis detection among primates. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2015 Mar. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2103.140052
• Salas E, Wolf T, Harris S. Chronic renal disease and hepatocellular carcinoma in a captive two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 2014, 45(2): 402-05.
• Wolf TM, Sreevatsan S, Travis D, Mugisha L, Singer R. The risk of tuberculosis transmission to free-ranging great apes. American Journal of Primatology, 2014, Vol.76:(1), pp.2-13. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22197
• Wolf TM, Wunschmann A, Morningstar-Shaw B. Pantlin GC, Rasmussen JM, Thompson RL. An outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Choleraesuis in goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutrosa subgutrosa) and a Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 2011, 42(4):694-99.

Additional publications can be found at:

• PubMed

Book chapters and scholarly articles

• Wolf TM and Travis D. Contributions: Prevalence; Epizootiology. In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Fuentes A (ed). Wiley-Blackwell. In press.
• Travis DA and Wolf TM. Contribution: Epidemiology. In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Fuentes A (ed). Wiley-Blackwell. In press.
• Wolf TM. Contributions: Babesiosis, Blastomycosis. In: Infectious Disease Manual, 1st and 2nd ed. 2011, 2013. Napier J and Gamble K. (eds.) Infectious Disease Committee, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. http://www.aazv.org/?page=754&hhSearchTerms=%22infectious+and+disease+and+captive%22
• Hammond E and Wolf TM. Hurones. In: Atlas de Medicina, Terapéutica y Patología de Animales Exóticos. 2da ed. Aguilar R, Hernández SM, Divers SJ, and Perpiñán D. (eds). Inter-médica Editorial, Buenos Aires, Rebública Argentina, 2010.
• Wolf TM. Ferrets. In: Manual of Exotic Pet Practice. Mitchell MA and Tully TN (eds.) Saunders, St. Louis, MO, 2009.
• Hammond E and Wolf TM. Medicina y cirugía de hurones. In: Atlas de Medicina, Terapéutica y Patología de Animales Exóticos. Aguilar R, Hernández-Divers SM, and Hernández-Divers SJ. (eds). Inter-médica Editorial, Buenos Aires, Rebública Argentina, 2005.

• Veterinary Public Health
• Ecosystem Health
• Infectious Disease Ecology

• CVM 6500
• VMED 5180
• GCC 3020/5020

• McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota 2023
• Academy for Excellence in Team Science, Office of Academic Clinical Affairs, University of
  Minnesota 2022
• President’s Community Engaged Scholar Award, Office for Public Engagement, University of
  Minnesota 2021