Cara N. Love, PhD
Cara’s goal is to help further our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary ramifications anthropogenic stressors have on wildlife populations
The world is changing at a rapid rate and, in the Anthropocene, humans have impacted nearly all environments around the globe. Yet, we are just starting to understand how environments are responding to, and the long term implications of, these influences.
Connecting Systems and Ideas
Cara combines immunology, genomics, ecology, and evolution to address how wildlife health and population dynamics are affected by chronic exposure to anthropogenic stress.
Informing conservation, scientific theory, and mechanisms important to individual and population health
Cara uses molecular, genomic, ecological and evolutionary techniques to address questions of response and resilience to chronic stress. These data help understand and maintain a robust and healthy natural world around us. Additionally, by examining questions of adaptive resilience, she is able to inform human medicine.
A good question can take
you anywhere
Cara’s research encompasses numerous systems and species worldwide.