Laura Bergner

I am postdoctoral research assistant currently based at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow, where I received my PhD in 2018. I am broadly interested in the ecology and evolution of wildlife and their pathogens, and the ways in which human activities alter these dynamics. My research makes use of primarily molecular tools, along with field studies, bioinformatics, and ecological/evolutionary analyses. During my PhD, I developed methods for studying microbial communities in wildlife using non-invasive sampling, and applied these to studying the demographic and environmental drivers of viral communities in common vampire bats. I am currently working on developing an epigenetic clock to age vampire bats in the field using minimally invasive samples.