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Ella Halbert

I am broadly interested in social information use in cooperative contexts. I am currently studying these ideas using Neotropical frugivorous bats in Panama.

PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Photos from the field! L to R: a Two-toed sloth, a Mesoamerican mustached bat, and a roost of Proboscis bats!

Publications

Reinhold, J., Roeske, I., Schmeder, I.E., Halbert, E., McLeod, D. S., Lahondère, C. (2026) Culex territans mosquitoes as a vector of Giant Anuran Trypanosomes. Parasites Vectors 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-026-07399-w

 

Reinhold, J.M., Halbert, E., Roark, M., Smith, S. N., Stroh, K. M., Siler, C. D., McLeod, D. S., Lahondère, C. (2023) The role of Culex territans mosquitoes in the transmission of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis to amphibian hosts. Parasites Vectors 16, 424. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-05992-x

 

Halbert, E. (2022) A Ladder of Endemicity: A pioneering study of anuran communities along an elevational gradient in the Eastern Andean Cloud Forests, Ecuador (final paper, non-peer reviewed). School for International Training’s Digital Library, Brattleboro, VT. https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/3382/

 

Rosenthal, J., Carelli, R., Omar, M., Brundage, D., Halbert, E., Nyman, J., Hari, S. N., Van Allen, E. M., Marchionni, L., Umeton, R., & Loda, M. (2021). Building tools for machine learning and artificial intelligence in cancer research: best practices and a case study with the PathML toolkit for computational pathology. Molecular Cancer Research, doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-21-0665

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