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Education
BA, Biology, Amherst College, 2008

Publications

Amanda K. Gibson, Michael E. Hood, and Tatiana Giraud. 2011 Selfing and the sibling competition arena as barriers to gene flow in sympatry. Accepted: Evolution.

Jered M. Wendte, Amanda K. Gibson, and Michael E. Grigg. 2011 Population genetics of Toxoplasma gondii: new perspectives on parasite genotypes in wildlife. Veterinary Parasitology 182: 96-111.

Gibson AK, Raverty S, Lambourn DM, Huggins J, Magargal SL, and Grigg ME. 2011 Polyparasitism is associated with increased disease severity in Toxoplasma gondii-infected marine sentinel species. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5(5): e1142. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001142

Manuela Lopez-Villavicencio, Flavie Courjol, Amanda K. Gibson, Michael E. Hood, Odile Jonot, Jacqui A. Shykoff, and Tatiana Giraud. 2011 Competition, cooperation among kin, and virulence in multiple infections. Evolution: 65: 1357-1366.

Amanda K. Gibson, Jorge Mena-Ali, and Michael E. Hood. 2010 Loss of pathogens in threatened plant species.  Oikos 119: 1919-1928.

Michael E. Hood, Jorge I. Mena-Ali, Amanda K. Gibson, Bengt Oxelman, Tatiana Giraud, Roxana Yockyeng, Mary T. K. Arroyo, Fabio Conti, Amy Pedersen, Pierre Gladiuex and Janis Antonovics. 2010 Distribution of the anther-smut pathogen Microbotyrum on species of the Caryophyllaceae.  New Phytologist 187: 217-229. 


  


bio dep
Department of Biology
1001 East Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405-3700
USA
LIVELY LAB

Amanda K. Gibson (Mandy)
PhD student
amakgibs at indiana.edu


Research
I am a 2nd-year graduate student in the Lively lab. Previously, I've worked on broad-scale patterns of disease distribution and fungal speciation using plant hosts of the Silene genus and a pathogenic fungus, Microbotryum, the agent of anther-smut disease. I've also researched coinfection and protozoal zoonoses in North American marine mammals. I am currently interested in host-parasite coevolution, multiple infection, and parasite population structure in P. antipodarum and Microphallus.

Study system
Potamopyrgus antipodarum and its trematode Microphallus

Silene and the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum

 


Mandy Gibson Silene latifolia and Microbotryum

 

Surface Snail Mom and Baby Seal

Snail Party