Come hear how habitat can affect rodent species as hosts of Lyme disease and other bacteria! Join us on Tues 1/14, for a public NEON Science Seminar with Lynn B. Martin and Vania R. Assis of the University of South Florida. Register here: buff.ly/41VCRWf

Attending #SICB2025? Check out my poster on Sun Jan 5! Learn how urbanization elevates FKBP5 expression in Peromyscus leucopus, highlighting stress response and implications for zoonotic reservoirs #UrbanEcology #StressBiology

Excited to present at #SICB2025 as a speaker at S8: Join us on Jan 6 to explore how stressors interplay with hormones like corticosterone, testosterone, and melatonin to shape amphibian health #Science #EcoImmunology #Frogs #Conservation

Have a great poster talk at #SICB2025 this year Vania R Assis ! & we hope no one misses out on your other IOB work #Lipopolysaccharide regulates pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokines, corticosterone, and #melatonin in #toads LF Ferreira, Assis et al IOB doi.org/10.1093/iob/ob…

We second this Vania R Assis ! & want to plug your fantastic ICB co authored work for the #SICB2025 crew as well 👏👏 #Ecoimmunology: What Unconventional #Organisms Tell Us after Two Decades Vania R Assis, Stefanny C M Titon, Jamie Voyles doi.org/10.1093/icb/ic…

TUES, JAN 14th: Come learn how habitat can affect rodent species as hosts of Lyme disease and other bacteria! Join NEON for a public NEON Science Seminar with Lynn B. Martin and Vania R. Assis of the University of South Florida. Register here: buff.ly/4a9gVZS

Go, go, go! ⏱ 🏃‍♀️🐢 No time left to travel at a turtle's pace. After today, all unreserved rooms, cabins, and chalets for SEPARC's annual meeting will be released to the public. #LastChance #SEPARC2025

It's not too late! Join us TOMORROW, 1/14 to learn how habitat can affect rodent species as hosts of Lyme disease and other bacteria! This NEON Science Seminar will feature Lynn B. Martin and Vania R. Assis of the University of South Florida. Register: buff.ly/4a9gVZS

🎉 Happy to share my 1st paper with mice 🔬 Immunological differences between two species of Peromyscus 🐭 may influence their competence as reservoirs of tick-borne pathogens 🦠 📖 Check out: bit.ly/3CCFtxI

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USF research day 2025! If you are around and want to know more about stress and urbanization, stop by my poster at the Marshall Student center #440

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Another great day of science dissemination 👩‍🔬 I had a blast showing how immune gene expression can be a proxy for host competence in Peromyscus mice – key reservoirs of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria causing Lyme disease. 🦠🐁 Download the paper here: bit.ly/4k9wbKC

Looking for a new postdoc in my lab USF Public Health. Join a collaboration between John Orrock and me on Lyme disease ecology here in beautiful Tampa. Job #40278 at USF Careers website. Please R/T or email me with questions.

Proud moment! My undergrads rocked their presentation at the OneUSF Undergraduate Research Conference 💪 Huge thanks to Adam Kwon for leading the poster session. And they gave me a froggy gift?! I have the best students 🐸💚 #UndergradResearch #OneUSF #ProudMentor

In our most recent episode we talk with Bill Zamer and Sam Scheiner, two former BIO program officers at the NSF, about the recently proposed 56% budget cut to the NSF. 🎙️Listen now: bigbiology.substack.com/p/savensf-epis… #scicomm #science #sciencecommunication #SaveNSF #NSF

Exciting News! I’m thrilled to share that this fall I’ll be joining the University of West Alabama as an Assistant Professor of Biology in Livingston, AL! Get ready for the launch of the Assis Lab, where we’ll be diving into some very cool herpetological research 🐸

🐸NEW PAPER! Stefanny CM Titon How do #amphibians handle #stress? What happens to their #immune response?💥From acute boost to chronic suppression, our latest review in ICB dives into: 🧠HPI axis 📉Corticosterone 🔬Immune shifts 🌍Conservation impact 📘Read: bit.ly/4nVlSfa