Education and/or Training

B.S.	1983	Maryville College, TN	Biology
M.S.	1987	Murray State University, KY	Animal Parasitology
Ph.D.	1993	Auburn University, AL	Animal Parasitology

Areas of Specialization and or Research Interests

Wildlife Parasitology- Supervises the parasitology laboratory. Develops research projects as needs arise from diagnostic findings and seeks funding to execute research projects.

Current USGS Research and Projects

Monitoring the non indigenous aquatic snail Bithynia tentaculata and its parasites in the Upper Midwest United States.
Survey of parasites of fish in Grand Canyon.

Professional Experience

1988-1993

Research & Teaching Assistant, Dept of Pathobiology, Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

Sigma Xi Honor Society
American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists
Helminthological Society of Washington
American Society of Parasitologists

Honors and/or Awards

Invited Speaker	2006	American Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists. Winona State University, MN. Westward Movement of the Invasive Snail Bithynia tentaculata (GASTROPODA: PROSOBRANCHIA) and its Parasites into the Mississippi.	Winona, Minnesota
Invited Speaker	2006	St. Georges School of Veterinary Medicine, Instruction in wildlife parasitology lectures and laboratories.	St Georges, Grenada
Invited Speaker	2004	Global Flyways Conference, "Recurring waterbird mortalities of unusual etiologies."	Edinburgh, Scotland
Invited Speaker	2004	Joint Meeting of Animal Disease Research Workers in Southern States, Southern Conference on Animal Parasites and Southern Conference of Researchers in Aquatic Diseases. "Parasites of the wet and wild type."	Biloxi, Mississippi
Invited Speaker	2003	World Assoc for the Advancement of Parasitology Symposium "Parasites as Water Quality Hazards"
Invited Speaker	2003	Western Chapter of Amer. Fisheries Society Symposium "Ecology of Grand Canyon Fishes"
Invited Speaker	2002	Howard Hughes Lecture Series	Murray State University
Adjunct Assistant Professor	2001 – present	Dept of Biology	University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse
Chair	2001 – 2003	Ashton Cuckler Award Committee

Selected Publications

Sundar, N., R.A. COLE, N.J. Thomas, D. Majumdar, J.P. Dubey and C. Su. 2008. Genetic diversity among sea otter isolates of Toxoplasma gondii. Veterinary Parasitology 151: 125-132.

Adams, M. J., S. G. Galvan, D. Reinitz, R. A. COLE, S. Pyare, M. Hahr, and P. Govindarajulu. 2007. Incidence of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibian populations along the northwest coast of North America. Herpetological Review 38:430-431.

Hansen, S.P., A. Choudhury, and R.A. COLE. 2007. Evidence of Experimental Postcyclic Transmission of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi in Bonytail Chub (Gila elegans). Journal of Parasitology 93: 202-204.

Hansen, S., A. Choudhury, D. HEISEY, J.A. Ahumada, T.L. Hoffnagle, and R.A. COLE. Experimental infection of the endangered bonytail chub (Gila elegans) with the Asian fish tapeworm (Bothriocephalus acheilognathi): impacts on survival, growth, and condition. 2006 Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:1383-1394.

CHOUDHURY, A., T.L. Hoffnagle, and R.A. COLE. Parasites of native and non-native fishes of the Little Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona. 2004 Journal of Parasitology 90(5):1042-1053.

Websites of Interest

• www.whitehouse.org
• www.theonion.com