Dr. Sarah McGrath-Blaser

Ph.D. in Zoology | ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at the US EPA


Curriculum vitae




Publications


Invasibility of a North American soil ecosystem to amphibian-killing fungal pathogens. McGrath-Blaser, S. E., McGathey, N., Pardon, A., Longo, A. V. 2024. Proc. R. Soc. B. 291: 20232658.
Ontogeny drives shifts in skin bacterial communities in facultatively paedomorphic salamanders. Hartmann, A. M., McGrath-Blaser, S. E., Colon-Pineiro, Z., Longo, A. V. 2023. Microbiology 169(10) 001399.
Fungal invasions and potential spread through tourism and recreation. McGrath-Blaser, S. E., & Longo, A. V. 2022. In Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions. CABI. 27-35.
Panzootic chytrid fungus exploits diverse amphibian host environments through plastic infection strategies. Torres-Sánchez, M., Villate, J., McGrath-Blaser, S., and Longo, A. V. 2022. Molecular Ecology.
Early life skin microbial trajectory as a function of vertical and environmental transmission in Bornean foam-nesting frogs. McGrath-Blaser, S., Steffen, M. M., Grafe, U., Torres-Sánchez, M., McLeod, D. S., and Muletz-Wolz, C. R. 2021. Animal Microbiome 3(1):1-15.
Geographic Distribution: Eurycea hillisi. McGrath-Blaser, S., Hartmann, A., Doby, J. 2021. Herpetological Review 52(3):571.
Novel, less-invasive hylid survey device performs equal to traditional pipe refugia in field-based comparison. McGrath-Blaser, S., Neighbors, A., and Hyman, O. 2021. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16(2):355–360. 
 Identification of novel bacterial biomarkers to detect bird scavenging by invasive rats. Muletz-Wolz, C. R., Rankin, E. W., McGrath-Blaser, S., Venkatraman, M., Maldonado, J. E., Gruner, D. S., Fleischer, R. C. 2021. Ecology and Evolution 00:1–15. 
Novel Hylid survey technique: A clear alternative to traditional polyvinyl chloride pipe refugia. McGrath, S., Yirka, A., Frega, K., and Neighbors, A*. 2020. Herpetological Review 51(2):241–244. 
Bacterial community structure and response to nitrogen amendments in Lake Shenandoah (VA, USA). Reynoso, G., Smith, M. R., Holmes II, C. P., Keelan, C. R., McGrath, S. E., Alvarez, G. H., Coceano, M. A., Elderidge, K. A., Fried, H. I., Gilbert, N. E., Harris, M. T., Kohler, L. R., Modolo, C. M., Murray, E. A., Polisetti, S. M., Sales, D. J., Walsh, E. S., and Steffen, M. M. 2019. Water Science & Technology 80(4):675–684. 
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