Contact Information
Email: eselland@nd.edu

Bluesky: @eselland.bsky.social

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Education

B.S.  Animal Science, Cornell University, 2019

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Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of sustainable agriculture and disease ecology; namely, how human disease can be mitigated by improving human interactions with animals and the environment. I am passionate about understanding effective and scalable solutions to disease transmission in local communities and the communication of science to the public. As such, I work on research projects in Senegal and Kenya revolving around the ecological transmission of schistosomiasis that is mitigated by the aquatic snail hosts. I investigate ecological drivers of snail populations and their spread of disease, the intersection of ecological risk and human behavior, and mechanisms of intervention to disrupt transmission.

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Publications

Alexandra Sack+, Emily Selland+, Sidy Bakhoum, Momy Seck, Nicolas Jouanard, Louis Dossou Magblenou, Jason R Rohr. Human Schistosoma exposure risk in rice fields and an exploration of fish species for snail and schistosomiasis biocontrol. PLoS Global Public Health. May 2025. 

+ denotes co-first author

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Jason R Rohr, Alexandra Sack, Sidy Bakhoum, Christopher B Barrett, David Lopez-Carr, Andrew J Chamberlin, David J Civitello, Cledor Diatta, Molly J Doruska, Giulio A De Leo, Meghan Forstchen, Christopher J E Haggerty, Isabel J Jones, Nicolas Jouanard, Andrea J Lund, Amadou T. Ly, Raphael A Ndione, Justin V Remais, Gilles Riveau, Anne-Marie Schacht, Momy Seck, Emily Selland, Simon Senghor, Susanne H Sokolow, Caitlin Wolfe. A Planetary Health Adventure: How Removing Overgrown Aquatic Plants Can Help Kids Stay Healthy and Improve the Planet. Accepted in Frontiers for Young Minds. 

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Alexandra Sack, Emily Selland, Sidy Bakhoum, Jason R. Rohr. Use of snail traps for surveillance of schistosome shedding snails in rice fields and fragile ecosystems. Parasitology Research. March 2025.

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Michael B. Mahon, Alexandra Sack, O. Alejandro Aleuy, Carly Barbera, Ethan Brown, Heather Buelow, David J. Civitello, Jeremy M. Cohen, Luz de Wit, Meghan Forstchen, Fletcher W. Halliday, Patrick Heffernan, Sarah A. Knutie, Alexis Korotasz, Joanna G. Larson, Samantha L. Rumschlag, Emily Selland, Alexander Shepack, Nitin Vincent, Jason R. Rohr. Global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease. Nature. Accepted February 2024.

 

Kelsey L. Adams, Emily K. Selland, Bailey C. Willett, John W. Carew, Charles Vidoudez, Naresh Singh, Flaminia Catteruccia. Selection for insecticide resistance can promote Plasmodium falciparum infection in Anopheles. PLOS Pathogens. June 2023.

 

Irene Rojas-Núñez, Adriana Morales Gomez, Emily K. Selland, Theresa Oduol, Stephanie Wolf, Scott Palmer, Hussni Mohammed. Levels of serum Phosphorylated Neurofilament Heavy subunit in clinically healthy Standardbred horses. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science. March 2022.

 

Kelsey L. Adams, Daniel G. Abernathy, Bailey C. Willett, Emily K. Selland, Maurice A. Itoe, Flaminia Catteruccia. Wolbachia cifB induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the malaria mosquito vector. Nature Microbiology. November 2021.

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Awards

Eck Institute of Global Health Fellow (2025-Present)

Graduate Student Government Leadership & Service Award, Honorable Mention, University of Notre Dame (2025)

Best Poster Presentation, Global Health Day, University of Notre Dame (2025)

Science Graduate Fellow Award, University of Notre Dame (2024)

GLOBES Fellow (2022-Present)

NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2021-Present)