In the News
January 2026 - 3rd year PhD Candidate Gracie Hedgpeth received the Student Research Award from the US Animal Vaccinology Research Coordination Network for her work on developing a treatment for Chytrid!
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May 2024, 2025, 2026 - Frog Night! Each May the Rohr Lab hosts "Frog Night" at Notre Dame, a community event where people can interact with frogs and learn about amphibian conservation. Interested in this year's Frog Night or other science community events? Fill out this form to be added to our email mailing list!
Past Frog Night event information and media coverage from Notre Dame's Environmental Humanities Initiative:
July 2024 - Nature podcast "Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal" featuring Sidy Bakhoum and Jason Rohr
​June 2019 - Rumschlag et. al 2019. Ecology Letters. Pesticides alter green frog (Lithobates clamitans) exposure and susceptibility to parasites. Article featured on journal issue cover (Photo by Jeremy Cohen):
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August 2018 - Rohr et. al 2018. Ecology Letters. The complex drivers of thermal acclimation and breadth in ectotherms. Article featured on journal issue cover (Photo by Jeremy Cohen):
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February 2018 - Cohen et al. 2018. Nature Climate Change. A global synthesis of phenological responses to climate change.
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January 2017 - Cohen et. al 2017. Ecology Letters. The thermal mismatch hypothesis explains host susceptibility to an emerging infectious disease. Article featured on journal issue cover (Photo by Jeremy Cohen).
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August 2016 - Young et al. 2016. Applied & Environmental Microbiology. trong>Vancomycin resistant enterococci and changes in bacterial community structure associated with a residential sewage spill.
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June 2016 - Cohen et al. 2016. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions.
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September 9 2015 - Featured story in Tampa Tribune
June 2015 - Civitello et al. 2015. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America "Biodiversity inhibits parasites: Broad evidence for the dilution effect" featured in:
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February 2015 - Rohr, J.R. et al. 2015. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America. "Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission" featured in:
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January 2015 - Douglas, M.R., Rohr, J.R., Tooker, J.F. 2015. Journal of Applied Ecology"Neonicotinoid insecticide travels through a soil food chain, disrupting biocontrol of non-target pests and decreasing soybean yield" featured in:
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