Lynn B. Martin
Dr Lynn B. (Marty) Martin is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida where he conducts research in ecological physiology, behavioral endocrinology and immunology, and teaches Physiological Ecology, Disease Biology, Evolutionary Medicine, and various other classes. Currently, his main research endeavors center on i) the ecology and evolution of homeostatic systems, ii) how environmental stressors affect zoonotic disease cycles, and iii) how physiological and behavioral traits mediate species’ invasiveness.
His MS degree involved research on the community ecology of woodpeckers, under the supervision of Charles Blem at Virginia Commonwealth University. For his PhD, his interests shifted to the then-emerging field of ecoimmunology, and he studied under Martin Wikelski at Princeton University. His dissertation dealt with the nexus between life history and physiology in songbirds. Thereafter, he undertook postdoctoral research at The Ohio State University where he studied under Randy Nelson and worked on endocrine–immune interactions in Peromyscus mice. He is fortunate to have been awarded the Ned Johnson and George Bartholomew Young Investigator Awards (respectively, from the American Ornithologists Union in 2007 and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in 2009), is an active member on the Fulbright Specialist roster, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Disease-Related Publications
Brace, AJ, M LaJeunesse, JS Adelman, DR Ardia, DM Hawley, K Buchanan, JE Fair, J Grindstaff, KD Matson, and LB Martin. 2017. Costs of immune response are related to body mass and life history. Journal of Experimental Zoology A, in press.
Gervasi, SS, SC Burgan, E Hofmeister, TR Unnasch, and LB Martin. 2017. Stress hormones predict a host superspreader phenotype in the West Nile virus system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 284: 20171090.
Martin, LB, HJ Kilvitis, AJ Brace, L Cooper, MF Haussmann, A Mutati, V Fasanello, S O'Brien, and DR Ardia. 2017. Costs of immunity and their role in the range expansion of the house sparrow in Kenya. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2228-2235.
Coon, CAC, L Garcia-Longoria, LB Martin, S Magallanes, F de Lope, and A Marzal. 2016. Malaria infection negatively affects feather growth rate in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Journal of Avian Biology doi: 10.1111/jav.00942.
Ezenwa, V, EA Archie, ME Craft, DM Hawley, LB Martin, J Moore and L White. 2016. Host behavior-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behavior and disease ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 283 20153078 (invited).
Gervasi, SS, SC Burgan, N Burkett-Cadena, AW Schrey, H Hassan, TR Unnasch, and LB Martin. 2016. Host stress hormones increase vector preference, feeding success, and subsequent productivity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1278.
Martin, LB, SC Burgan, JS Adelman, and SS Gervasi. 2016. Host competence: an organismal trait to integrate immunology and epidemiology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56: 1225-1237(invited).
Barron, DG, SS Gervasi, JN Pruitt, and LB Martin. 2015. Behavioral competence: how host behaviors can interact to influence parasite transmission risk. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 6: 35-40.
Brace, AJ, S Sheikali, and LB Martin. 2015. Highway to the danger zone: exposure-dependent costs of immunity in a vertebrate ectotherm. Functional Ecology 29: 924-930.
Gervasi, SS, DJ Civitello, HJ Kilvitis, and LB Martin. 2015. The context of host competence: a role for plasticity in host-parasite dynamics. Trends in Parasitology 31: 419-425.
Hellgren, O, C Atkinson, S Bensch, T Albayrak, D Dimitrov, J Ewen, KS Kim, MR Lima, LB Martin, V Palinauskas, RE Ricklefs, R Seghal, G Valkiunas, Y Tsuda, and A Marzal. 2015. Global phylogeography of the invasive avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium relictum, based on MSP1 allelic diversity. Ecography 38: 001-009.
Brock, PM, CC Murdock, and LB Martin. 2014. A history of ecoimmunology and its integration with disease ecology. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 54; 353-362.
Coon, CAC, AJ Brace, SR McWilliams, MD McCue, and LB Martin. Introduced and native congeners use different resource strategies to maintain performance during infections. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87: 559-567.
Coon, CAC, and LB Martin. 2014. Patterns of haemosporidian prevalence along a range expansion in introduced Kenyan House Sparrow (Passer domesticus). Journal of Avian Biology 45: 34-42.
Martin, LB, RK Boughton, and DR Ardia. 2014. A new division of ecoimmunology and disease ecology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54: 338-339.
Martin, LB, and M Boruta. 2014. The impacts of urbanization on avian disease transmission and emergence. In Avian Urban Ecology. D Gil and H Brumm, eds.
Martin, LB, CAC Coon, AL Liebl, and AW Schrey. 2014. Surveillance for microbes and range expansion in house sparrows. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences 281: 20132690.
Ostfeld, RS, T Levi, A Jolles, LB Martin, PR Hosseini, and F Keesing. 2014. Life history and demographic drivers of reservoir competence for three tick-borne zoonotic pathogens. PLOS One DOI: 10.137/journal.pone.0107387
