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Bat Skin Microbiome
Dr. Lindsay Caesar
James Madison University
Dr. Diana Northup
University of New Mexico
We sampled bats at six sites across New Mexico and Arizona, and found ~6% could inhibit P. destructans (unpublished).
New species: Streptomyces corynorhini (Hamm et al. 2019)
We isolated and identified nearly 3,000 bacterial cultures collected from the fur and skin of 314 bats across 12 species at six sites across New Mexico and Arizona (unpublished).
We identified antifungal activity of members of the bat skin microbiome against Pseudogymnoascus destrucans, the cause of white-nose syndrome (Hamm et al. 2017).
New species: Streptomyces buecherae (Hamm et al. 2020) and its bioactive component nigericin (Clements et al. 2025)
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