Jeffrey Lorch
Credentials: National Wildlife Health Center and Pathobiological Department
Position title: Investigating and diagnosing wildlife mortality events and studying emerging wildlife diseases
Email: jlorch@usgs.gov
Jeff Lorch is a Microbiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center. He received bachelor degrees in Bacteriology and Wildlife Ecology and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Environmental Toxicology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since joining the USGS, Dr. Lorch has devoted his career to investigating and diagnosing wildlife mortality events and studying emerging wildlife diseases. Presently, his work focuses on disease ecology and management of bat white-nose syndrome and snake fungal disease, surveillance for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (the fungus that causes salamander chytridiomycosis), and development of molecular methods for detection of wildlife pathogens.