Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Jessie Edson

Genetics Laboratory Manager
Email: jee5023@psu.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Miller-Butterworth, C. M., D. R. Diefenbach, J. E. Edson, L. A. Hansen, J. D. Jordan, T. M. Gingery, and A. L. Russell. 2021. Demography and loss of genetic diversity in two insular populations of the bobcat (Lynx rufus). Global Ecology and Conservation 26:e01547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01457 | Abstract | Download January 2021
Fameli, A, J. Edson, J.E. Banfield, C.S. Rosenberry, W.D. Walter. Variability in prion protein genotypes by spatial unit to inform susceptibility to chronic wasting disease. Prion 16 (1):254–264. | Abstract October 2022
Edson, J., J. Brown, W.L. Miller, and W. D. Walter. 2021. Comparison of sample types from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for DNA extraction and analyses. Scientific Reports 11, 10003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89390-2 | Abstract May 2021
Project Completion Date
Landscape genetics of white-tailed deer to assess population structure for surveillance of chronic wasting disease June 2017
Landscape Genetics of white-tailed deer in Minnesota September 2022
Linking Genetics to Movements of White-tailed deer to Assist Surveillance for CWD Epidemiology August 2023
Presentations Presentation Date
Walter, W.D., C.S. Rosenberry, A. Fameli, and J. Edson. 2022. Associations of white-tailed deer with and without chronic wasting disease. Wildlife Disease Association Meeting, Madison, WI, 23-29 July 2022 July 2022
Walter, W.D., C.S. Rosenberry, A. Fameli, and J. Edson. 2022. Associations of white-tailed deer with and without chronic wasting disease. 6- 10 November 2022, The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. November 2022
Miller-Butterworth, C., L. Hansen, D. Hoffman, A. Russell, J. Edson, and D. R. Diefenbach. Population genetics of two contrasting island populations of bobcats. The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, 7-11 October 2018, Cleveland, OH, USA> October 2018