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

Staff Member


Samantha Straus

Sam Straus

Fisheries Researcher
Email: sstraus@uwsp.edu

Biography

Dr. Straus joined the Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Unit in 2023 to use population genomic techniques to understand how supplemental controls of sea lamprey influence populations of this invasive parasite.

Presentations Presentation Date
Straus, Fong, Scribner, Brenden, Robinson, Johnson, Homola. September 2024. Developing a GT-seq microhaplotype panel to enable genetic monitoring of sea lamprey. September 2024
Straus, Fong, Homola, Scribner, Johnson, Brenden, and Robinson. January 2024. Estimating the number of spawning sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) within streams using genetic pedigree reconstruction. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. Sioux Falls, South Dakota January 2024
Homola, J.J., A. Luzzio, M. Peacock, and S. Straus. September 2024.<b> </b>Highlighting the cutting edge: Latest developments in conservation genomics. Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Honolulu, Hawaii. September 2024