Kurt Galbreath, PhD

 Assistant Professor   

 
2119 New Science Facility
Office Phone (906) 227-1586
kgalbrea@nmu.edu

Education

2009. PhD – Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University “Of pikas and parasites: biogeography of an alpine host-parasite assemblage”

2002. MS – Wildlife Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks “Phylogeography of the tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus) in Beringia”

1997. BS – Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University

Research Interests

Evolution of parasites and their hosts in the northern latitudes.

Teaching

Parasitology
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

Selected Publications

2010 . Durette-Desset M-C, Galbreath K, and Hoberg E. Discovery of new Ohbayashinema spp. (Nematoda: Heligomosomoidea) in Ochotona princeps and O. cansus (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae) from western North America and Central Asia, with considerations of historical biogeography. Journal of Parasitology 96:569-579.

2010 . Galbreath K, Hafner D, Zamudio K, and Agnew K. Isolation and introgression in the Intermountain West: contrasting gene genealogies reveal the complex biogeographic history of the American pika (Ochotona princeps). Journal of Biogeography 37:344-362. (Featured on cover)

2009. Galbreath K, Hafner D, and Zamudio K. When cold is better: climate-driven elevation shifts yield complex patterns of diversification and demography in an alpine specialist (American pika, Ochotona princeps). Evolution 63:2848-2863. (Featured on cover)

2009. Hoberg E, Pilitt P, and Galbreath K. Why museums matter: a tale of pinworms (Oxyuroidea: Heteroxynematidae) among pikas (Ochotona princeps and O. collaris) in the American West. Journal of Parasitology 95:490-501.

2008 . Raoul F, Pleydell D, Quéré J-P, Vaniscotte A, Rieffel R, Takahashi K, Bernard N, Wang J, Dobigny T, Galbreath K, Giraudoux P. Small-mammal assemblage response to deforestation and afforestation in central China. Mammalia 72:320-332.

2005. Cook JA, Hoberg EP, Koehler A, Henttonen H, Wickström L, Haukisalmi V, Galbreath K, Chernyavski F, Dokuchaev N, Lahzuhtkin A, MacDonald SO, Hope A, Waltari E, Runck A, Veitch A, Popko R, Jenkins E, Kutz S, Eckerlin R. Beringia: Intercontinental exchange and diversification of high latitude mammals and their parasites during the Pliocene and Quaternary.  Mammal Study 30:S33-S44.