Research in the Gillespie Lab focuses on interactions among anthropogenic environmental change; biodiversity; and the ecology and emergence of pathogens of people, wildlife, and domestic animals. We take an integrative interdisciplinary approach in our active research projects in Africa (Gabon, Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda) and Latin America (Argentina and Mexico) and collaborate extensively with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Publications

27.Rwego IB, Isabirye-Basuta, G., Gillespie, T. R., Goldberg, T. L. (in press) Gastrointestinal bacterial transmission among humans, mountain gorillas, and domestic livestock in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Conservation Biology. pdf coming soon!

26. Hasegawa H, Greiner EC, and Gillespie TR. (in press) Morphology of Enterobius (Colobenterobius) Colobis Vuylsteke, 1964 (Nematoda: Oxyuridae: Enterobiinae) collected from an ashy red colobus, Procolobus rufomitratus trphrosceles (Elliot, 1907) (Primates: Cercopithecidae: Colobinae) in Uganda. J. of Parasitology. pdf coming soon!

25.Goldberg TL, Gillespie, T. R., Rwego, I. B., Estoff, E. L., and Chapman, C. A. (in press) Anthropogenic disturbance promotes bacterial transmission among primates, humans, and livestock across a fragmented forest landscape. Emerging Infectious Diseases. pdf coming soon!

24. Kowaleswski, M., and Gillespie, T.R. (In Press)  Ecological & anthropogenic influences on patterns of parasitism in free-ranging primates: a meta-analysis of the genus Alouatta. P. Garber, A. Estrada, J.C. Bicca-Marques, E. Heymann, amd K. Strier (eds.). South American Primates:  Testing New Theories in the Study of Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. Springer Press. pdf coming soon!

23. Goldberg, T.L., T.R. Gillespie, and I.B. Rwego. (In Press) Health and disease in the people, primates, and domestic animals of Kibale National Park: Implications for conservation. R. Wrangham (ed.). Kibale Forest: A Model For Exploring the Relationship Between Long Term Research and Conservation. Cambridge Unviersity Press. pdf coming soon!

22.Gillespie, T.R.  (2008) 98% Human, 91% Extinct. Conservation Biology, 22:224-225. view pdf

21. Gillespie, T.R. and C.A. Chapman. (2008) Forest fragmentation, the decline of an endangered primate, and changes in host-parasite interactions relative to an unfragmented forest. American Journal of Primatology. 70:222-230. view pdf

20.Salzer, J.S., Rwego. I.B., Goldberg, T.L., Kuhlenschmidt, M.S., and Gillespie, T.R. (2007) Giardia sp. and Cryptosporidium sp. infections in primates in fragmented and undisturbed forest in western Uganda. Journal of Parasitology. 93(2): 439-440. view pdf

19. Goldberg TL, Gillespie TR, et al. (2007) Patterns of gastrointestinal bacterial exchange between chimpanzees and humans involved in research and tourism in western Uganda.  Biological Conservation. 135: 527-533.view pdf

18. Chapman, C.A., L. Naughton-Treves, M.J. Lawes, M.D. Wasserman, and T.R. Gillespie. (2007)  The conservation value of forest fragments: explanations for population decline of the colobus of western Uganda. International Journal of Primatology. 28(3): 513-528. view pdf

17. Gillespie, T.R. and C.A. Chapman.(2006) Forest fragment attributes predict parasite infection dynamics in primate metapopulations. Conservation Biology. 20:441–448. view pdf

16. Gillespie, T.R. (2006) Non-invasive assessment of gastro-intestinal parasite infections in free-ranging primates. International Journal of Primatology 27:1129-1143. view pdf

15. Goldberg, T.L., Gillespie, T.R., Singer, R.S. (2006) Optimization of analytic parameters for inferring relationships among Esherichia coli isolates from repetitive-element PCR by maximizing correspondence with multilocus sequence typing data. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72 (9): 6049-6052. view pdf

14. Chapman, C.A., M.D. Wasserman, T.R. Gillespie, M.L. Speirs, M.J. Lawes, and T.E. Ziegler.(2006) Do nutrition, parasitism, and stress have synergistic effects on red colobus populations living in forest fragments? American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 131: 525-534. view pdf

13. Goldberg, T.L., T.R. Gillespie, I.B. Rwego, and C. Kaganzi.(2006)Killing of an owl (Galucidium perlatum) by a red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus tephrosceles). American Journal of Primatology. 68: 1007-1011. view pdf

12. Chapman, C.A., T.R. Gillespie, M. Speirs, T. Holland, and K. Austad. (2006)  Life on the edge: A comparison of primate gastrointestinal parasites from forest edge and interior groups.  American Journal of Primatology. 68:397–409. view pdf

11. Chapman, C.A., M.D. Wasserman, and T.R. Gillespie.(2006) Behavioural patterns of colobus in logged and unlogged forests: The conservation value of harvested forests. V. Reynolds, H. Notman, and N. Newton-Fisher (eds.). Primates of Uganda. view pdf

10. Gillespie, T.R., C.A. Chapman, and E.C. Greiner. (2005) Effects of logging on gastrointestinal parasite infections and infection risk in African primate populations. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:699-707. view pdf

9. Gillespie, T.R., E.C. Greiner, and C.A. Chapman. (2005) Gastrointestinal parasites of the colobus monkeys of Uganda. Journal of Parasitology 91:569-573. view pdf

8. Chapman, C.A., T.R. Gillespie, and T.L. Goldberg. (2005) Primates and the ecology or their infectious diseases: how will anthropogenic change affect host-parasite interactions? Evolutionary Anthropology 14:134–144. view pdf

7. Chapman, C.A., T.R. Gillespie, and M. Speirs. (2005) Parasite prevalence and richness in sympatric colobines: effects of host density. American Journal of Primatology 67:259-266. view pdf

6. Gillespie, T.R., E.C. Greiner, and C.A. Chapman. (2004) Gastrointestinal parasites of the guenons of western Uganda. Journal of Parasitology 90: 1356-1360. view pdf

5. Chapman, C.A., M.J. Lawes, L. Naughton-Treves, and T.R. Gillespie. (2003) Primate survival in community-owned forest fragments: Are metapopulation models useful amidst intensive use? In: L.K. Marsh (ed.) Primates in Fragments: Ecology and Conservation. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. view pdf

4. Chapman, CA, L.J. Chapman, and T.R. Gillespie. (2002) Scale issues in the study of primate foraging: red colobus of Kibale National Park. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117: 349-363. view pdf

3. Gillespie, T.R., and Chapman, C.A. (2001) Determinants of group size in the red colobus monkey (Procolobus badius): An evaluation of the generality of the ecological-constraints model. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50:329-338. view pdf

2. Chapman, C.A., S.R. Balcomb, T.R. Gillespie, J.P. Skorupa, and T.T. Struhsaker. (2000) Long-term effects of logging on primates in Kibale National Park, Uganda: A 28 year comparison. Conservation Biology 14:207-217. view pdf

1. Hodges, B.L., M.J. Gagnon, T.R. Gillespie, J.R. Breneisen, D.F. O’Leary, S. Hara, and R.M. Quock.(1994) Antagonism of nitrous oxide antinociception in the rat hot plate test by site-specific n- and e- opioid  receptor blockade.  Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 269: 596-600. view pdf