First Steps Toward a National Strategic Plan for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
1. Bsal National Strategic Plan:
Responding to a Continental Threat
PARC National Disease Task Team
University of Tennessee
Center for Wildlife Health
Matthew J. Gray
F. Pasmans, Ghent Univ.
Robertville, Belgium
2. USGS Bsal “National Response” Meeting
John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis & Synthesis
23-25
June 2015
Mike Adams
Evan Grant
Erin Muths
Stefano Canessa
Rachel Katz
https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/
3. USGS Bsal “National Response” Meeting
30 Scientists
18 Gov’t Agencies, 11 Universities, and
4 International Scientists
7. Surveillance Working Group
Chair: Mike Adams, USGS
Email: mjadams@usgs.gov
Develop standardized protocols for
surveillance (e.g., n, sample design) in
captive & wild populations.
List of priority ports & industries
(captive), priority regions (wild), and
priority species (captive & wild).
9. Response Working Group
Chair: Priya Nanjappa, AFWA & PARC
Email: pnanjappa@fishwildlife.org
Identify actions that occur if positive
cases of Bsal infection or salamander
chytridiomycosis are confirmed.
Develop
Guidelines
State/Provincial
Actions Plans
Following WNS Model
10. Research Working Group
Chair: Reid Harris, James Madison University
Email: harrisrn@jmu.edu
Identify priority research areas for Bsal,
encourage collaboration, and share findings
with working groups and the public quickly.
• Containment
• Species Susceptibility
• Transmission Pathways
• Detection and Diagnosis
Testing Susceptibility
• Priority Species List
• Standardized Procedures
for Challenges
• Biosecurity Risk
Top Research Directions
11. Database Working Group
Chair: Dede Olson, USDA Forest Service
Email: dedeolson@fs.fed.us
Develop and maintain a database for Bsal
surveillance, monitoring, and research data.
https://mantle.io/grrs
http://amphibiaweb.org/chytrid/Bsal.html
12. Outreach Working Group
Chair: Joe Mendelson, Zoo Atlanta
Email: jmendelson@zooatlanta.org
Produce outreach communication materials
(e.g., fact sheets, press releases, briefs), and
help organize Bsal planning meetings as
requested.
http://www.parcplace.org/parcplace/res
ources/disease-task-team.html
Interact with PARC & its Disease Task Teams
14. Decision Support Working Group
Chair: Evan Grant, USGS
Email: ehgrant@usgs.gov
Produce decision tree models that allow other
working groups to make objective-based
decisions given the available information.