Dr. Holly Ernest is a veterinarian, ecologist, and geneticist and directs the Wildlife and Ecology Unit of the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory. She obtained her D.V.M. from the Ohio State University, and then completed an internship in Medicine and Surgery before founding a veterinary hospital and working in clinical practice for 6 years. Dr. Ernest completed her PhD in Ecology with emphasis on wildlife ecological genetics at UC Davis.

Dr. Ernest's research, teaching, and service areas focus on ecological studies in genetics and wildlife population health, with emphasis on work that can be applied toward conservation and management. Conservation genetics, population genetics, disease ecology.  Particularly emphasis on free-ranging species of management concern in California, but interests extend globally. Threatened and endangered species. Carnivores (including mountain lions, bears, and sea otters), raptors (birds of prey: hawks and owls), corvids (magpies, crows, and relatives), hummingbirds, wild pigs, deer. Genetics of domestic ferrets with cancer. Please see our web page for details and updates - http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/wildlife/

North, Central, and South America. Hablo español un poco

Website: http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/wildlife