Matthew Buchholz
Credentials: Michigan State University
Position title: Postdoc
Email: buchho50@msu.edu

Dr. Matthew Buchholz is a post-doctoral research associate at Michigan State University in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. His research interests include the management of wildlife diseases at the population scale and other disease and population ecology questions in wildlife. He has previously worked on community ecology of ticks, small mammals, and the Borrelia burgdorferi in Kentucky and the ecology of free ranging exotic invasive axis deer in Texas. At MSU, Matthew will be leading the MCE-VBD deer targeted tick control project. The project will seek to develop a protocol to deliver an anti-tick drug to deer using a drug delivery unit distributed in city parks in East Lansing, Michigan. The goal of this project is to use East Lansing as a model city to demonstrate a technique that may be used to reduce tick occurrence on deer to in turn reduce the risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases for humans in an urban/suburban environment.