The first in-depth study of urban rats and rat-associated health risks in Canada.
Vancouver, Canada
Joined April 2012
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VanRatProject's @kaylee_byers is hosting @GenomeBC podcast Nice Genes! While the podcast is about what #genomics reveals about the world around us, it also includes a sprinkling of info about #rats and how we've studied them in #Vancouver #yvr. Link to Nice Genes! below 🐀🧬🔬🎙
Who took this photo? What is it? How did it change the world?
Join host @kaylee_byers & guest @heysciencesam as they chat girl boss Rosalind Franklin, Jurassic Park, Christmas (Island) rats & brains.
Find Nice Genes! wherever you get your podcasts or: link.chtbl.com/3PiYkcEI
What health risks do urban #rats pose to people? How might pest control impact those risks? How could rat movement determine where the disease-causing bacteria carried by rats are found? What can this teach us about managing rats? Learn more in this video about our findings
New study in @WildlifeDisease - In it we find that the distribution of #rats carrying the bacteria #Leptospira interrogans in #Vancouver was not associated with characteristics of the urban environment or measures of rat population density @ubcspph meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/…
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The #VanRatProject is part of the BC node of the @cwhcrcsf which is officially on twitter! Follow @cwhc_bc for more on our wildlife health research
For more on the contributions rats have made to humanity and how they became to be known as cultural villains, read this:
cbc.ca/1.5776900 (includes audio for part one in this series)
@mlynk @rodentologist @MichaelGVann @visualplague @kaylee_byers @nataliekofler
@VanRatProject member @kaylee_byers of @ubcspph and @ZoologyUBC discusses the role of #genetics to understand #rat movement and #pathogen spread. @ubcnews
"Rats are infamous for traveling with us across the globe and yet, until recently, there was very little information on how rats move within cities," "rat detective" @kaylee_byers writes. trib.al/U7tgdVd
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Cong🐀 to @VanRatProject member @kaylee_byers for her work on urban #rat movement #ecology and disease presented @wda2019!
Congrats to friend and colleague @UBC #phd student @kaylee_byers for winning an unprecedented 3 grad student awards @wda2019 for her work on wild urban #rats 🐀 with the @VanRatProject and @CWHCRCSF. #WDA2019
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Rats are a part of urban ecosystems. By focusing on rats as a part of the environment we will be better able to address rat infestations and rat-associated concerns in the long run. #rats #vancouver #pestcontrol
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VRP lead discusses the importance of reconsidering our approaches to rats @CWHCRCSF
Living with rats involves understanding the city as an ecosystem theconversation.com/living-w…
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While rats are known carriers of disease, their impacts on the psychological health of those living with them has been largely overlooked. This paper shares the feelings and experiences of those living with rats rdcu.be/bljiW
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Vancouver Rat Project member @kaylee_byers will be speaking this Monday about rats, their pathogens, and how human interventions can potentially affect rat-associated risks. There are few tickets left @pintofscienceCA
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How "trappable" are urban rats? Our newest study led by @kaylee_byers finds that in Vancouver trappability was greatest early in a trapping period, and that smaller, immature rats were more likely to re-enter traps than larger, mature rats. #rats #ecology frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
Differences in rat ecology by location can also affect pathogen carriage. E.g., our recent paper found that urban rats in Brazil are more likely to acquire the pathogen Leptospira as juveniles than are rats in Vancouver #rattus #leptospira #vanratproject frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
Our newest paper "Rats About Town: A Systematic Review of Rat Movement in Urban Ecosystems" demonstrates the importance of understanding local rat ecology to inform effective rat management strategies #rattus #vanratproject #rodentcontrol frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
Congrats to #vanratproject team member Michael Lee on their recent paper in Zoonoses and Public Health which documents intermittent carriage of MRSA by rats onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@VanRatProject team member @kaylee_byers is a co-author on a newly published article in @FrontEcolEvol lead by @maureenhmurray demonstrating that public rat complaints mirror rat abundance. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00…
We're excited about our open access article on #RATS in @FrontEcolEvol. In it we show that rat complaints in #Chicago are strongly correlated to rat abundance! Rat complaints are also highest in alleys with more garbage. @maureenhmurray @chicagotribune doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00…
Our newest paper "Beyond Zoonosis: Mental Health Impacts of Rat Exposure" is on the cover of the Journal of Environmental Health for November! #rats #VRP
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Do rats actively shed leptospires in their saliva? Our newest publication suggests "probably not." #rats #rattus #leptospira #vrp
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Another study out today from @VanRatProject "Effects of Culling on Leptospira interrogans Carriage by Rats" suggests that human interventions can potentially affect and even increase the prevalence of zoonotic pathogens within rat populations. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24…