{"id":412,"date":"2025-10-21T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:46:30","slug":"dave-daversa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/people\/dave-daversa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Daversa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-jgx60-b6646c0802ae4f62f17f83f881fd2082 entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right'  >\n<div class='flex_cell av-f9au0-c8bc312b7259412b52c1d59e37e2f391 av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-first '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mh1feof9-37de4dbda0e903b522b285f70f29d743\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mh1feof9-37de4dbda0e903b522b285f70f29d743 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mh1feof9-37de4dbda0e903b522b285f70f29d743 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mh1feof9-37de4dbda0e903b522b285f70f29d743 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-408 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-408 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-300x300.jpg\" alt='' title='Dave'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-1030x1030.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-1500x1500.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave-705x705.jpg 705w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/318\/2025\/10\/Dave.jpg 1880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class='flex_cell av-77xe8-b6d88719863ec4354708798bea439cda av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-last '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mh1fr8i2-4bd7215944a0d4404913a8436dac5f09 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Title<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Project Scientist &amp; Lecturer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ddaversa@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>ddaversa@ioes.ucla.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;text-decoration: none\" href=\"davedaversa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">davedaversa.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;text-decoration: none\" href=\"ioes.ucla.edu\/lakretz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ioes.ucla.edu\/lakretz\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id='after_grid_row_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-412'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mh0ua3h2-dfe5df38cd3335fb6a426db9fd368e50 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\n<p>My research investigates the sublethal effects of pathogens. Beyond causing lethal diseases, pathogens are sources of stress: they elicit a range of sublethal, yet costly behavioral and physiological changes in hosts that can progressively degrade health and fitness. How do pathogen sublethal effects factor into disease dynamics and the resilience of host populations to pathogen invasions?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have been exploring this question through field, experimental, and genomics research on amphibians and the fungal pathogen that threatens them, <em>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis<\/em> (<em>Bd<\/em>). My field and experimental work with newts has documented sublethal effects of <em>Bd<\/em> on newt habitat use, and studying endangered Yosemite toads (<em>Anaxyrus canorus<\/em>) has produced evidence that <em>Bd<\/em> is a source of early life stress. My current research investigates epigenetic changes associated with sublethal stress to better understand its downstream impacts to individual and population health.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mh1fso8m-5d86a6d3ad72038720d97ef6b48f513f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4>Publications<\/h4>\n<p>A complete list can be found on my <a style=\"color: #ff6600;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Ws4XfWoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">google scholar page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":0,"parent":334,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-412","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/412\/revisions\/517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-lloydsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}