Laura Grogan, PhD

Peer-reviewed scientific journal articles

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2020

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• Flies, A. S. and Wild Comparative Immunology Consortium (inclu. Grogan, L. F.)                                                                        (2020) Rewilding Immunology. Science 369(6499):37-38 (link) (IF 41.063). 

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• Brannelly, L. A., Scheele, B. C., Grogan, L. F. (in press) Disease and the endangered alpine tree frog: bridging research, conservation and management. Book chapter in Strategies for Conservation Success in Herpetology. 

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• Brannelly, L., McCallum, H., Grogan, L., Briggs, C., Ribas, M., Hollanders, M., Sasso, T., Familiar Lopez, M., Newell, D., Kilpatrick, A. M. (in review) Mechanisms underlying host persistence following disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies. Ecology Letters (IF 8.699). 

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• Kerlin, D. H., Grogan, L. F., McCallum, H. I. (in review) Seasonal dynamics in records of koalas arriving to care facilities with signs of disease in Southeast Queensland. Wildlife Research.​

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2019

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• Martin, L. B., Addison, B., Bean, A. G. D., Buchanan, K. L., Crino, O. L., Eastwood, J. R., Flies, A. S., Hamede, R., Hill, G. E., Klaassen, M., Koch, R. E., Martens, J. M., Napolitano, C., Narayan, E. J., Peacock, L., Peel, A. J., Peters, A., Raven, N., Risely, A., Roast, M. J., Rollins, L. A., Ruiz-Aravena, M., Selechnik, D., Stokes, H. S., Ujvari, B., Grogan, L. F. (accepted 14 Dec, 2018) Extreme competence: keystone hosts of infections. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (IF 15.938) (link). ​

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• Claytor, S. C., Gummer, J., Grogan L., Skerratt, L., Webb, R., Brannelly, L., Berger, L., Roberts, A. (Early view) Susceptibility of frogs to chytridiomycosis correlates with increased levels of immunomodulatory serotonin in the skin. Cellular Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.13089 (link) (IF 4.410).​​

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2018

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• Grogan, L. F., Robert, J., Berger, L., Skerratt, L. F., Scheele, B. C., Castley, J. G., Newell, D. A., McCallum, H. I. (2018) Review of the amphibian immune response to chytridiomycosis, and future directions. Frontiers in Immunology, 9:2536, doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2018.02536 (link) (IF 5.511).

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• Grogan, L. F., Skerratt, L. F., Berger, L., Cashins, S. D., Trengove, R. D., Gummer, J. P. A. (2018) Chytridiomycosis causes catastrophic organism-wide metabolic dysregulation including profound failure of cellular energy pathways. Scientific Reports, 8:8188, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26427-z.

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• Grogan, L. F., Cashins, S. D., Skerratt, L. F., Berger, L., McFadden, M. S., Harlow, P., Hunter, D. A., Scheele, B. C., Mulvenna, J. (2018) Evolution of resistance to chytridiomycosis is associated with a robust early immune response. Molecular Ecology, doi:10.1111/MEC.14493

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• ​​Grogan, L. F., Mulvenna, J., Gummer, J. P. A., Scheele, B. C., Berger, L., Cashins, S. D., McFadden, M. S., Harlow, P., Hunter, D. A., Trengove, R. D., Skerratt, L. F. (2018) Survival, gene and metabolite responses of Litoria verreauxii alpina frogs to fungal disease chytridiomycosis. Scientific Data, doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.33.

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• Grogan, L. F., Peel, A. J., Kerlin, D., Ellis, W., Jones, D., Hero, J.-M., McCallum, H. (2018) Is disease a major causal factor in declines? An evidence framework and case study on koala chlamydiosis. Biological Conservation, 221:334-344.

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• ​Martel, A., Pasmans, F., Fisher, M.C., Grogan, L.F., Skerratt, L.F., Berger, L. (2018) Chytridiomycosis, in Seyedmousavi, de Hoog, Guillot, and Verweij (editors) Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals. Springer publishing, Switzerland.

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2017

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• Grogan, L. F., Jones, D., Hero, J.-M., Ellis, W., Kerlin, D., McCallum, H. (2017) Current trends and future directions in koala chlamydial disease research. Biological Conservation 215:179-188.

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• Preece, N. D., Abell, S. E., Grogan, L., Wayne, A., Skerratt, L. F., van Oosterzee, P., Shima, A. L., Daszak, P., Field, H., Reiss, A., Berger, L., Rymer, T. L., Fisher, D. O., Lawes, M. J., Laurance, S. G., McCallum, H., Esson, C., Epstein, J. H. (2017) A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery. Biological Conservation 214:136-146.

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• Scheele, B. C., Skerratt, L. F., Grogan, L. F., Hunter, D. A., Clemann, N., McFadden, M., Newell, D., Hoskin, C. J., Gillespie, G. R., Heard, G. W., Brannelly, L., Roberts, A. A., Berger, L. (2017) After the epidemic: Ongoing declines, stabilizations and recoveries in amphibians afflicted by chytridiomycosis. Biological Conservation 206:37–46.​​

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2016

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• Grogan, L. F., Phillott, A. D., Scheele, B. C., Berger, L., Cashins, S. D., Bell, S. C., Puschendorf, R., and Skerratt, L. F. (2016). Endemicity of chytridiomycosis features pathogen overdispersion. Journal of Animal Ecology 85(3):806-16; doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12500) (link). (corresponding author)

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2015

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• Bataille, A., Cashins, S., Grogan, L., Skerratt, L., Hunter, D., McFaddan, M., Scheele, B., Brannelly, L., Macris, A., Harlow, P., Bell, S., Berger, L., Waldman, B. (2015). Susceptibility of amphibians to chytridiomycosis is associated with MHC class II conformation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20143127. 

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2014

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• Grogan, L. F., Berger, L., Rose, K., Grillo, V., Cashins, S. D., Skerratt, L. F. (2014). Surveillance for emerging biodiversity diseases of wildlife. PLoS Pathogens, 10(5):e1004015. (corresponding author)

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• Scheele, B. C., Hunter, D., Grogan, L., Berger, L., Kolby, J., McFadden, M., Marantelli, G., Skerratt, L., Driscoll, D. (2014) Interventions for reducing extinction risk in chytridiomycosis-threatened amphibians. Conservation Biology 28(5):1195-1205.

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2013

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• Cashins, S. D., L. F. Grogan, M. McFadden, D. Hunter, P. S. Harlow, L. Berger and L. F. Skerratt. (2013). Prior infection does not improve survival against the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis. PLOS One 8: 7.

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• Phillott, A. D., L. F. Grogan, S. D. Cashins, K. R. McDonald, L. Berger and L. F. Skerratt. (2013). Chytridiomycosis and seasonal mortality of tropical stream-associated frogs 15 years after introduction of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Conservation Biology 27:1058-1068. (corresponding author - I performed the data analysis and wrote the paper)

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2010

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• Piermarini, P.M., Grogan, L.F., Lau, K., Wang, L., Beyenbach, K.W. (2010). A SLC4-like anion exchanger from renal tubules of the mosquito (Aedes aegypti): evidence for a novel role of stellate cells in diuretic fluid secretion, Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 298:R642-R660.

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Other publications or outputs

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• SpectralWorks Ltd. (2017) Using AnalyzerPro for Metabolomics. Application Note for mass spectrometry analysis. Accessed online: http://www.spectralworks.net/Downloads/FrogDataTutorial.pdf (21 July, 2017). (This software tutorial used my alpine tree frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) tissue samples to demonstrate the tutorial methodologies; my contribution is acknowledged on page 15). 

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• Piermarini, PM, Grogan, LF, Wang, L, Beyenbach, KW (2009) The other half of the insect SLC4 family: a Cl/HCO3 anion exchanger from mosquito renal tubules. The FASEB Journal, 23(1_MeetingAbstracts):800.4.

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Recent professional presentations & seminars

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• Grogan, L. F. (6 January, 2020) Tolerance and resistance in defence against amphibian chytridiomycosis. Amphibian Susceptibility in a Changing World symposium at the 9th World Congress of Herpetology, Dunedin, New Zealand. 

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• Grogan, L. F. (1 October, 2019) Dynamic models support the use of combination strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis, Wildlife Disease Association Australasia Section Conference, Little Swanport, Tasmania. 

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• Higgins, D., Grogan, L. F., Legione, A. (18 July, 2019) Koalas and Chlamydia. Wildlife Health Management workshop: Responses to wildlife diseases, Werribee, Victoria.

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• Grogan, L. F., Skerratt, L. F., Berger, L., Cashins, S. D., Trengove, R. D., Gummer, J. P. A. (11 December, 2018) Chytridiomycosis causes catastrophic organism-wide metabolic dysregulation including profound failure of cellular energy pathways. The Australian Society for Herpetologists annual meeting, Brisbane, Queensland.

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• Grogan, L. F. (26 November, 2018) Natural history of disease is central to investigating wildlife disease dynamics: examples from koala chlamydiosis. Parasite Ecology in the Anthropocene symposium of the Ecological Society of Australia annual conference, 2018, Brisbane, Queensland.

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• Grogan, L. F., Skerratt, L. F., Berger, L., Cashins, S. D., Trengove, R. D., Gummer, J. P. A. (28 October, 2018)Chytridiomycosis causes catastrophic organism-wide metabolic dysregulation including profound failure of cellular energy pathways. Arizona Amphibian Disease Meeting, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. 

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• Grogan, L. F. (23 April, 2018) Frog chytrid fungus & host competence. Invited presentation at the Deakin Host Competence workshop, Geelong campus, Deakin University, Victoria. 

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• Grogan, L. F., Kerlin, D., Peel, A. J., Ellis, W., Hero, J.-M., Jones, D., McCallum, H. (20 June, 2017) Risk posed by disease to koalas? Seminar to the Koala Expert Panel of the Koala Research Grants Program (Department of Environment and Heritage Protection) concerning our research progress and outputs, 400 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000.  ​

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• Grogan, L. F., Kerlin, D., Peel, A. J., Ellis, W., Hero, J.-M., Jones, D., McCallum, H. (28 April, 2017) Is chlamydiosis causing koala declines? Lunchbox Seminar to the Environmental Futures Research Institute and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus. 

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• Grogan, L. F., Kerlin, D., Ellis, W., Hero, J.-M., Jones, D., McCallum, H. (28 November, 2016) Challenges, biases, and future directions in koala chlamydial disease research. 2016 Wildlife Disease Association Australasian Section Annual Conference, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand. 

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• Grogan, L. F. (4 October, 2016) Careers in Science - A personal perspective. A seminar presented to year 11 Biology students at Cavendish Road State High School in Holland Park, QLD. ​

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