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ANDREA SWEI
San Francisco State University
722 Hensill Hall
San Francisco, CA 94132
Department of Biology
Phone: (415) 338-1753
e-mail: [email protected]
CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013-present Assistant Professor of Biology-San Francisco State University
2011-present Research Associate-Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, UC San Francisco
EDUCATION
2009
2000
University of California, Berkeley, PhD
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley, B.A.
Department of Integrative Biology with Honors, May 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-2012
Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow: UC San Francisco, Department of
Laboratory Medicine, San Francisco, CA. Investigating the pathogenicity of tickborne pathogens and developing diagnostic techniques for emerging diseases.
• Development of the first high-density pan-tick pathogen microarray
• Development of metagenomic analyses to identify pathogens and host
biomarkers in the largest longitudinal dataset of acute Lyme disease patients
• Identifying the etiological agent of the newly emerging tick-borne disease,
Southern Tick-Associated Rash illness (STARi) using microarray and deep
sequencing analyses
2009-2011
Postdoctoral Associate on NSF funded grant: UC Berkeley and Cary Institute of
Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY. Investigated the dynamics of Lyme disease
through mathematical models and genetic diagnostic analyses.
 Development of deterministic models of Lyme disease risk as measured by the
density of infected ticks
 Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses of the Lyme disease bacterium
2008-2009
Graduate Student Researcher on NSF Ecology of Infectious Disease (EID)
grant: UC Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology. Developed a 5-year NSF
EID grant and led the project in the field and lab.
 Designed protocols and experiments for field and lab experiments to study the
ecology of Lyme disease
 Oversaw all field and lab data collection and processing
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 Managed all personnel including lab assistants, undergraduates, and volunteers
 Responsible for data collection, molecular analysis, data analysis, and
interpretation and presentation of results
2005-2008
NSF Predoctoral Research Fellow: UC Berkeley, Department of Integrative
Biology. Developed a research project examining the impact of habitat
fragmentation from an invasive plant species on the dynamics of Lyme disease
ecology.
 Developed protocols for field and lab experiments to study the interaction of a
plant pathogen and a vector-borne zoonotic disease
 Designed a quantitative real-time PCR assay for the Lyme disease bacterium
PUBLICATIONS
Swei, A., R.S. Lane, V.L. Bowie, R.C.K. Bowie. In review. Comparative genetic diversity of
Lyme disease bacteria in ticks and their vertebrate hosts. Ticks and Tick-borne diseases.
Swei, A., Russell, B.J., Naccache, S., Kabre, B., Veeraraghaan, N., Pilgard, M., Johnson, B.J.B.,
Chiu, C.Y. 2013. The genome sequence of Lone Star virus, a highly divergent bunyavirus
found in the Amblyomma americanum tick. PlosOne 8(4): e62083.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062083
Swei, A., R.S. Ostfeld, R.S. Lane, C.J. Briggs. 2012. Impacts of an introduced forest pathogen on
risk of Lyme disease in California. Vector Borne Zoonotic Diseases 12(8): 623-632.
Swei, A., J.J.L. Rowley, D. Rödder, M.L.L. Diesmos, A.C. Diesmos, C.J. Briggs, R. Brown, T.T.
Cao, T.L. Cheng, R.A. Chong, B. Han, J.-M. Hero, H.D. Hoang, M.D. Kusrini, D.T.T.
Le, J.A. McGuire, M. Meegaskumbura, M.S. Min, D.G. Mulcahy, T. Neang, S.
Phimmachak, D.Q. Rao, N.M. Reeder, S.D. Schoville, N. Sivongxay, N. Srei, M. Stöck,
B.L. Stuart, L.S. Torres, D.T.A. Tran, , T.S. Tunstall, D. Vieites, V.T. Vredenburg. 2011.
Is chytridiomycosis an emerging infectious disease in Asia? PLoS ONE 6(8): e23179.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023179
Swei, A., C.J. Briggs, R.S. Lane, R.S. Ostfeld. 2011a. Impact of lizard removal on the abundance
and infection prevalence of a Lyme disease vector. Proceedings of the Royal Society B,
278 (1720): 2970-2978
*Faculty of 1000 recommended article
Swei, A., R. Meentemeyer, C.J. Briggs. 2011b. Influence of abiotic and environmental factors on
the density and infection prevalence of Ixodes pacificus (Acari:Ixodidae) with Borrelia
burgdorferi. Journal of Medical Entomology, 48 (1): 20-28.
Swei, A., Ostfeld, R.S., Lane, R.S., Briggs, C.J. 2011c. Effects of an invasive forest pathogen on
abundance of vertebrate hosts in a California Lyme disease focus. Oecologia, 166 (1): 91100.
Killilea, M. E., Swei, A., Lane, R.S., Briggs, C.J., and Ostfeld, R.S. 2008. Spatial dynamics of
Lyme disease: A review. EcoHealth, 5(2): 167-195.
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Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Cross, P.C., Briggs, C.J., Daugherty, M., Getz, W.M., Latto, J., Sanchez,
M.S., Smith, A.B., Swei, A. 2005. Should we expect population thresholds in wildlife
disease? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20 (9); 511-519.
Swei, A., Brylski, P.V., Spencer, W.D., Dodd, S.C., Patton, J.L. 2003. Hierarchical genetic
structure in fragmented populations of the little pocket mouse (Perognathus
longimembris) in Southern California. Conservation Genetics 4; 501-514.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
5/2011-current
Principal Investigator-QB3 award, Swartz foundation: “Improved Diagnostics for
Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease”, $200,000
2/2012-current
Principle Investigator-National Research Fund for Tick-borne diseases pilot
project grant: “Using Pan-Pathogen Microarrays and Deep Sequencing to Search
for the Cause of Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI)”, $50,000
10/2011-10/2012
Principle Investigator-Rufford Foundation Grant: “Conservation of montane
forest anurans in southeastern Peru”, $10,000
2011
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral fellowship, $45,000
2007, 2011 Burroughs Wellcome Travel Scholarship recipient, $2,000
2005
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, $90,000
2005
Graduate Researcher: National Science Foundation Ecology of Infectious
Diseases grant, $800,000
2005
American Society of Mammalogists, Grants in Aid of Research recipient, $1,000
2004
Sigma Xi, Grants in Aid of Research recipient, $1,000
2000
Received B.A. with honors from the department of Integrative Biology, UC
Berkeley.
2000
Undergraduate research honors thesis: Historic and ongoing population genetics
of the pacific pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris pacificus)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013
Disease Ecology – Instructor of record for developing new course of the ecology
of infectious diseases
2010-2011
Lecturer for UC Berkeley’s Fall Program for Freshman – The Biosphere
(ESPM 2) – Course instructor – Developed course curriculum and lectured a
freshman course for two terms
2007
Graduate Student Instructor: Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands
(IB158), Moorea French Polynesia research station, UC Berkeley – Key instructor
in a full-immersion, study abroad program.
2004-2005
Graduate Student Instructor: Natural History of the Vertebrates (IB104), UCB
2003-2004
Graduate Student Instructor: Biology-Field ecology section (Bio 1B), UCB
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
2014
Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Poster
presentation: “Human Transcriptome Profiling for the Diagnosis of Acute Lyme
Disease” Washington D.C.
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International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-borne Diseases,
Boston, MA-Oral presentation:”Development and validation of metagenomicsbased diagnostics for targeting Lyme disease and associated tick-borne diseases”
Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX-Oral presentation: “The dual-role of
lizards in the ecology of Lyme disease in the far-western United States”
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Santa Barbara, CA - Oral
presentation: “Community interactions in Lyme disease ecology: forests and hosts
as habitat islands”
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Principal Investigators meeting,
Madison, WI - Oral presentation: “Experimental removal of lizards from a Lyme
disease system”
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Principal Investigators meeting,
Atlantic City, NJ- Oral presentation: “Dual role of lizards in Lyme disease
ecology”
INVITED RESEARCH SEMINARS
2014
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Ecology, Evolution, and
Marine Biology: “Tick-borne diseases in ecological communities”
2013
Emory University, Department of Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution:
“Scaling from ecological communities to genomes: understanding emerging tickborne pathogens”
2013
California Academy of Sciences Seminar Series “Utilizing metagenomics in the
study of emerging tick-borne diseases”
2008
Stanford University, Department of Human Biology
2008
Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Reviewer for scientific journals including: American Naturalist, Journal of Theoretical Biology,
Herpetological Review, PlosOne, Ecology Letters