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Carol Uphoff Meteyer, DVM

Courtesy Associate Professor of Practice

Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: cum3@cornell.edu

Profile

Education

  • Residency in Comparative Pathology, University of Southern California and Los Angeles County Medical and Veterinary Services, 1984-1988
  • Internship in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, West Los Angeles Veterinary Medical Group, 1983-1984
  • DVM, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, 1979-1983
  • BS, University of Iowa, 1971-1975

Biography/Professional Experience

  • Courtesy Associate Professor of Practice, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, 2025-Present
  • Emeritus Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center, 2019-Present
  • Deputy Program Coordinator, Senior Science Advisor, other, U.S. Geological Headquarters: Environmental Health Contaminant Biology Program, 2012-2019
  • Research Pathologist, U.S. Geological lSurvey National Wildlife Health Center, 1992-2012
  • Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis, 1987-1992

Awards and Honors

  • USGS Exceptional Performance Awards: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
  • DOI Special Group Achievement Award for Amphibian Research: 2009
  • S.T.A.R. Award for superior achievement and contributions to USGS Headquarters: 2000
  • Teratology Society Nomination, James G. Wilson Publication Award for best paper for "Rear Limb Malformations in Free-Living Northern Leopard Frogs": 2000
  • USFWS Award for diagnostic legal support for USFWS investigations into mercury impacts on populations of Texas shorebirds: 1993
  • USFS Awards for amphibian disease and malformation research:  1994, 1996, 1997, 1999

Professional/Academic Affiliations

American College of Veterinary pathologists, 1988-Present

American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, 1989-2019

American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, 1992-2009

American Association of Avian Pathologists, 1983-2009

American Veterinary Medical Association, 1983-2010

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Meteyer CU, Boyles JG. (2025). Fungal chimera: A lethal mammalian fungus with invasion strategies of plant pathogens. Virulence, 16(1):1-10. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2024.2439497.
  2. Meteyer, C.U., Dutheil, J.Y., Keel, M.K., Boyles, J.G., Stukenbrock, E.H. (2022). Plant pathogens provide clues to the potential origin of bat white-nose syndrome Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Virulence, 13:(1):1020- 1031, DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2022.2082139
  3. Meteyer, C.U., Dutheil, J.Y., Keel, M.K., Boyles, J.G., Stukenbrock, E.H. (2022). Plant pathogens provide clues to the potential origin of bat white-nose syndrome Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Virulence, 13:(1):1020- 1031, DOI: 10.1080/21505594.2022.2082139
  4. White CL, Ip HS, Meteyer CU, Walsh DP, Hall JS, Carstensen M, Wolf PC. 2015. Spatial and temporal patterns of avian paramyxovirus-1 outbreaks in double-crested cormorants (phalacrocorax azurites) in the USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51 (1) pp. 101-112.
  5. Verant ML, Meteyer CU, Speakman JR, Cryan PM, Lorch JM, and Blehert DS. (2014). White-nose syndrome initiates a cascade of physiologic disturbances in the hibernating bat host. BMC Physiology, 14(10):1-10. DOI:10.1186/s12899-014-0010-4
  6. Ramirez P Jr, Dickerson K, Lindstrom J, Meteyer CU, Darrah S. 2014. Lapland Longspur Mortality at an Oil Well Drilling Rig Site, Laramie County, Wyoming. The Wildlife Society Bulletin, 39(1):165-168. DOI: 10.1002/wsb.495
  7. Work TM, and Meteyer CU. (2014). To understand coral disease, look at coral cells. Ecohealth, 11(4):610- 618. doi: 10.1007/s10393-014-0931-1
  8. Turner GG, Meteyer CU, Barton H, Gumbs JF, Reeder DM, Overton B, Bandouchova H, Bartonicka T, Martínková N, Pikula J, Zukal J, Blehert DS. (2014). Nonlethal screening of bat-wing skin with the use of ultraviolet fluorescence to detect lesions indicative of white-nose syndrome. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, DOI: 10.7589/2014- 03-058
  9. Falendysz EA, London o-Navas AM, Meteyer CU, Pussini N, Lopera JG, Osorio JE, Rocke TE. (2014). Evaluation of monkeypox virus infection of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) using in vivo bioluminescent imaging. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 50:524–536. DOI: 10.7589/2013-07-171
  10. Book Chapter: CU Meteyer, B Stading. 2013. Geomyces destructans; WNS Chapter in: Infectious Diseases of Concern to Captive and Free Ranging Animals in North America, 2nd ed. 2013. Gamble, K.C., and M.M. Clancy (eds).