Skylar Hopkins
Bio
Dr. Skylar Hopkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Ecology and the Global Change and Human Well-being cluster at NC State University, and she leads the IUCN WCPA Task Force on Protected Areas and One Health. Dr. Hopkins has many research interests, including finding and evaluating “win-win” solutions that simultaneously reduce human infectious disease burdens and advance conservation goals. To this end, she has several collaborations with NGOs and local and Indigenous communities, including an ongoing project to understand how health and livelihood support impact communities and forest loss in protected areas in Indonesian Borneo. Dr. Hopkins’ main area of expertise is parasite and disease ecology, and she has co-authored a textbook on Emerging Zoonotic and Wildlife Pathogens.
Publications
- Paracapillaria (Ophidiocapillaria) sp. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) from the Scent Glands of Agkistrodon piscivorus, Nerodia erythrogaster, and Nerodia fasciata in North Carolina, U.S.A. , Comparative Parasitology (2026)
- Parasite conservation now: turning knowledge into action , Trends in Parasitology (2026)
- A Deep Learning Approach for High-Resolution Canopy Height Mapping in Indonesian Borneo by Fusing Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data , Remote Sensing (2025)
- Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival , Biological Conservation (2024)
- Nonrandom foraging and resource distributions affect the relationships between host density, contact rates and parasite transmission , Ecology Letters (2024)
- Ophisaurus ventralis (Eastern Glass Lizard. Sexual Maturity. , Herpetological Review (2024)
- Protected areas and One Health , PARKS (2024)
- Summer cave use by tricolored bats declined in response to white-nose syndrome despite persistence in winter hibernacula in the southeastern United States , Journal of Mammalogy (2024)
- Emerging Zoonotic and Wildlife Pathogens , (2023)
- First Detection of Apparent Ophidiomycosis in the Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis rhombomaculata) in North Carolina, USA , Herpetological Review (2023)