Dr. Lynn B. Martin is Professor in the Center for Global Health and Infectious Disease Research in the USF College of Public Health. He is recognized as both a pioneer and world leader in the field of ecological immunology and disease ecology. His current research focuses on one of the most broadly distributed avian species: the house sparrow. Working with colleagues and scientists from around the world, Dr. Martin is studying the endocrine and immune systems of native and introduced populations of the house sparrow. He and collaborators have also been studying how stress affects dynamics of zoonotic diseases, such as West Nile virus, and how body size affects the architecture of mammalian species immune systems. His most recent grant will see him and colleagues investigating how natural environmental variation affects the immune systems of the small mammals that carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Dr. Martin has received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, the Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award from the American Ornithologists Union, the George A Bartholomew Young Investigator Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, multiple USF Awards, and a Fulbright Specialist award. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 50, is a AAAS and American Ornithologists Society Fellow, and has received ~$5 million in total funding for research. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. He also completed post-doctoral training in Neuroscience at The Ohio State University.