Sonja Christensen, Ph.D.

Wildlife biologist and disease ecologist focusing on deer and other cervid species. Assistant professor @MichiganStateFW @CANRatMSU she/her. Views my own.

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

🚨 Website FINALLY published! Please check out https://t.co/OeHsHjvzBA for information about my work and the work of my amazing team.

I hope to continue to add and improve to this, but happy to finally get it out there.

HT to @WildliferSteve for help with edits and feedback!

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

Had a great conversation about CWD and deer with @bactiman63 at Outbreak News Today. Check out the podcast below 👇

[Outbreak News Today @bactiman63]

Chronic wasting disease with Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist #podcast #animals #prions
https://t.co/4FoydAoHXx

[MSU News @MSUnews]

Sonja Christensen @CANRatMSU and @MSUAgBio is leading research on chronic wasting disease that affect deer populations. https://t.co/L6wLLnCzSy

[MSU AgBioResearch @MSUAgBio]

It's deer hunting season in Michigan. To protect wildlife health, @deerbiologist works with partners such as @MichiganDNR and @fishwildlife. Her research is primarily on deer diseases like chronic wasting disease.
@MSUnews @CANRatMSU @MDNR_Wildlife
READ: https://t.co/2AxURAzL4v

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

Thank you for the good conversation, @MSUAgBio ! Happy to spread the word on our work in the #TheChristensenLab and @MichiganStateFW

[MSU AgBioResearch @MSUAgBio]

Last month, @deerbiologist was named to a @theNASEM committee studying chronic wasting disease. Later this week, we'll share more about her research and outreach.
@MDNR_Wildlife @MichiganDNR @fishwildlife @MSUnews @CANRatMSU
READ: https://t.co/mN94BK4KlK

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

@mariaclopez2020 @WildliferSteve Thanks Maria!

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

HUGE congrats to @WildliferSteve on a successful defense of his master’s thesis yesterday! This was an enormous effort and I couldn’t be more proud of my first graduate student. 🥳🦌🎓

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

@TRVanDeelen @WildliferSteve Thanks, Tim!

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

@EcologistGreen Love this!

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

Excited to join a great group of scientists on this National Academies of Science panel!

[MSU AgBioResearch @MSUAgBio]

AgBioResearch's Sonja Christensen (@deerbiologist) has been named by @theNASEM to a committee examining #ChronicWastingDisease. The group will generate a report for wildlife management agencies about current knowledge of transmission and spread of CWD.
https://t.co/mN94BK4KlK

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

🎉 Looking for a PhD position in wildlife disease ecology using quantitative methods?? Come join my lab!
https://t.co/4EaAqM9Lny

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

We are a few days in to our #studyabroad in South Africa! Staying at #southernafricanwildlifecollege and seeing amazing wildlife. Also learning the challenges of wildlife conservation and management here. Looking forward to the next 2 weeks with our 12 @michiganstateu students!

[Krysten Schuler @wildlifeDZeco]

Only 13 days left to contribute! If we don't make it to $3k, we get $0! Support a worth project: https://t.co/tXguBogUlX

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

@abigailthiemkey @drmichellelarue

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

🔬🦌🤩 The upside of my grad students using #chatGPT…and having an awesome grad student who sends fun stuff like this to me: #CWD #Haiku

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

@n_a_gilbert @nytimes Very cool!!

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

Always fun to bring food and wildlife science together. Looking forward to making the waffle holiday party a Christensen lab tradition🧇 🔬🧪🦌🎄 Very proud of all that this group has accomplished!

[Miranda Strasburg @strasbm3]

From dessert parties with the Boone lab @BooneAmphibLab to waffle parties with the Christensen lab @deerbiologist, I will always be a big fan of lab traditions especially when they involve food.

[David Green, PhD @EcologistGreen]

Hey @wildlifesociety — Come stop by booth 107 to learn about how @StacksJournal is going to make publishing more inclusive, transparent, collaborative, and constructive.

[Sonja Christensen, Ph.D. @deerbiologist]

Voted early ✅, boarded my flight ✅, and on my way to #TWS2022 ! 🦌

[Native American Fish and Wildlife Society @native_wildlife]

NAFWS is now accepting applications for a Fish and Wildlife Biologist. Applications are due November 10, 2022.
Read the announcement and position description at: https://t.co/gh33vs3BQ0