Kaylee Herzog, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Professional Summary

• 2022–present, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology

Education

• 2022, Ph.D., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
• 2016, M.A., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
• 2014, B.Sc., Biology, State University of New York College at Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta)

Professional Interests

• Evolutionary biology
• Parasite genomics & population genomics
• Taxonomy & systematics
• Human hookworms
• Shark & ray tapeworms

Selected Publications

• Herzog, K.S. and K. Jensen. 2022. A synergistic, global approach to revising the trypanorhynch tapeworm family Rhinoptericolidae (Trypanobatoida). PeerJ Life & Environment 10:e12865, 83 pp. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12865.
• Herzog, K.S., R.S. Meininger, and F.B. Reyda. 2021. A new species of tapeworm in the genus Stillabothrium (Rhinebothriidea: Escherbothriidae) from a stingray from Borneo. Comparative Parasitology 88(1), 34–40. DOI: 10.1654/1525-2647-88.1.34.
• Herzog, K.S. and K. Jensen. 2018. Five new species of the tapeworm genus Anthocephalum (Rhinebothriidea: Anthocephaliidae) parasitizing a single species of Indo-Pacific stingray and a revised diagnosis of the genus. Journal of Parasitology 104(5), 505–522. DOI: 10.1645/18-53.
• Herzog, K.S. and K. Jensen. 2017. A new genus with two new species of lecanicephalidean tapeworms (Cestoda) from the spotted whipray Urogymnus granulatus (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Solomon Islands and Northern Australia. Folia Parasitologica 64(004): 12 pp. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2017.004.
• Jensen, K., J.J. Cielocha, K.S. Herzog, J.N. Caira. 2017. Lecanicephalidea. In: Planetary Biodiversity Inventory: Tapeworms from the Vertebrate bowels of the Earth (2008–2016). Caira, J.N. and K. Jensen (eds). University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication No. 25. Lawrence, KS: pp. 189–210.
• Reyda, F.B., C.J. Healy, A.R. Haslach, T.R. Ruhnke, T.L. Aprill, M.P. Bergman, A.L. Daigler, E.A. Dedrick, I. Delgado, K.S. Forti, K.S. Herzog, R.S. Russell, and D.D. Willsey. 2016. A new genus of rhinebothriidean cestodes from batoid elasmobranchs, with the description of five new species and two new combinations. Folia Parasitologica 63(038): 28 pp. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2016.038.
• Simões, M., L. Breitkreuz, M. Alvarado, S. Baca, J.C. Cooper, L. Heinz, K. Herzog and B.S. Lieberman. 2016. The evolving theory of evolutionary radiations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(1): 27–24. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.10.007.

Professional Affiliations

• American Society of Parasitologists