Ph.D.: Ph.D.: Biological Education, University of Northern Colorado (2011) B.S.: Biology, Mesa State College (2006)

My research interests are mostly focused on virus: host interactions in small mammals and the immune response to infection. In my lab, we examine virus-host interactions of Sin Nombre virus (SNV) in deer mice, Modoc virus (MODV) in deer mice, and Tacaribe virus (TCRV) in Jamaican fruit bats. I have recently begun a collaborative project with Dr. Richard Hyslop (Dept. of Chemistry, UNC) trying to isolate genes from bacterial and fungal cell lines that could be used in the development of an anti-cancer drug delivery system.

Amanda McGuire, Joseph Fauvera Amber Rico, Tawfik Aboellail, Gretchen Hume, Kaitlyn Miedema, Sandra Quackenbush, Ann Hawkinson and Tony Schountz. Maporal Hantavirus Causes Mild Pathology in Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). (JVI, Submitted for review January 2015). Timothy I Shaw, Anuj Srivastava, Wen-chi Chou, Liang Liu, Ann Hawkinson, Travis C. Glenn, Rick Adams, and Tony Schountz. Transcriptome Sequencing and Annotation for the Jamaican Fruit Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis). PLoS ONE, November 2012, 7(11) e48472. AC Hawkinson, R Bowen, S James, D Gardiner, C Calisher, R Adams, and T Schountz, Tacaribe Virus Causes Fatal Infection of An Ostensible Reservoir Host, the Jamaican Fruit Bat. Journal of Virology 2012, 86(10): 5791. AC Cogswell-Hawkinson, R Adams, C Calisher, M McGlaughlin and T Schountz: Cloning and Characterizing Cytokine Genes from Seba’s Short-tailed Bat (Carollia perspicillata). BMC Immunology. (Open Immunology Journal, October, 2011) Schountz, T., J. Prescott, A. C. Cogswell, L. Oko, K. Mirowsky-Garcia, A. Galvez Fuenzalida and B. Hjelle. Regulatory T cell-like responses in deer mice persistently-infected with Sin Nombre virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2007. 104: 15496.