College of Veterinary Medicine

Education:

DVM, University of Georgia, 2001
Residency (Anatomic Pathology), University of California at Davis and Zoological Society of San Diego, 2004
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2008

Honors and Awards:

2008 Charles F. Simpson Memorial Scholarship for graduate student research

Research Interests:

My primary areas of interest are diseases of free-ranging wildlife and conservation.  I work intensively with marine turtles as a contract veterinarian in the Office of Protected Resources (National Marine Fisheries Service).   Other species of interest include marine mammals, crocodilians, other reptiles, and amphibians.   Current and past projects include a variety of infectious and noninfectious disease studies, investigations of animal die-offs, and studies of human impacts.  In addition to my role as a diagnostic pathologist, I serve as co-investigator in the Marine Animal Diagnostic Laboratory and have a strong interest in applied molecular studies and diagnostics.

Selected Publications:

Stacy BA, Santoro M, Morale JA, Huzella LM, et al.  Renal oxalosis in free-ranging green turtles.  Dis Aquat Org.  2008 80: 45-49.

Manire CA, Stacy BA, Kinsel MJ, et al.  Proliferative dermatitis in a loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, and a green turtle, Chelonia mydas, associated with novel papillomaviruses.  Vet Microbiol. Feb 2008. Epub.

 

Stacy BA, Howard L, Kinkaid J, Vidal JD, Papendick R.  Proliferative coelomitis due to yolk leakage in Fiji Banded Iguanas (Brachylophus fasciatus).  J Zoo and Wildl Med.  2008. 39(2): 161-169.

Stacy BA, Foley A, Wellehan JFX, et al.  Two herpesviruses associated with disease in wild Atlantic loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta).  Vet Microbiol. 2008 Jan 1; 126(1-3): 63-73.

Stacy BA, Pessier AP.  Host response to pathogens.  In: Infectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles:  Color Atlas and Text.  ER Jacobson (ed.).  CRC Press.  2007.

Terrell SC, Stacy BA.  Reptile necropsy techniques.  In: Infectious Diseases and Pathology of Reptiles:  Color Atlas and Text.  ER Jacobson (ed.).  CRC Press.  2007.

Jacobson ER, Homer BL, Stacy BA, Greiner EC et al.  A neurological disease of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in coastal waters of Florida, USA.  Dis Aquat Org. 2006 70: 139-154.

Stacy BA, Parker JM. Amphibian oncology (review).  Vet Clin North Am Exot Anim Pract. 2004 Sep;7(3):673-95

Trott KA, Stacy BA, Lifland BD, Diggs HE, Harland RM, Khokha MK, Grammer TC, Parker JM.  Characterization of a Mycobacterium ulcerans-like infection in a colony of African tropical clawed frogs (Xenopus tropicalis).  Comp Med. 2004 Jun;54(3): 309-17.

Stacy BA, Vidal JD, Osofsky A, Terio K, Koski M, De Cock HE. Ovarian papillary cystadenocarcinomas in a green iguana (Iguana iguana).  J Comp Pathol. 2004 Feb-Apr; 130(2-3): 223-8.

Bakardjiev AI, Stacy BA, Fisher SJ, Portnoy DA. Listeriosis in the pregnant guinea pig: a model of vertical transmission.  Infect Immun.  2004 Jan;72(1): 489-97.

Stacy BA, Whitaker N.  Hematology and blood biochemistry of captive mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris).  J Zoo Wildl Med. 2000 Sep;31(3): 339-47.