Jay Levine

Bio

Dr. Levine, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health joined NC State in 1984. His research work spans more than three decades and initially focused on arthropod-borne diseases and in particular Lyme disease. Dr. Levine has also coordinated studies focused on marine bivalves and shellfish safety, marine finfish, numerous veterinary health problems in companion animals, and ecosystem health. The work of his Aquatic Epidemiology and Conservation Laboratory focuses on some of the most imperiled animals on the planet, freshwater mussels and snails. Dr. Levine, his staff and students have been working to further our understanding of these freshwater invertebrates, develop new diagnostic techniques for studying their health and refining techniques that support their conservation and their captive propagation for the augmentation of remaining populations. Additional studies focuses on identifying the vertebrate sources of fecal waste in surface waters.

Dr. Levine’s is actively engaged in NC communities and has supported community initiatives focused on environmental restoration, stormwater mitigation and early childhood literacy. Since 2009, he has coordinated the Homework Haven (homeworkhaven.org), a free after school tutoring program in South Raleigh.

Publications

• Political identity as a driver of hunter responses to chronic wasting disease in a post-COVID world , HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE (2024)
• Predicting residential septic system malfunctions for targeted drone inspections , Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2023)
• An Accelerometer-based Sensing System to Study the Valve-gaping Behavior of Bivalves , IEEE Sensors Letters (2021)
• Bivalves , Invertebrate Medicine (2021)
• Developing mitochondrial DNA field-compatible tests , Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (2021)
• Frequency of Animal Leptospirosis in the Southern United States and the Implications for Human Health , Southern Medical Journal (2020)
• Lack of influence by endosymbiont Wolbachia on virus titer in the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius , Parasites & Vectors (2019)
• Oyster Mariculture in Puerto Rico- A Preliminary Evaluation of Methods and Feasibility , World Aquaculture (2019)
• A Comparison of the chemical sensitivities between in vitro and in vivo propagated juvenile freshwater mussels: Implications for standard toxicity testing , Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2018)
• Fish Passage on the Broad River: An Assessment of Freshwater Mussel Distribution after Nine Years of Fish Passage Operation , (2018)