Unscripted Research Blog

Conservation geneticist Kristin Brzeski has engaged a broad network of grassroots support in her efforts to restore the red wolf population in the American South. There's more than one way to save endangered species, and new advancements in biotechnology are opening conservation doors that scientists would have once thought impossible. Kristin Brzeski, associate professor of wildlife science and conservation in Michigan Tech's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, is exploring avenues that may be able to revive wild red wolf populations in the Southern U.S. Her research with a unique population of "ghost wolves" along the Gulf Coast has attracted partners across the full spectrum of the scientific community — from citizen scientists to the de-extinction-focused biotech company Colossal Biosciences.