Contact Information
Title: Technology
Transfer Program Manager
Address:
USDA/APHIS/WS/NWRC
4101 LaPorte Ave., Fort
Collins, CO, 80521
Telephone: 970-266-6158
Fax: 970-266-6157
E-mail: John.D.Eisemann@aphis.usda.gov
NWRC
Program: NWRC Technology Transfer Program
Education
M.S.
University of Maryland, Environmental Science, "Stormwater treatment
ponds as nesting habitat for urban birds"
B.S.
Colorado State University, Wildlife Biology
International
Experience
- Republic of the Philippines, US Peace Corps
- Netherlands, Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, Development of internationally harmonized pesticide risk
assessment guidelines
- Canada, Development of pesticide risk assessment
techniques
- U.S. Virgin Islands, Rodent eradication on islands
for conservation purposes
- American Samoa, Development of a myna eradication
project
- Guam, Development of brown-treesnake management
techinques
- Australia, Development of management tools for feral
swine and rodent
Product
Development and Technology Transfer
- Contraceptive vaccine for managing prairie dogs,
horses and other wildlife species
- Vaccine development for managing plague in prairie
dogs
- Development of sodium nitrite for managing feral
swine in the US and Australia
- Development of avian repellents for agricultural
applications
- Development of rodenticide applications for
eradicating invasive rodents from islands
Introduction
John D.
Eisemann is the NWRC Technology Transfer Program Manager at the USDA APHIS
Wildlife Services (WS), National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) in Fort
Collins, Colorado. As Program Manager, Mr. Eisemann is responsible for all
WS technology transfer activities including the development of confidentiality
and material transfer agreements, Cooperative Research and Development
Agreements, and the preparation of invention disclosures and patent
applications on behalf of WS scientists and operational employees. Other
technology transfer activities include providing training to WS employees on
the importance of protecting intellectual property and mechanisms of providing
that protection and identifying licensing partners for the transfer of WS
intellectual property to outside entities.
In addition,
Mr. Eisemann supervises the NWRC Product Registration and Quality Assurance
activities. These units are responsible for maintaining regulatory
compliance of all Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) vertebrate
pesticide and animal drug registrations projects, maintaining the NWRC Quality
Assurance program in relation to research protocols and complying with Good
Laboratory Practices for agency required studies. Other projects John has
worked on include the development of contraceptive vaccines and chemicals,
eradication of rodents on islands for conservation purposes, the development of
disease vaccines to manage zoonotic diseases in wildlife populations, and the
registration of toxicants and repellents to meet Wildlife Services diverse
operation needs. John works closely with Wildlife Services Operations, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the USDA Center for
Veterinary Biologics to achieve these tasks. Previously, John worked with
the U.S. EPA conducting ecological risk assessment of agricultural pesticides,
and the US Fish and Wildlife Service developing biomarkers in wildlife for
exposure to environmental contaminants.
Publications
Eisemann, J.D., P.M. Fisher, A. Buckle, and S. Humphrys. 2018. An
international perspective on the regulation of rodenticides. pgs. 287-318. In:
N.W. van den Brink, J.E. Elliott, R.F. Shore and B.A. Rattner, editors. Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology
Principles, Approaches and Perspectives Volume 5 Anticoagulant Rodenticides and
Wildlife. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland,
398 pp.