Cynthia C. Lord

clord@ufl.edu

(100% Research)

1. Education

• B.S. 1983 University of Vermont , Zoology
• M.A. 1988 Princeton University , Biology
• Ph.D. 1991 Princeton University , Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

2. Employment

• University of Florida , Assoc.   Prof. 7/02-present
• University of Florida , Asst. Prof. 08/96-7/02
• University of Oxford , Postdoctoral Research Associate 08/93-07/96
• University of Notre Dame, Postdoctoral Trainee 09/91-05/93
• Princeton University , Grad. Teaching Asst. 09/86-05/93 (not continuous)
• University of Vermont , Res. Tech. 10/83-07/86

3. Research Responsibilities

• Basic and applied research on modeling and quantitative biology of insects of medical and veterinary importance and vector-borne pathogens.

4. Accomplishments

• Implications for seasonality and other complexities on the invasion and persistence of vector borne disease; sensitivity analyses of vector-borne virus epidemiology generating priority list for empirical research (St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile, African horse sickness viruses).

5.   Grants

•  PI - “Modeling and empirical studies of arboviruses in Florida ”, NIH (NIAID), 1998-2007

6.   Career publications

• Book chapters: 2
• Refereed papers: 24

7.   Selected Publications

• Lord, C. C.   2004.   Insect seasonality and behaviour in models of vector-borne disease.     Physiological Entomology . 29: 214-222.
• Rutledge, C. R., J. F.   Day, C. C. Lord , L. M. Stark and W. J. Tabachnick. 2003. West Nile virus infection rates in Culex nigripalpus (Diptera: Culicidae ) do not reflect transmission rates in Florida . Journal of Medical Entomology 40: 253 ‑258
• Lord, C. C. and W. J. Tabachnick. 2002. The influence of non-systemic transmission on the epidemiology of insect borne arboviruses: a case study of vesicular stomatitis epidemiology in the western U. S.   Journal of Medical Entomology 39: 417-426.
• Lord, C.C. and J.F. Day. 2001. Simulation studies of St. Louis encephalitis in south Florida . Vector Borne Zoon. Dis. 1:299-316
• Lord, C.C. and J.F. Day. 2001. Simulation studies of St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile viruses: the impact of bird mortality. Vector Borne Zoon. Dis. 1:317-330.
• Lord, C. C., M. E. J. Woolhouse and P. S. Mellor. 1997. Simulation studies of vaccination strategies in African horse sickness. Vaccine 15: 519-524.
• Lord, C. C., M. E. J. Woolhouse and B. J. Barnard. 1997. Transmission and distribution of virus serotypes: African horse sickness in zebra. Epidemiol . Infect. 118: 43-50.
• Lord, C. C., M. E. J. Woolhouse , P. Rawlings and P. S. Mellor. 1996. Simulation studies of African horse sickness and Culicoides imicola (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). J. Med. Entomol . 33: 328-338.
• Lord, C. C., M. E. J. Woolhouse , J. A. P. Heesterbeek and P. S. Mellor. 1996. Vector-borne disease and the basic reproduction number: a case study of African Horse sickness. Med. Vet. Entomol . 10: 19-28.
• Lord, C. C. 1995. Local variation in the abundance of nymphal Ixodes scapularis ( Acari : Ixodidae ) in New Jersey . J. Med. Entomol . 35: 66-70.
• Lord, C. C. 1993. Mortality of unfed nymphal Ixodes dammini in field exclosures . Environ. Entomol . 22: 82­87.
• Lord, C. C. 1992. Nymphal Ixodes dammini : models of the temporal abundance pattern. Int. J. Parasitol . 22: 759­76