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Education

• Ph.D in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, 2018
• B.S. in Biomedical Engineering & B.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia, 2012

Work experience

California Department of Public Health/Heluna Health, Richmond, CA (remote)

Statistician Modeler, COVID Modeling Team (September 2021 – present)

USAID, Office of HIV/AIDS, Systems and Program Sustainability Division, Washington, DC

AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow (September 2020 – August 2021)

National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, MD

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (August 2018 – August 2020)

University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN

Graduate Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant (September 2013 – July 2018)

Publications

2022

Manlove, K., Wilber, M., White, L.A., Bastille-Rousseau, G., Yang, A., Gilbertson, M. Craft, M., Cross, P., Wittemyer, G. & Pepin, K. (Accepted). Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace-of-life. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.163458112.22651398/v1

Hundt, P., White, L.A., Craft, M.E., & Prezmyslaw, G. (Accepted). Social associations in common carp (Cyprinus carpio): insights from induced feeding aggregations for targeted management strategies. Ecology & Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8666

*Mistrick J., *Gilbertson M.L.J., White L.A., & Craft M.E.. Constructing animal networks for parasite transmission inference. In: Ezenwa VO, Altizer S, Hall RJ, editors. Animal Behavior and Parasitism. Oxford University Press, 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192895561.003.0004

Borer, E.T., Paseka, R.E., Peace, A., Asik, L., Everett, R., Frenken, T., González, A.L., Strauss A.T., Van de Waal, D.B., White, L.A., Seabloom, E.W. (2022). Disease-mediated nutrient dynamics: reciprocal relationships link host-pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy. Ecological Monographs, 92(2): e1510. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1510

2021

Frenken, T., Paseka, R., González, A.L., Asik, L., Seabloom E.W., White, L.A., Borer, E.T., Strauss, A.T., Peace, A. Van de Waal, DB. (2021). Changing elemental cycles, stoichiometric mismatches, and consequences for pathogens of primary producers. Oikos, 130: 1046–1055. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08253

Malmberg, J., White, L.A., Vandewoude, S. (2021). Predator driven spillover: Pathogen bioaccumulation in top predators. TREE 36(5), P411-420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.01.008

Shaw, A.K., White, L.A., Michalska-Smith, M., Borer, E.T., Craft, M.E., Seabloom, Snell-Rood, E., and Travisano, M. (2021). Lessons from movement ecology for the return to work: modeling contacts and the spread of COVID-19. PLoS ONE 16(1), e0242955. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242955

Borer, E.T., Asik, L. Everett, R.A., Frenken, T., Gonzalez, A. Paseka, R. Peace, A. Seabloom, E.W. Strauss, A.T., Van de Waal, D.B., and White, L.A. (2021). Elements of disease in a changing world: modelling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems. Ecology Letters, 24: 6-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13617

Lee, N., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., White, L.A., Schrode, K.M., and Bee, M. (2021). Noise-control lungs help frogs solve a multi-species, cocktail party problem. Current Biology, 31: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.048

2020

Worsley-Tonks, K.E.L., Escobar, L.E., Biek, R., Castaneda-Guzman, M., Craft, M.E., Streicker, D.G., White, L.A., and Fountain-Jones, N.M.  (2020) Using host traits to predict reservoir host species of rabies virus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14(12): e0008940. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008940

White, L.A., Siva-Jothy, J.,Craft, M. E., and Vale, P. (2020). Genotype and sex-based host variation in behaviour and susceptibility drives population disease dynamics. Proc. R. Soc. B. 287: 20201653, http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1653

White, L.A., Vandewoude, S. & Craft, M.E. (2020). A mechanistic, stigmergy model of territory formation in an asocial animal: territorial behavior can dampen or drive persistence. PLoS Comput Biol 16(6): e1007457. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007457

Paseka, R., White, L.A., van de Waal, D., Strauss, A., González, A., Everett, R.. Peace, A., Seabloom, E., Frenken T., and Borer, E. (2020). Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people. Trends in Ecology & Evol 35(8): 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.04.003

White, L.A. and Mordechai, L. (2020). Modeling the Justinianic Plague: comparing hypothesized transmission routes. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231256. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231256

*Gilbertson, M., White, L.A., and Craft, M.E. (2020). Trade-offs with telemetry-derived contact networks for infectious disease studies in wildlife. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13355

2018

White, L.A., Forester, J. D. and Craft, M. E. (2018). Understanding pathogen dynamics as a function of individual movement behavior across a heterogeneous landscape. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1801383115

White, L.A., Forester, J. D. and Craft, M. E. (2018). The role of host heterogeneity in determining epidemic outcomes: Covariation between the physiological and behavioral components of transmission. Oikos, 127(4), 538-552. doi: 1111/oik.04527

White, L.A., Forester, J. D. and Craft, M. E. (2018). REVIEW: Mechanistic, spatial models of parasite transmission in wildlife: their structure, applications, and remaining challenges. J. Anim. Ecol. 87(3), 559-580. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12761

2017

Stadler, R., White, L.A., Hu, K., Helmke, B., and Guilford, W. (2017). Direct measurement of cortical force generation and polarization in a living parasite. Mol. Bio. Cell. 28(14), 1912-1923. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E16-07-0518

White, L.A., Torremorell, M. and Craft, M.E. (2017). Influenza A virus in swine breeding herds: Combination of vaccination and biosecurity practices can reduce likelihood of endemic piglet reservoir. Prev. Vet. Med., 138, 55-69. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2016.12.013

White, L.A., Forester, J.D. and Craft, M.E. (2017). Using contact networks to explore mechanisms of parasite transmission in wildlife. Rev., 92, 389-409. doi:10.1111/brv.12236

2016 or earlier

Eads, D.A., Bowser, J., Poonamallee, M., Molina, S., Neill, J., and White, L.A. (2016). Black-tailed prairie dogs selectively countermark rabbit urine: The scent of competition between a rodent and a lagomorph? Ethology, Ecology & Evolution, 28(1), 102-109. doi:10.1080/03949370.2014.999828

Ezenwa, V., Archie, E., Craft, M.E., Hawley, D., Martin, L., Moore, J. and White, L.A. (2016). Host behavior-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behavior and disease ecology. Proceedings B, 283(1828), 20153078. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.3078.

White, L.A., Ortiz, Z., Cuervo, L.G., and Reveiz, L. (2011). Clinical trial regulation in Argentina: Overview and analysis of regulatory framework, use of existing tools, and researchers’ perspectives to identify potential barriers. Rev. Panam. Salud Publica, 30(5), 445–452. doi: 1590/S1020-49892011001100007