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