James Lloyd-Smith

 

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Journal articles

 

Schreiber, S.J. and Lloyd-Smith, J.O. (In review) Invasion success and extinction risk in spatially heterogeneous

environments.

 

Polansky, L., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., de Valpine, P., Getz, W.M. (In review) Likelihood ridges and the plausibility of strong concavity in population growth rates.

 

Raffel, T.R., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Sessions, S.K., Hudson, P.J., Rohr, J.R. (In review) Disentangling drivers of  parasite age-intensity and age-distribution relationships using field data, experiments, and models. 

 

Koelle, K., Cobey, S., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Griesemer, S., St.George, K., Grenfell, B.T., Pascual, M. (In review) Microevolutionary processes underlying the cluster dynamics of influenza A (H3N2). 

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O. (In review) Scaling of resource-driven density dependence in heterogeneous landscapes: dispersal as a case study. 

 

Hahn, J.A., Wylie, D., Dill, J., Sanchez, M., Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Page-Shafer, K., Getz, W.M. (In press) Potential impact of vaccination on the hepatitis C virus epidemic in injecting drug users.  Epidemics.

 

Polansky, L., de Valpine, P., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M. (In press) Estimating parameters in a generalized model of density dependence.  Theoretical Ecology.

 

Sanchez, M.S., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Williams, B.G., Porco, T.C., Ryan, S. J., Borgdorff, M.W, Mansoer, J., Dye, C., Getz, W.M. (In press)  Incongruent HIV and tuberculosis epidemics in Kenya: Interacting epidemics monitor each other.  Epidemics.

 

Auvert, B., Marseille, E., Korenromp, E.L., Lloyd-Smith, J., Sitta, R., Taljaard, D., Pretorius, C., Williams, B., Kahn, J.G.  (2008) Estimating the resources needed and savings anticipated from roll-out of adult male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE 3: e2679. [PDF]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Poss, M., Grenfell, B.T. (2008) HIV-1/parasite co-infection and the emergence of new parasite strains.  Parasitology 135: 795-806. [PDF]

 

Sanchez, M.S., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Porco, T.C., Williams, B.G., Borgdorff, M.W, Mansoer, J., Salomon, J.A., Getz, W.M. (2008) Impact of HIV on novel strategies for tuberculosis control.  AIDS 22: 963-972. [PDF]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Greig, D., Ghneim, G., Hietala, S., Palmer, L., St. Leger, J., Grenfell, B.T., Gulland, F.M.D.  (2007) Cyclical changes in seroprevalence of leptospirosis in California sea lions: endemic and epidemic disease in one host species?  BMC Infectious Diseases 7: 125.  [PDF]

 

Graham, A.L., Cattadori, I.M., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Ferrari, M.J., Bjornstad, O.N. (2007) Transmission consequences of co-infection: cytokines writ large?  Trends in Parasitology 23: 284-291. [PDF]

 

Cross, P.C., Johnson, P.L., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M.  (2007) Utility of R0 as a predictor of disease invasion in structured populations.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4: 315-324. [PDF]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O.  Maximum likelihood estimation of the negative binomial dispersion parameter for highly overdispersed datasets, with applications to infectious disease data. (2007) PLoS ONE 2: e180. [PDF]

 

Salomon, J.A., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M., Resch, S., Sánchez, M.S., Porco, T.C.,  Borgdorff, M.W.  (2006) Prospects for advancing tuberculosis control efforts through novel therapies.  PLoS Medicine 3: 1302-1309. [PDF][Supp. Info]

 

Williams, B.G., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Gouws, E., Hankins, C., Getz, W.M., Dye, C., Hargrove, J., de Zoysa, I., Auvert, B.  (2006) The potential impact of male circumcision on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.  PLoS Medicine 3: 1032-1040. [PDF][Supp. Info]

 

Bar-David, S., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M.  (2006)  Dynamics and management of infectious diseases in colonizing populations. Ecology 87: 1215-1224. [PDF]

 

Getz, W.M. and Lloyd-Smith, J.O. (2006) Comment on “On the regulation of populations in mammals, birds, fish and insects” I.  Science 311: 1100.  [available at Science online]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Schreiber, S.J., Kopp, P.E., Getz, W.M. (2005)  Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence. Nature 438: 355-359. [PDF][Supp. Info][available at Nature online][News & Views]

 

Bauch, C.T., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Coffee, M., Galvani, A.P.  (2005)  Dynamically modeling SARS and other newly emerging respiratory illnesses: past, present, and future. Epidemiology 16: 791-801. [PDF]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Cross, P.C., Briggs, C.J., Daugherty, M., Getz, W.M., Latto, J., Sánchez, M.S., Smith, A.B., Swei, A.  (2005) Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20: 511-519. [PDF]

 

Cross, P.C., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Johnson, P.L., Getz, W.M.  (2005)  Dueling time scales of host mixing and disease recovery determine invasion of disease in structured populations. Ecology Letters 8: 587-595. [PDF]

 

Cross, P.C., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M. (2005) Disentangling association patterns in fission-fusion societies using African buffalo as an example. Animal Behaviour 69: 499-506. [PDF]

 

Porco, T.C., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Gross, K.L., Galvani, A.P. (2005) The effect of treatment on pathogen virulence. Journal of Theoretical Biology 233: 91-102. [PDF]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M., Westerhoff, H.V. (2004) Frequency-dependent incidence in sexually-transmitted disease models: portrayal of pair-based transmission and effects of illness on contact behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Sciences 271: 625-634. [PDF]

 

Cross, P.C., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Bowers, J., Hay, C.T., Hofmeyr, M., Getz, W.M. (2004)  Integrating association data and disease dynamics: an illustration using African Buffalo in Kruger National Park. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 879-892. [PDF]

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O.*, Galvani, A.P.*, Getz, W.M. (2003) Curtailing transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome within a community and its hospital. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Sciences 270, 1979-1989. [PDF]

 

Book chapters (peer-reviewed)

 

Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Schreiber, S.J., Getz, W.M. (2006) Moving beyond averages: Individual-level variation in disease transmission. In Mathematical studies on human disease dynamics: Emerging paradigms and challenges, ed. Gumel, A.B., Castillo-Chavez, C., Mickens, R.E., Clemence, D.P., AMS Contemporary Mathematics Series, Vol 410, 235-258. [PDF]

 

Bar-David, S., Lloyd-Smith, J.O., Getz, W.M. (2006)  Infectious disease in spatially expanding populations: a model for reintroduced species. In Conservation Biology in Asia, ed. McNeely, J.A., McCarthy, T. M., Smith, A., Olsvig-Whittaker, L., Wikramanayake, E.D., Society for Conservation Biology and Resources Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, 340-362.

 

Getz, W. M., and Lloyd-Smith, J. O. (2006) Basic methods for modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease.  In Disease evolution: Models, concepts and data analyses, ed. Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A.  AMS/DIMACS Vol. 71: 87-109.

 

Getz, W.M., Lloyd-Smith, J.O, Cross, P.C., Bar-David, S., Johnson, P.L., Porco, T.C., Sánchez, M.S. (In press)  Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations.  In Disease evolution: Models, concepts and data analyses, ed. Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A.  AMS/DIMACS Vol. 71: 113-144.

 

Work in other fields

 

Crawford, M.A., Bloom, M., Broadhurst, C.L., Schmidt, W.F., Cunnane, S.C., Galli, C., Gehbremeskel, K., Linseisen, F., Lloyd-Smith, J., Parkington, J. (1999) Evidence for the unique function of DHA during the evolution of the modern hominid brain. Lipids 34 supp: S39-47.

 

Graham, S.J., Stanchev, P.L., Lloyd-Smith, J.O.A., Bronskill, M.J., Plewes, D.B. (1995) Changes in fibroglandular volume and water content of breast tissue during the menstrual cycle observed by MR imaging at 1.5 T.  Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 5: 695-701.

 

Bloom, M., Linseisen, F., Lloyd-Smith, J., Crawford, M.A. (1999) Insights from NMR on the functional role of polyunsaturated lipids in the brain. Proceedings of the 1998 Enrico Fermi International School of Physics, on “Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function: Approaches from Physics”, ed. B. Maraviglia, Italian Physical Society.

 

*authors contributed equally