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Overview

Alun L. Lloyd is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States and has conducted extensive research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Insect Science, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to disease dynamics and control, with a particular focus on epidemiological studies and vector-borne diseases. Their main topics of work include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models

Among their recent scientific publications are:

  • "Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies" (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "CRISPR/Cas9-based split homing gene drive targeting doublesex for population suppression of the global fruit pest Drosophila suzukii" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Optimizing the deployment of ultra-low volume and targeted indoor residual spraying for dengue outbreak response" (2020, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • "Population genomics of invasive rodents on islands: Genetic consequences of colonization and prospects for localized synthetic gene drive" (2021, Evolutionary Applications)

Lloyd frequently collaborates with a number of other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Suzanne Lenhart, Cristina Lanzas, Thomas W. Scott, Amy C. Morrison, and Helvio Astete.

The scientist's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with a notable number of contributions in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Presence of an inducible HIV-1 latent reservoir during highly active antiretroviral therapy

    Tae-Wook Chun;Lieven Stuyver;Stephanie B. Mizell;Linda A. Ehler

  • The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations.

    Thomas Walker;Petrina Johnson;Luciano Moreira;Luciano Moreira;Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe

  • Infection dynamics on scale-free networks.

    Robert M. May;Alun L. Lloyd

  • How Viruses Spread among Computers and People

    Alun L. Lloyd;Robert M. May

  • HLA alleles determine human T-lymphotropic virus-I (HTLV-I) proviral load and the risk of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy

    Katie J. M. Jeffery;Koichiro Usuku;Sarah E. Hall;Wataru Matsumoto

  • Realistic Distributions of Infectious Periods in Epidemic Models: Changing Patterns of Persistence and Dynamics

    Alun L. Lloyd

  • A systematic review of mathematical models of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission: 1970–2010

    Robert C Reiner;Robert C Reiner;T Alex Perkins;T Alex Perkins;Christopher M Barker;Christopher M Barker;Tianchan Niu;Tianchan Niu

  • Spatial Heterogeneity in Epidemic Models

    Alun L. Lloyd;Robert M. May

  • Viral dynamics of primary viremia and antiretroviral therapy in simian immunodeficiency virus infection.

    Martin A. Nowak;Alun L. Lloyd;Gabriela M. Vasquez;Theresa A. Wiltrout

  • Destabilization of epidemic models with the inclusion of realistic distributions of infectious periods.

    Alun L. Lloyd

  • The Extent of Early Viral Replication Is a Critical Determinant of the Natural History of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

    Jeffrey D. Lifson;Martin A. Nowak;Simoy Goldstein;Jeffrey L. Rossio

  • The Influence of HLA Class I Alleles and Heterozygosity on the Outcome of Human T Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type I Infection

    Katie J. M. Jeffery;Asna A. Siddiqui;Mike Bunce;Alun L. Lloyd

  • On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States.

    Andrew J. Monaghan;Cory W. Morin;Daniel F. Steinhoff;Olga Wilhelmi

  • Recasting the theory of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission dynamics and control

    David L. Smith;T. Alex Perkins;T. Alex Perkins;Robert C. Reiner;Robert C. Reiner;Christopher M. Barker;Christopher M. Barker

  • THE COUPLED LOGISTIC MAP : A SIMPLE MODEL FOR THE EFFECTS OF SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY ON POPULATION DYNAMICS

    Alun L. Lloyd

  • Skeeter Buster: a stochastic, spatially explicit modeling tool for studying Aedes aegypti population replacement and population suppression strategies.

    Krisztian Magori;Mathieu Legros;Molly E. Puente;Dana A. Focks

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of epidemics: synchrony in metapopulation models

    Alun L Lloyd;Alun L Lloyd;Vincent A.A Jansen

  • The estimation of the effective reproductive number from disease outbreak data.

    Ariel Cintrón-Arias;Carlos Castillo-Chávez;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Alun L. Lloyd

  • Local stability analysis of spatially homogeneous solutions of multi-patch systems.

    Vincent A.A. Jansen;Alun L. Lloyd

  • The dependence of viral parameter estimates on the assumed viral life cycle: limitations of studies of viral load data

    A. L. Lloyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Gould
Fred Gould North Carolina State University
Thomas W. Scott
Thomas W. Scott University of California, Davis
Uriel Kitron
Uriel Kitron Emory University
Amy C. Morrison
Amy C. Morrison University of California, Davis
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Christopher M. Barker
Christopher M. Barker University of California, Davis
William K. Reisen
William K. Reisen University of California, Davis
Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak Harvard University
Derek A. T. Cummings
Derek A. T. Cummings University of Florida

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