Curriculum Vitae
You can download a PDF version of my CV HERE. (updated Dec 2011)
Leah R. Johnson
Recent Papers
L. Pecquerie, L.R. Johnson, S.A.L.M. Kooijman and R.M. Nisbet. Analyzing variations in life-history traits of five Pacific salmon species in the context of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory. Journal of Sea Research 60 (2011) 424-433.
L.R. Johnson and C.J. Briggs. Parameter Inference for an Individual Based Model of Chytridiomycosis in Frogs. Journal of Theoretical Biology 277 (2011) 90-98. (Technical report available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0746.)
R.M. Nisbet, E. McCauley, and L.R. Johnson. (2010) Dynamic Energy Budget Theory and Population Ecology: Lessons from Daphnia. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 365:3541-3552.
D. Merl, L.R. Johnson, R.B. Gramacy and M. Mangel. (2010) amei: an R package for the Adaptive Management of Epidemiological Interventions. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(6):1-32. (also see R packages, below)
Johnson, L.R. (2010) Implications of Dispersal and Life History Strategies for the Persistence of Linyphiid spider Populations. Ecological Modelling, 221, 1138-1147. (Technical report available at: arXiv:0908.2778v2)
D. Merl, L.R. Johnson, R.B. Gramacy and M. Mangel. (2009) A statistical framework for the adaptive management of epidemiological interventions. PLoS ONE 4(6): e5807.
Johnson, L.R. (2008) Microcolony
and Biofilm Formation as a Survival Strategy
for Bacteria
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 251, pg 24-34.
(technical report at: arXiv:q-bio.QM/0611087)
Johnson, L. R., and M. Mangel. (2006) Life histories and the evolution of aging in bacteria and other single-celled organisms. Mechanisms of Aging and Developement, 127(10), pg 786-793.
A full list of publications is available in my CV.
Submitted
E. Mordecai, K. Paaijmans, L.R. Johnson, S. Pawar, C. Balzer, T. Ben-Horin, E. de Moor, A. McNally, S. Ryan, T. Smith, K. Lafferty. Nonlinearities in thermal performance dramatically lower the optimum temperature for malaria risk
J. Voyles, L.R. Johnson, C.J. Briggs, S.D. Cashins, R.A. Alford, L. Berger, L.F. Skerratt, R. Speare, E.B. Rosenblum. Temperature alters reproductive life history patterns in Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a lethal pathogen associated with the global loss of amphibians
In Preparation
L.R. Johnson with L. Pecquerie and R.M. Nisbet. Bayesian inference of parameters for Dynamic Energy Budget models with dynamic food environments: methods and considerations
R Packages
amei: Adaptive Management of Epidemiological Interventions. with Robert Gramacy, Dan Merl, and Marc Mangel.
Dissertation
In June 2006 I completed my Ph.D. at the University of California Santa Cruz, working with Marc Mangel in the Applied Math and Statistics Department. My dissertation is titled Mathematical Modeling of Cholera: from bacterial life histories to human epidemics. The dissertation is divided into three main chapters. First is a model of cholera in a human population that is coupled to an aquatic reservoir of cholera. The second explores a mathematical model bacterial life histories, particularly aging. Finally, I examine how different kinds of interactions between individual bacteria influence properties of V. cholerae bacterial communities.
Particle Physics and Astrophysics
I started my academic life as a physicist, with interests in particle physics, astrophysics, and medical physics. In 2002 I presented a poster entitled "Monte Carlo Studies on Proton Computed Tomography using a Silicon Strip Detector Telescope" at the IEEE MIC 2002 conference. Both my paper and poster are linked below. For a list of other publications in physics see my CV .
pCT paper for IEEE NSS/MIC conference
pCT
poster for IEEE NSS/MIC 2002
My Undergraduate Senior Honor's Thesis: "How
Parallel are Parallel Universes"
