photo credit: R. Heinig

photo credit: R. Heinig

Current Position

Research Scientist III
The Department of Biology
Colorado State University
Mentor: Colleen Webb

Education

The Pennsylvania State University
Doctorate in Biology, 2013
Advisor: Ottar Bjørnstad

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Biology, 2008
Minor in International Studies

Publications

Beck-Johnson, Lindsay M, Erin E. Gorsich, Clayton Hallman, Michael J. Tildesley, Ryan S. Miller, Colleen T. Webb. An exploration of within-herd dynamics of a transboundary livestock disease: a foot and mouth disease case study. 2023. Epidemics 42: 100668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100668.

Sellman, Stefan, Lindsay M Beck-Johnson, Clayton Hallman, Ryan Miller, Katharine A. Owers Bonner, Katie Portacci, Colleen Webb, Tom Lindström. Modeling U.S. cattle movements until the cows come home: who ships to whom and how many. 2022. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 203:107483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2022.107483

Gilbertson, Kendra, Peter Brommesson, Amanda Minter, Clayton Hallman, Ryan S. Miller, Katie Portacci, Stefan Sellman, Michael J. Tildesley, Colleen T. Webb, Tom Lindström, and Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson. The importance of livestock demography and infrastructure in driving foot and mouth disease dynamics. 2022. Life 12(10), 1604. 10.3390/life12101604

Sellman, Stefan, Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson, Clayton Hallman, Ryan S. Miller, Katharine A. Owers Bonner, Katie Portacci, Colleen T. Webb, Tom Lindström. Modeling nation-wide U.S. swine movement networks at the resolution of the individual premises. 2022. Epidemics 41: 100636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100636

Brommesson, Peter, Stefan Sellman, Lindsay Beck-Johnson, Clayton Hallman, Deedra Murrieta, Colleen T. Webb, Ryan S. Miller, Katie Portacci, Tom Lindström. Assessing intrastate shipments from interstate data and expert opinion. 2021. R. Soc. open sci. 8:192042. 10.1098/rsos.192042

Tsao, Kimberly, Stefan Sellman, Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson, Deedra J. Murrieta, Clayton Hallman, Tom Lindström, Ryan S. Miller, Katie Portacci, Michael J. Tildesley, Colleen T. Webb. Effects of regional differences and demography in modelling foot-and-mouth disease in cattle at the national scale. 2019. Interface Focus 10: 2019005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0054

Greischar, Megan A., Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson, Nicole Mideo. Partitioning the influence of selection across scales on parasite evolution. 2019. Evolution 73, 2175-2188 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.1380

Beck-Johnson, L.M., Hallman, C., Miller, R.S., Portacci, K., Gorsich, E.E., Grear, D.A., Hartmann, K., Webb, C.T., 2019. Estimating and exploring the proportions of inter- and intrastate cattle shipments in the United States. Prev. Vet. Med. 162, 56–66. doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2018.11.002

Dietze, Michael C.,  Andrew Fox, Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson, Julio L. Betancourt, Mevin B. Hooten, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Timothy H. Keitt, Melissa A. Kenney, Christine M. Laney, Laurel G. Larsen, Henry W. Loescher, Claire K. Lunch, Bryan C. Pijanowski, James T. Randerson, Emily K. Read, Andrew T. Tredennick, Rodrigo Vargas, Kathleen C. Weathers, Ethan P. White. 2018. Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 201710231. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710231115

Beck-Johnson, Lindsay M., William A. Nelson, Krijn P. Paaijmans, Matthew B. Thomas, Andrew F. Read and Ottar N. Bjørnstad. 2017. The importance of temperature fluctuations in understanding mosquito population dynamics and malaria risk. R. Soc. Open Sci. 4: 160969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160969

Beck-Johnson, Lindsay M., William A. Nelson, Krijn P. Paaijmans, Matthew B. Thomas, Andrew F. Read and Ottar N. Bjørnstad. 2013. The effect of temperature on Anopheles mosquito population dynamics and the potential for malaria transmission. PLoS ONE 8(11): e79276. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079276

Thiele, J., Hefley, T., Beck-Johnson, L., Matthews, E. 2009. Monitoring Early Season Mosquito and Bird Populations: Implications for West Nile Virus in Lancaster County, Nebraska. RURALS: Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences. 4(3): 3.  http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/rurals/vol4/iss1/3/