Background:
Lindsay is an assistant professor at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory and in the Department of Entomology & Nematology at the University of Florida. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geography from Michigan State University, where she investigated anthropogenic landscape disturbances and Buruli ulcer disease incidence in Benin West Africa. She continued on to earn a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Kansas where her work focused on modeling the distributional ecology of medically important arthropod vectors. Before arriving to FMEL, Lindsay trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she modeled distributions of environmental bacteria. When not nerding out on new modeling approaches or data challenges, she enjoys riding her bicycle, spending time with her family and poodle Ziggy, and walking on the beach.