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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 and functional connectivity 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.

Amy is a PhD student in Entomology & Nematology and a graduate research and teaching assistant. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Monitoring/Analysis from the University of Applied Sciences Dresden (DE), she went on to receive a master's degree in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution from the University of Göttingen (DE), where she collaborated with Dr. Tomberlin at Texas A&M University for her thesis research. In her PhD research, Amy studies the effects of land use land cover and their change on mosquito communities, and investigates the resulting potential pathogen transmission risk across the landscape by including species traits in her analyses. Throughout her academic career, she has been fascinated with research questions focused on the human-environment interface and she is passionate about conducting research that provides results applicable to public health by providing knowledge necessary to understand, manage and prevent vector-borne disease. In her free time, Amy loves to spend time with her cat Petrusilius Zwackelmann and to get creative with needlework, art, and anything related to food.