Publications

Butler, C. D., Dhole, S., Gould, F., and A. L. Lloyd. Partially functional resistance interferes with gene drive. In progress.

Butler, C. D. and A. L. Lloyd (2026). Spatial confinement of gene drives: Assessing risk of failure using global sensitivity analysis. Evol Appl (in review). Preprint DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.18.706608.

Baltzegar, J., Butler, C. D., Ding, J., Beeson, C., Reed, E., Reiskind, M., and M. Burford Reiskind (2026). Emergence and spatial distribution of knockdown resistance in a suburban population of Aedes albopictus. Parasit Vectors. 19(1); 409.

Butler, C. D., Ding, J., Baltzegar, J., Brown, Z., Burford Reiskind, M., and M. Reiskind (2026). Socioeconomic predictors of knockdown resistance in the globally invasive tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus. R Soc Open Sci. 13(7): 251678.

Butler, C. D., and A. L. Lloyd (2025). How the consequences of genetic load are modulated by density-dependence. J Theor Biol, 614;112215.

Butler, C., and P. Stechlinski (2023). Modeling Opioid Abuse: A Case Study of the Opioid Crisis in New England. Bull Math Biol, 85(6);45.

Yadav, A., Butler, C., Yamamoto, A., Patil, A., Lloyd, A., and M. Scott (2023). CRISPR-Cas9 based split homing gene-drive targeting doublesex for population suppression of the global fruit pest Drosophila suzukii. PNAS, 120(25);e2301525120.

Butler, C., Cheng, J., Correa, L., Preciado, M., Ríos, A., Montalvo, C., and C. Kribs (2021). Comparison of screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at hospital admission and discharge. Letters in Biomath, 8(1); 151-66.

My undergraduate thesis on a mathematical model of the opioid epidemic, which received highest honors, can be found here.