Publications

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

Butler, C. D., and A. L. Lloyd. Spatial confinement of gene drives: Insights from global sensitivity analysis. In progress.

Baltzegar, J., Butler, C. D., Ding, J., Beeson, C., Reed, E., Reiskind, M., and M. Burford Reiskind (2025). Rapid spread of knockdown resistance allele frequencies in a suburban population of Aedes albopictus. Preprint. DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.30.662396.

Butler, C. D., Ding, J., Baltzegar, J., Brown, Z., Burford Reiskind, M., and M. Reiskind (2025). Socioeconomic predictors of knockdown resistance in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Preprint. DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.01.662680.

Butler, C. D., and A. L. Lloyd (2025). How the consequences of genetic load are modulated by density-dependence. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 614;112215. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112215.

Butler, C., and P. Stechlinski (2023). Modeling Opioid Abuse: A Case Study of the Opioid Crisis in New England. Bulletin of mathematical biology, 85(6);45. DOI: 10.1007/s11538-023-01148-1.

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. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301525120.

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 Biomathematics, 8(1); 151-66. DOI: 10.30707/LiB8.1.1647878866.073232.

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

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