Data products

VecTraits

Leah R. Johnson, Lauren Cator, Samuel S. C. Rund, Sadie Ryan, Paul J. Huxley, and Samraat Pawar. 2023. “VecTraits Explorer.” University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/28020782

Vec Dyn

Samuel S.C. Rund,  Sadie J. Ryan, Paul J. Huxley, Catherine A. Lippi, Lauren Cator, Samraat Pawar, and Leah R. Johnson. 2023. “VecDyn Explorer.” University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/10083626

The Vector Data Ecosystem

Sadie J. Ryan, Leah R. Johnson, Catherine A. Lippi, Lauren Cator, Samraat Pawar, and Samuel S. C. Rund. 2023. “The Vector Data Ecosystem.” University of Notre Dame. https://doi.org/10.7274/27854508

Pre-prints

  • Luke Flory, S., Ryan, S. J., Taneja, Y., Munoz, M., Lippi, C., & Allan, B. (2025). Impacts of plant invasions on tick-borne disease risk. In EcoEvorXiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/X23D0P

  • Ryan, S. J., Huxley, P. J., Lippi, C. A., Pawar, S., Cator, L., Rund, S. S. C., & Johnson, L. R. (2025). MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data. In bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.27.634769

Papers

  • Brady, O. J., Bastos, L. S., Caldwell, J. M., Cauchemez, S., Clapham, H. E., Dorigatti, I., Gaythorpe, K. A. M., Hu, W., Hussain-Alkhateeb, L., Johansson, M. A., Lim, A., Lopez, V. K., Maude, R. J., Messina, J. P., Mordecai, E. A., Peterson, A. T., Rodriquez-Barraquer, I., Rabe, I. B., Rojas, D. P., … Tran, Q. M. (2025). Why the growth of arboviral diseases necessitates a new generation of global risk maps and future projections. PLoS Computational Biology, 21(4), e1012771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012771

  • Lim, A., Shearer, F. M., Sewalk, K., Pigott, D., Clarke, J., Ghouse, A., Judge, C., Kang, H., Messina, J. P., Kraemer, M. U. G., Gaythorpe, K., de Souza, W. M., Nsoesie, E. O., Celone, M., Faria, N. R., Ryan, S., Rabe, I. B., Rojas, D. P., Hay, S. I., … Brady, O. J. (2025). The overlapping global distribution of dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3418. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58609-5

  • Shocket, M. S., Bernhardt, J., Miazgowicz, K. L., Orakzai, A., Savage, V. M., Hall, R. J., Ryan, S., & Murdock, C. C. (2025). Mean daily temperatures predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than hourly rate summation. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3441. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58612-w

  • Villena, O. C., Arab, A., Lippi, C., Ryan, S. J., & Johnson, L. R. (2024). Influence of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors on presence of malaria at the community level in two continents. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 16734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67452-5

  • Lippi, Catherine A., Gaff, H. D., White, A. L., & Ryan, S. J. (2024). Assessing the value and knowledge gains from an online tick identification and tick-borne disease management course for the Southeastern United States. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1793. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19307-x

  • Lim, A.-Y., Jafari, Y., Caldwell, J. M., Clapham, H. E., Gaythorpe, K. A. M., Hussain-Alkhateeb, L., Johansson, M. A., Kraemer, M. U. G., Maude, R. J., McCormack, C. P., Messina, J. P., Mordecai, E. A., Rabe, I. B., Reiner, R. C., Jr, Ryan, S. J., Salje, H., Semenza, J. C., Rojas, D. P., & Brady, O. J. (2023). A systematic review of the data, methods and environmental covariates used to map Aedes-borne arbovirus transmission risk. BMC Infectious Diseases, 23(1), 708. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08717-8

  • Lippi, Catherine A., Mundis, S. J., Sippy, R., Flenniken, J. M., Chaudhary, A., Hecht, G., Carlson, C. J., & Ryan, S. J. (2023). Trends in mosquito species distribution modeling: insights for vector surveillance and disease control. Parasites & Vectors, 16(1), 302. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-05912-z

  • Lippi, Catherine A., Rund, S. S. C., & Ryan, S. J. (2023). Characterizing the Vector Data Ecosystem. Journal of Medical Entomology, 60(2), 247–254. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad009

  • Lippi, C. A., Gaff, H. D., Nadolny, R. M., & Ryan, S.J. (2023). Newer Surveillance Data Extends our Understanding of the Niche of Rickettsia montanensis (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) Infection of the American Dog Tick Ixodidae) in the United States. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases . https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/vbz.2023.0002

  • Lippi, Catherine A., Canfield, S., Espada, C., Gaff, H. D., & Ryan, S. J. (2023). Estimating the distribution of Oryzomys palustris , a potential key host in expanding rickettsial tick‐borne disease risk. Ecosphere, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4445

  • Ryan, S. J., Lippi, C. A., Villena, O. C., Singh, A., Murdock, C. C., & Johnson, L. R. (2023). Mapping current and future thermal limits to suitability for malaria transmission by the invasive mosquito Anopheles stephensi. Malaria Journal, 22(1), 104. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-023-04531-4

  • Mundis, S. J., Harrison, S., Pelley, D., Durand, S., & Ryan, S. J. (2022). Spatiotemporal Environmental Drivers of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in Central Florida: Towards a Predictive Model for a Lethal Disease. Journal of Medical Entomology, 59(5), 1805–1816. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjac113

  • Wu, V. Y., Chen, B., Christofferson, R., Ebel, G., Fagre, A. C., Gallichotte, E. N., Sweeny, A. R., Carlson, C. J., & Ryan, S. J. (2022). A minimum data standard for vector competence experiments. Scientific Data, 9(1), 634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01741-4

  • D'Antuono, C. M., Anderson, K., Afuso, J., Huang, M., Robichaud, J., & Rund, S. S. (2024). Mosquito аbundance and species surveillance in St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1976-1997. Biodiversity Data Journal, 12, e122215.

Posters

  • Ryan, S.J. and Lippi, C.A. 2024. (Poster) “GH43A-2734: Management Implications of increasing suitability risk for West Nile Virus transmission in Florida with climate and population change” Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2024. December 12th, 2024, Washington DC

  • Bhandari, S, Blackburn, J.K., Ryan, S.J. 2024. (Poster). “GH43A-2747: Shifting temperature driven dengue suitability in Nepal in a changing climate”. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2024. December 12th, 2024, Washington DC

  • Ryan, S.J. and Lippi, C.A. 2024. (Poster). “Management Implications of increasing suitability risk for West Nile Virus transmission in Florida with climate and population change” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), November, 2024, New Orleans.

  • Lippi, C.A., Gaff, H.D., White, A.E., Ryan, S.J. 2024. (Poster). Assessing the value and knowledge gains from an online tick identification and tick-borne disease management course for the Southeastern United States. EPI Research Day 2024, Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, University of Florida

  • Peterson, E., Lippi, C.A., Ryan, S.J. 2024. (Poster). Mapping potential transmission risk of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV) in Florida in a changing climate. EPI Research Day 2024, Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, University of Florida

  • Rund, S.S.C.R., Ryan, L. R. Johnson, S. J., Ryan,  Pawar, S., 2024. (Poster) VectorByte. European Society of Vector Ecology. Montpellier, France.

  • Rund, S.S.C.R., Ryan, L. R. Johnson, S. J., Ryan,  Pawar, S. ,2024. (Poster) VectorByte. American Mosquito Control Association. Puerto Rico.

  • Lin, T.**, and Ryan, S.J. 2025. (Poster) “Evaluating Dengue Thermal Transmission Suitability in Brazil: Comparing Baseline and Future CMIP6 Projections” PHHP Days, April 15, 2025, Gainesville FL.

  • Shannin, A.** and Ryan, S.J. 2025. (Poster) “Changing Seasons of Dengue Suitability in Florida: CMIP6 Projections” EPI Research Day 2025, April 17, 2025, Gainesville, FL.

  • Bhandari, S*, Blackburn, J.K., Ryan, S.J. 2025. (Poster) Modelling future dengue transmission suitability in Nepal using CMIP6 climate scenarios. EPI Research Day 2025, April 17, 2025, Gainesville, FL.

  • Lin, T.**, and Ryan, S.J. 2025. (Poster) “Evaluating Dengue Thermal Transmission Suitability in Brazil: Comparing Baseline and Future CMIP6 Projections” GeoGator Summer Research Poster Symposium, August 29, 2024, Gainesville FL.

  • Blackwood, B.**, and Ryan, S.J. 2025. (Poster) “Spatially modeling dengue thermal transmission suitability through Ae. aegypti in the continental U.S. using 2021-2040 CMIP6 climate projections” GeoGator Summer Research Poster Symposium, August 29, 2024, Gainesville FL.

  • Shannin, A.** and Ryan, S.J. 2025. (Poster) “Changing Seasons of Dengue Suitability in Florida: CMIP6 Projections”EPI Research Day 2025, GeoGator Summer Research Poster Symposium, August 29, 2024, Gainesville FL.