PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Science Writer
Dec 2020 – present
Science News Officer, University of Pennsylvania
June – Oct 2023
Science Communication Intern, Cell Press
Jan – June 2023
EDUCATION
PhD / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Master of Arts / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Master of Research / Biology
Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
BSc Honors / Animal & Veterinary Sciences
University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA, Australia
BSc / Veterinary Bioscience
University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA, Australia
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Wait, L.F., Johnson, S.R., Nelson, K.M., Chipman, R.B., Pogmore, F.E., Dobson, A.P., & Graham, A.L. (2023). Demographic, environmental and physiological predictors of gastrointestinal parasites in urban raccoons. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 21, 116-128.
Tombak, K.J., Easterling, L.A., Martinez, L., Seng, M.S., Wait, L.F., & Rubenstein, D.I. (2022). Divergent water requirements partition exposure risk to parasites in wild equids. Ecology and Evolution, 12(3), e8693.
Wait, L.F., Kamiya, T., Fairlie-Clarke, K.J., Metcalf, C.J.E., Graham, A.L. and Mideo, N., 2021. Differential drivers of intraspecific and interspecific competition during malaria–helminth co-infection. Parasitology, 148(9), pp.1-10.
Wait, L.F., Dobson, A.P. and Graham, A.L., 2020. Do parasite infections interfere with immunisation? A review and meta-analysis. Vaccine, 38(35), pp. 5582-5590.
Wait, L.F., Fox, S., Peck, S. and Power, M.L., 2017. Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium and Giardia from the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). PloS one, 12 (4), p.e0174994.
Wait, L.F., Peck, S., Fox, S. and Power, M.L., 2016. A review of parasites in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Biodiversity and Conservation, 26(3), 509-526.
Wait, L.F., Srour, A., Smith, I.G., Cassey, P., Sims, S.K. and McAllister, M.M., 2015. A comparison of antiserum and protein A as secondary reagents to assess Toxoplasma gondii antibody titers in cats and spotted hyenas. The Journal of parasitology, 101(3), pp. 390-392.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
University Administrative Fellowship, Communicating Research and Scholarship Working Group, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2019 – 2020
Conveying Science Through Art: A Public Engagement Workshop, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA, August 2019
Advanced Course: Concepts in Parasitology, The Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. Kioloa, NSW and Canberra, ACT, Australia. November – December 2014