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Lawrence Ticknor
Scientist, CCS-6
Email
(505) 667-6055

Experience

DNA sequence comparisons; Comparison of Microbe Populations; Neural Nets and Clustering; Data Mining; Sample Plan Development for Estimation of Variables in Engineered and Natural Environments; Modeling Growth in Biological Populations; Monte Carlo Simulation; Nonlinear modeling; Measurement Quality Control; Instrument Calibration; Categorical data analysis; Multivariate data analysis; Linear Models; Variance Propagation; Probability Risk Assessments and Reliability.

Education

M.S., Statistics
Duke University
1987

M.S., Forestry
Duke University
1982

B.S., Botany and Environmental Sciences
Grinnell College, Iowa
1979

Positions

1989 - Present | Scientists, CCS-6

Awards

2010 Distinguished Performance Award - BioWatch Assay Evaluation Team

Professional Societies

American Statistical Association

Publications

Burr, Tom, Hamada, Michael S. , Ticknor, Larry , Sprinkle, James, "Hybrid Statistical Testing for Nuclear Material Accounting Data and/or Process Monitoring Data in Nuclear Safeguards", Energies, Vol.8, p.501-528, January 13, 2015.
Dabritz, Haydee A, Karen k. Hill, Jason R. Barash, Lawrence O. Ticknor, Charles H. Helma, Nir Dover, Jessica R. Payne, Stephen S. Arnon (2014), “Molecular Epidemiology of Infant Botulism in California and Elsewhere, 1976-2010.” Journal of Infectious Diseases, 210(11): 1711-1722
Burr, Tom, Hamada, Michael S. , Ticknor, Larry , Weaver, Brian, "Model selection and change detection for a time-varying mean in process monitoring", NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, Vol.751, p.79-87, JUL 1 2014.
Burr, Tom, Hamada, Michael S., Howell, John, Skurikhin, Misha, Ticknor, Larry ,Weaver, Brian, "Estimating Alarm Thresholds for Process Monitoring Data under Different Assumptions about the Data Generating Mechanism", Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, p.705878, 2013.
Hill, K. K., Smith, T. J., Ticknor, L. O., Foley, B. T., Xie, G., "Genetic diversity between and within botulinum neurotoxin serotypes", Toxicon, Vol.68, p.60-61, JUN 15 2013.
Van Cuyk, S, Deshpande, A, Hollander, A, Franco, DO, Teclemariam, NP, Layshock, JA, Ticknor, LO, Brown, MJ, Omberg, KM, "Transport of Bacillus Thuringiensis var. Kurstaki from and Outdoor Release into Buildings" Pathways of Infiltration and a Raid Method to Identify Contaminated Buildings", BIOSECURITY AND BIOTERRORISM-BIODEFENSE STRATEGY PRACTICE AND SCIENCE, Vol.10, iss.2, p.215-227, JUN 2012.
Kuske, CR, Yeager, CM, Johnson, S, Ticknor, LO, Belnap, J, "Response and resilience of soil biocrust bacterial communities to chronic physical disturbance in arid shrublands", ISME JOURNAL, Vol.6, iss.4, p.886-897, APR 2012.
Macdonald, TE, Helma, CH, Shou, YL, Valdez, YE, Ticknor, LO, Foley, BT, Davis, SW, Hannett, GE, Kelly-Cirino, CD, Barash, JR, Arnon, S, Lindstrom, M, Korkeala, H, Smith, LA, Smith, TJ, Hill, KK, "Analysis of Clostridium botulinum Serotype E Strains by Using Multilocus Sequence Typing, Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism, Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis, and Botulinum Neurotoxin Gene Sequencing", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol.77, iss.24, p.8625-8634, DEC 2011.
Van Cuyk, S, Deshpande, A, Hollander, A, Duval, N, Ticknor, L, Layshock, J, Gallegos-Graves, L, Omberg, KM, "Persistence of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp Kurstaki in Urban Environments following Spraying", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol.77, iss.22, p.7954-7961, NOV 2011.
Dunbar, J., Xie, G., Ticknor, L., Vilgalys, R., Zak, D., Schadt, C., Megonigal, P., Evans, D., Hungate, B., Eichorst, S., Rogers, Y., Gallegos-Graves, L., Silva, S., Bruce, D., Kuske, C., "Impacts of Multi-year, Elevated CO2 Conditions on Soil Bacterial Communities across Different Terrestrial Ecosystems", Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Vol.109, 2009.
Kuske, C., Xie, G., Dunbar, J., Ticknor, L., Vilgalys, R., Zak, D., Schadt, C., Megonigal, P., Evans, R. D., Hungate, B. A., Eichorst, S., Johnson, S., Rogers, Y., Gallegos-Graves, L., Silva, S., Bruce, D], "Impacts of Multi-year, Elevated CO2 Conditions on Soil Fungal Communities across Different Terrestrial Ecosystems", Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Vol.109, 2009.
Omberg, Kristin M., Van Cuyk, Sheila, Deshpande, Alina, Hollander, Attelia, Ticknor, Larry, White, P. Scott, "ENVR 48-Surface and bulk sampling to characterize the fate of Bacillus thuringiensis var. Kurstaki (Btk) in urban environments", Abstracts of Papers American Chemical Society, Vol.238, p.48-ENVR, AUG 16 2009.
Koppisch, AT, Dhungana, S, Hill, KK, Boukhalfa, H, Heine, HS, Colip, LA, Romero, RB, Shou, YL, Ticknor, LO, Marrone, BL, Hersman, LE, Iyer, S, Ruggiero, CE, "Petrobactin is produced by both pathogenic and non-pathogenic isolates of the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria", BIOMETALS, Vol.21, iss.5, p.581-589, OCT 2008.
West, DS, Frame, KJ, Thompson, J, Ticknor, LO, "Evaluation of a newly developed tritium calorimeter at Los Alamos National Laboratory", FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol.54, iss.1, p.178-181, JUL 2008.
Macdonald, TE, Helma, CH, Ticknor, LO, Jackson, PJ, Okinaka, RT, Smith, L, Smith, TJ, Hill, KK, "Differentiation of Clostridium botulinum serotype a strains by multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis", APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, Vol.74, iss.3, p.875-882, FEB 2008.

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