Publications, Conferences, and Other Lectures

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Conference Presentations and Organized Sessions

  • P Shapira and CA Cizauskas. Co-organizers of an invited session: The biological engineering revolution: strategies for a sustainable scale-up. 2020. American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. 

  • van Leeuwen A, CA Cizauskas, and A Dobson. Co-organizers of an invited session: Parasites in trophic networks: complex life cycles, coinfection dynamics, and community structure. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. 

  •  Cizauskas CA, WC Turner, RE Vance, and WM Getz. Seasonal patterns of hormones, macroparasites, and microparasites in wild African ungulates: the interplay between stress, reproduction, and disease. 2014. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA. 

  • Cizauskas CA, WC Turner, RE Vance, and WM Getz. Don’t stress, it’s just parasites. 2014. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Fort Collins, CO.

  • Getz WM, S Bellan, W Beyer, CA Cizauskas, C Cloete, HH Ganz, Z Havarua, P Imologhome, P Kamath, W Kilian, J Klumpp, M Küsters, C Law, A Lyons, O Spiegel, M Tsalyuk, RE Vance, and R Zidon. Anthrax in Etosha, Namibia, and lessons for anthrax worldwide. 2013. National Science Foundation’s and National Institutes of Health’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Athens, Georgia.

  • Cizauskas CA, S Bellan, WC Turner, RE Vance, and WM Getz. The ecological immunology of anthrax in an endemic system: Do wild herbivores experience sublethal anthrax infection? 2012. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.

  • Cizauskas CA. Seasonal immunological patterns and potential trade-offs affecting host susceptibility to anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia. 2010. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Graduate Research Symposium, Berkeley, CA.

  • Cizauskas CA and WM Getz. Seasonal immunological patterns and potential trade-offs affecting host susceptibility to anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia. 2010. National Science Foundation’s and National Institutes of Health’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Atlantic City, NJ.

  • Cizauskas CA, DM Yanez, JB Batchelder, HC van der Heyde, and WP Weidanz. Preferential localization of CD8+ T cells in sites of pathology during experimental malaria. 1997. Annual Convention of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Orlando, FL.

Conference Poster Presentations

  • Cizauskas CA, WC Turner, B Wagner, RE Vance, and WM Getz. P.R.E.A.M. (Parasites Rule Everything Around Me): Evidence that gastrointestinal helminths drive seasonal host immunity and disease trade-offs in a mixed coinfection system. 2013. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, State College, PA.

  • Cizauskas CA, RE Vance, and WM Getz. Ecological immunology: It might be messy, but someone’s got to do it. 2012. National Science Foundation’s and National Institutes of Health’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference, Berkeley, CA.

  • Bellan S, CA Cizauskas, H Ganz, P Kamath, O Spiegel, WC Turner, R Zidon, and WM Getz. Ecology and epidemiology of anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia. 2011. National Science Foundation’s and National Institutes of Health’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference.

  • Cizauskas CA and WM Getz. The Ecology of Anthrax from an Immunological Perspective: Seasonal Aspects of Host Susceptibility. 2007. Etosha Centenary Research Symposium, Mokuti, Namibia. 

Other Lectures and Seminars

  • In sickness and in health: disease, wildlife health and conservation. India’s Centre for Wildlife Studies CWS Wildlife Chronicles. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl1EePyuAJc&list=PLBKlT-SXjCRMDz6rwbOOP03VxKGygxi1V&index=33

  • Biodesigning for ecosystems: a primer. Biodesign Challenge webinar. 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fp3eG2u50

  • Don’t black box the host: the internal ecosystem in disease ecology. Seminar lecturer for San Francisco State University Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Colloquium. 2019, San Francisco, CA.   

  • The ecological immunology of anthrax and coinfections in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Lecture for UC Berkeley Wildlife and Conservation Biology Seminar. 2013, Berkeley, CA.

  • The epidemiology, ecology, and immunology of anthrax. Eight-Time Guest Lecturer for UC Berkeley course The Immune System and Disease (Molecular and Cell Biology 50). 2007-2014, Berkeley, CA.

  • Seasonal immunological patterns and trade-offs affecting host susceptibility to anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Lecture for UC Berkeley Africanist Graduate Student Lecture Series. 2010, Berkeley, CA.

  • The epidemiology, ecology, and immunology of anthrax in Namibia. Guest Lecturer at the California Academy of Sciences. 2009, San Francisco, CA.

  • The epidemiology, ecology, and immunology of anthrax. Guest Lecturer for Stanford University course Past and Present Pestilence: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Impact of Zoonotic Diseases (Anthropology 178A/278A). 2008, Stanford, CA.

  • An introduction to wildlife infectious disease ecology. Two-Time Guest Lecturer for UC Berkeley course Wildlife Ecology (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 114). 2006, 2007, Berkeley, CA.