Published Works
C Cizauskas, E DeBenedictis, and P Kelly. 2024. How the past is shaping the future of life science: the convergence of biology, automation, and AI. Zenodo preprint DOI 10.5281/zenodo.13838042.
Member of 93-person contributor group. 2022. Research Roadmaps for the Next-Generation Bioeconomy: Engineering Biology for Climate & Sustainability. Engineering Biology Research Consortium.
Also did illustrations/figures for all 6 themes of the roadmap.
CA Cizauskas, AD Washburne, JE Knelman, CB Hansen, PL Esinyon, AM Nderitu, A Dobson, and AL Graham. Natural helminth infections reduce relative abundance of inflammation-inducing Prevotella in wild primates. 2022. biorXiv DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.02.494558.
P Shapira, NE Matthews, CA Cizauskas, ER Aurand, DC Friedman, DS Layton, ME Maxon, MJ Palmer, and L Stamford. 2022. Building a bottom-up bioeconomy. Issues in Science and Technology XXXVIII No. 3.
Bidner LR, CA Cizauskas, EK Van Cleave, A Matsumoto-Oda, and LA Isbell. Accepted as chapter for inclusion in Baboons: Behavior, Ecology, and Taxonomy. 2022. A view from the sleeping sites: social and ecological dynamics among olive baboon (Papio anubis) groups in Laikipia, Kenya.
Member of 49-person contributor group. 2020. Microbiome engineering: a research roadmap for the next-generation bioeconomy. Engineering Biology Research Consortium.
CA Cizauskas and U Galm. Application and impact sector co-leads. 2019. Industrial biotechnology in: Engineering biology: a research roadmap for the next-generation bioeconomy. Also a contributing member to several other roadmap sections. Engineering Biology Research Consortium.
Matthews NE, CA Cizauskas, DS Layton, L Stamford, and P Shapira. 2019. Collaborating constructively for sustainable biotechnology. Scientific Reports 9(19033). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54331-7
Blackburn JK, HH Ganz, JM Ponciano, WC Turner, SJ Ryan Simonovich, PL Kamath, CA Cizauskas, KL Kausrud, RD Holt, NC Stenseth, and WM Getz. 2019. Modeling R0 for Pathogens with Environmental Transmission: Animal Movements, Pathogen Populations, and Local Infectious Zones. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16(6). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16060954
Carlson CJ, WM Getz, KL Kausrud, CA Cizauskas, JK Blackburn, FA Bustos Carrillo, R Colwell, WR Easterday, HH Ganz, PL Kamath, OA Okstad, WC Turner, A-B Kolsto, and NC Stenseth. 2017. Spores and soil from six sides: interdisciplinarity and the environmental biology of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis). Biological Reviews 93(4). DOI: 10.1111/brv.12420
Carlson CJ, OC Muellerklein, AJ Phillips, KR Burgio, G Castaldo, C Cizauskas, GS Cumming, TA Dallas, J Dona, NC Harris, R Jovani, Z Miao, H Proctor, HS Yoon, and WM Getz. 2017. The parasite extinction assessment & red list: an open-source, online biodiversity database for neglected symbionts. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/192351
Carlson CJ, KR Burgio, ER Dougherty, AJ Phillips, VM Bueno, CF Clements, G Castaldo, TA Dallas, CA Cizauskas, GS Cumming, J Dona, NC Harris, R Jovani, S Mironov, OC Muellerklein, HC Proctor, and WM Getz. 2017. Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate. Science Advances 3(9). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602422
Cizauskas CA, CJ Carlson, KR Burgio, CF Clements, NC Harris, ER Dougherty, and AJ Phillips. 2017. Parasite vulnerability to climate change: an evidence-based functional trait approach. Royal Society Open Science 4(1). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160535
Caraco T, CA Cizauskas, and I-N Wang. 2016. Environmentally transmitted parasites: Host-jumping in a heterogeneous environment. Journal of Theoretical Biology 397. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.02.025
Dougherty ER, CJ Carlson, VM Bueno, KR Burgio, CA Cizauskas, CF Clements, DP Seidel, and NC Harris. 2015. Paradigms for parasite conservation. Conservation Biology 30(4). DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12634
Cizauskas CA, WC Turner WC, NI Pitts, and WM Getz. 2015. Seasonal patterns of hormones, macroparasites, and microparasites in wild African ungulates: the interplay between stress, reproduction, and disease. PLoS ONE 10(4).
Cizauskas CA, WC Turner, B Wagner, M Kusters, RE Vance, and WM Getz. 2014. Gastrointestinal helminths may affect host susceptibility to anthrax through seasonal immune trade-offs. BMC Ecology 14(1). DOI: 10.1186/PREACCEPT-8163456511335363
Cizauskas CA, S Bellan, WC Turner, RE Vance, and WM Getz. 2014. Frequent and seasonally variable sublethal anthrax infections are accompanied by short-lived immunity in herbivores in an anthrax endemic system. Journal of Animal Ecology 83(5). DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12207
Carlson CJ, CA Cizauskas*, KR Burgio, CF Clements, and NC Harris. 2013. The more parasites the better? Science 342(6162). *Shared first author. DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6162.1041-a
Bellan SE, CA Cizauskas, J Miyen, K Ebersohn, M Kusters, KC Prager, M van Vuuren, C Sabeta, and WM Getz. 2012. Black-backed jackal exposure to rabies virus, canine distemper virus, and Bacillus anthracis in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 48(2). DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-48.2.371
Turner WC, CA Cizauskas, and WM Getz. 2009. Variation in fecal water content may confound estimates of gastro-intestinal parasite intensity in wild African herbivores. Journal of Helminthology 84(1). DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X09990320
Cizauskas CA. 2008. Book Review: Zoo Animal & Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44(2). DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-44.2.528
Clegg S, and the Workshop Working Group (Amanfu W, Bengis R, Beyer W, Cizauskas C, et al). 2006. Preparedness for anthrax epizootics in wildlife areas. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12(7).
Cizauskas CA, DM Yanez, JB Batchelder, HC van der Heyde, and WP Weidanz. 1997. Preferential Localization of CD8+ T Cells in Sites of Pathology During Experimental Malaria; Abstract. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 57(3).
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.