Carrie Cizauskas

Alumna

Education

B.S. (Honors) Zoology: University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998

D.V.M.: Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, 2005

Research Description:

I study the ecological immunology of infectious diseases in wildlife to understand seasonal changes in host susceptibility, the immunological effects of co-infections, and immunological trade-offs. For my dissertation work, I have been examining the ecological immunology of plains zebra, springbok, African elephants, and black-backed jackals in relation to timing of anthrax outbreaks in a natural system (Etosha National Park, Namibia) and trade-offs with gastrointestinal helminth and coccidian parasite co-infections.

Selected Publications

Cizauskas CA, Bellan S, Turner W, Vance, RE, Getz, WM. In prep. The ecological immunology of anthrax in an endemic system: Do wild herbivores experience sublethal anthrax infection?

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. J. Wildlife Dis. 48(2):371-381.

Turner WC, CA Cizauskas, and WM Getz. 2010. Variation in fecal water content may confound estimates of gastro-intestinal parasite intensity in wild African herbivores. J Helminthology 84; 99-105.

Clegg S, and the Workshop Working Group (Amanfu W, Bengis R, Beyer W, Cizauskas C, et al). 2007. Preparedness for anthrax epizootics in wildlife areas. Emerg Inf Dis 12(7). Available from http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no07/06-0458.htm.

Honors and Awards

Julius Frietag Memorial Award, 2012

Johannes Joos Memorial Award, 2011

Graduate Division Summer Grant, 2010 and 2011

Bob Lane Endowed Graduate Student Support Fund for Disease Ecology, 2010

Carolyn Meek Memorial Scholarship in Environmental Science, 2010

Rocca Scholarship in Advanced African Studies, 2008

NIH/NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Grant, 2008: Contributing Author

Recent Teaching:

ES 196A: Senior Research Seminar in Environmental Sciences

IB 131L: Human Anatomy Laboratory

NSF GK-12 Program: Exploring California Biodiversity

IB 127L: Motor Control Laboratory

IB 133: Anatomy Enrichment

Guest Lecturer in MCB 50: The Immune System and Disease; ESPM 114: Wildlife Ecology; Stanford Anthropology 178A/278A: Past and Present Pestilence: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Impact of Zoonotic Diseases

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