Cristina Lanzas

Bio

Dr. Cristina Lanzas joined the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology as Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease in January 2015. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at University of Tennessee and senior personnel at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis ( www.nimbios.org ). She received her degree in Veterinary Medicine from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain in 2000 and her M.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) in Animal Sciences from Cornell University.
Lab: https://lanzaslab.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

CERTIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy (2007)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Master of Science (2003)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Veterinary Medicine Degree (2000)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
With the highest honors

Area(s) of Expertise

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS, GLOBAL HEALTH, INFECTIOUS DISEASES
My research lab focus is the epidemiology and ecology of infectious diseases in animal and human populations. We combine data, epidemiological analysis and mathematical models to study transmission mechanisms, and to identify and design control measures to reduce the public health burden associated with infectious diseases. We are particularly interested in understanding the role that the environment plays on transmission and the dissemination of antimicrobial resistant pathogens. Our program spans a range of pathogen-host systems including foodborne pathogens in farm animals and health-care associated diseases in humans.

Publications

• Influence of Sequencing Technology on Pangenome-Level Analysis and Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in ESKAPE Pathogens , OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2025)
• Influence of Sequencing Technology on Pangenome-level Analysis and Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in ESKAPE Pathogens , (2025)
• Risk factors for fluoroquinolone- and macrolide-resistance among swineCampylobacter coliusing multi-layered chain graphs , (2025)
• Analysis of within-pen and between-pen fenceline temporal contact networks in confined feedlot cattle , PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE (2024)
• Geographic disparities and predictors of COVID-19 vaccination in Missouri: a retrospective ecological study , FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH (2024)
• Modeling county level COVID-19 transmission in the greater St. Louis area: Challenges of uncertainty and identifiability when fitting mechanistic models to time-varying processes , MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES (2024)
• Quantifying trade-offs between therapeutic efficacy and resistance dissemination for enrofloxacin dose regimens in cattle , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2024)
• The contribution of community transmission to the burden of hospital-associated pathogens: A systematic scoping review of epidemiological models , ONE HEALTH (2024)
• The effect of temporal resolution and contact duration on Real-Time location system-based contact networks for confined feedlot cattle , PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE (2024)
• Distilling Mechanistic Models From Multi-Omics Data , (2023)

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