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CiBO Technologies (St. Louis, MO): July 2017 - October 31, 2025
Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) → March 2021 - October 31, 2025
Interim Lead of Infrastructure → April 2020 - March 2021
Engagement Engineering Lead (Project Lead / Software Engineer) → July 2017 - April 2020
Nanaya (St. Louis, MO): July 2014 - Present
Co-founder / Infrastructure & Sofware Engineer / Statistician
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO)
Senior Computational Scientist → December 2014 - July 2017
B.A. Mathematics, 2008 Probability and Statistics Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph Ballenger, Samuel Kenney, Jared Gordon, Leonardo Chavez, Joseph G. Duenwald, Katherine M. Murphy, Leonardo W. Lima, Cesar Lizarraga, Malia A. Gehan. Raspberry Pi–powered temperature monitoring of growth chamber microclimates. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.70022 (2025)
Agnew Erica , Ziegler Greg , Lee Scott , Lizárraga César , Fahlgren Noah , Baxter Ivan , Mockler Todd C. , Shakoor Nadia. Longitudinal genome-wide association study reveals early QTL that predict biomass accumulation under cold stress in sorghum. Frontiers in Plant Science Volume 15 - 2024 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2024.1278802 ISSN=1664-462X
Nadia Shakoor, Erica Agnew, Greg Ziegler, Scott Lee, César Lizárraga, Noah Fahlgren, Ivan Baxter, Todd C. Mockler. Genomewide association study reveals transient loci underlying the genetic architecture of biomass accumulation under cold stress in Sorghum. bioRxiv 760025; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/760025 (2019)
Erica Agnew, Adam Bray, Eric Floro, Nate Ellis, John Gierer, César Lizárraga, Darren O’Brien, Madeline Wiechert, Todd C. Mockler, Nadia Shakoor, Christopher N. Topp. Whole‐Plant Manual and Image‐Based Phenotyping in Controlled Environments. Plant Biology 2(1):1-21. https://doi.org/10.1002/cppb.20044 (2017)
He Huang, Malia A. Gehan, Sarah E. Huss, Sophie Alvarez, Cesar Lizarraga, Ellen L. Gruebbling, John Gierer, Michael J. Naldrett, Rebecca K. Bindbeutel, Bradley S. Evans, Todd C. Mockler, Dmitri A. Nusinow. Cross‐species complementation reveals conserved functions for EARLY FLOWERING 3 between monocots and dicots. Plant Direct 1:4 https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.18 (2017)
Gehan MA, Fahlgren N, Abbasi A, Berry JC, Callen ST, Chavez L, Doust AN, Feldman MJ, Gilbert KB, Hodge JG, Hoyer JS, Lin A, Liu S, Lizárraga C, Lorence A, Miller M, Platon E, Tessman M, Sax T. PlantCV v2: Image analysis software for high-throughput plant phenotyping. PeerJ. 2017 Dec 1;5:e4088. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4088. PMID: 29209576; PMCID: PMC5713628.
Laura Rayhel, B.A., Copper Aitken-Palmer, D.V.M., Ph.D., Priscilla Joyner, B.Sc., B.V.M.S., Carolyn Cray, Ph.D., César Andrés Lizárraga, B.A., Betty Ackerman, M.T. (A.S.C.P.), and Chris Crowe, B.S. Hematology and biochemistry in captive white-naped cranes (Grus VIPIO). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 46(4):747-754. http://dx.doi.org/10.1638/2015-0027.1 (2015)
Skyler Mitchell, Stuart Marshall, Stephanie Turnipseed, Luke Burnham, César Lizárraga, Jared Streich, Rob Alba, and Todd C. Mockler (2015) “Effect of drought treatments on transpiration rate and stomatal density in Brachypodium distachyon.” Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Missouri Botanical Gardens Joint Fall Symposium, St. Louis, MO, October 2015
César A. Lizárraga, Henry D. Priest, Noah Fahlgren, Rob Alba, and Todd C. Mockler. Bioinformatics Pipelines for Purple False Brome (Brachypodium distachyon) Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO. (2015)
Cesar Lizarraga, Stuart Marshall, Bradley Flynn, Nadia Shakoor and Todd C. Mockler. PhenoPiSight: Fixed Camera Greenhouse-based Phenotyping Platform. (2016)