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PhD Scientific & Medical Editor | Manuscripts, Grants, Reviews | Ecology, Microbiology, One Health
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Clinical Trial Documentation,
Medical Writing,
Non-Medical Regulatory Writing,
Technical Writing,
Newswriting,
General Proofreading & Editing
Research
Fact Checking,
Scientific and Technical Research,
Systematic Literature Review,
Secondary Data Collection
Consulting
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Predictive Modeling,
Statistical Analysis,
Data Visualization,
Big Data Analytics,
Data Cleaning,
Data Processing
Work Experience
Adjoint Professor
University of Colorado Denver
June 2025 - Present
Associate Curator of Mammals, Zoology
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
October 2024 - Present
Postdoctoral Associate
Scripps Research Institute
March 2022 - Present ![]()
Project Scientist III
UCSD School of Medicine
June 2020 - March 2022
Assistant Project Scientist
University of California, San Diego
January 2020 - March 2022 ![]()
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California San Diego
January 2019 - December 2019 ![]()
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Chicago
January 2017 - December 2018 ![]()
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Evolutionary Biology, Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Cornell University
September 2011 - May 2016
PhD (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences)
Cornell University
2011 - 2016 ![]()
AB (Biological Sciences Division)
University of Chicago
2005 - 2009 ![]()
Certifications
- Certification details not provided.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Konstans Wells, Jeffrey A. Bell, Alan Fecchio, Serguei Drovetski, Spencer Galen, Shannon Hackett, Holly Lutz, Heather R. Skeen, Gary Voelker, Wanyoike Wamiti, et al. (2025). Parasite Abundance‐Occupancy Relationships Across Biogeographic Regions: Joint Effects of Niche Breadth, Host Availability and Climate . Journal of Biogeography.
Holly L. Lutz, Elizabeth A. Herder, Heather R. Skeen, Sarah M. Hird, Kevin R. Theis (2023). Body Size Poorly Predicts Host-Associated Microbial Diversity in Wild Birds . Microbiology Spectrum.
Holly L. Lutz, Jack A. Gilbert, Carl W. Dick(2022). Associations between Afrotropical bats, eukaryotic parasites, and microbial symbionts . Molecular Ecology. 31. (7). p. 1939--1950. Wiley
Holly L. Lutz, Sho M. Kodera, Promi Das, Jack A. Gilbert(2022). Conceptual strategies for characterizing interactions in microbial communities . iScience. 25. (2). p. 103775. Elsevier {BV}
Holly L. Lutz, Hemraj B. Dodiya, Ian Q. Weigle, Priyam Patel, Julia Michalkiewicz, Carlos J. Roman-Santiago, Can Martin Zhang, Yingxia Liang, Abhinav Srinath, Xulun Zhang, et al. (2022). Gut microbiota–driven brain Aβ amyloidosis in mice requires microglia . Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Ozen S, Lutz HL, Rivera VM, Reiff A, Batu ED, Anderson E, Salas Garcia M, Aldrovandi G, Akbaba TH, Pazarbasi İ, et al.(2021). Microbiome is not linked to clinical disease severity of familial Mediterranean fever in an international cohort of children . Clinical and experimental rheumatology.
(2021). Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network . PLoS pathogens.
Holly L. Lutz, Elliot W. Jackson, Roland C. Wilhelm, Mitchell R. Johnson, Isabelle Danforth, Joseph K. Gaydos, Michael W. Hart, Ian Hewson, Julie K. Pfeiffer(2020). Diversity of Sea Star-Associated Densoviruses and Transcribed Endogenous Viral Elements of Densovirus Origin . Journal of Virology. 95. (1). American Society for Microbiology
Sara E Miller and Lisa N Barrow and Sean M Ehlman and Jessica A Goodheart and Stephen E Greiman and Holly L Lutz and Tracy M Misiewicz and Stephanie M Smith and Milton Tan and Christopher J Thawley and Joseph A Cook and Jessica E Light(2020). Building Natural History Collections for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond . BioScience. 70. (8). p. 674--687. Oxford University Press ({OUP})
Holly L. Lutz, Se Jin Song, Jon G. Sanders, Frédéric Delsuc, Jessica Metcalf, Katherine Amato, Michael W. Taylor, Florent Mazel, Kevin Winker, Gary R. Graves, et al.(2020). Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats . mBio. 11. (1). American Society for Microbiology
Alan Fecchio and Jeffrey A. Bell and Mariane Bosholn and Jefferson A. Vaughan and Vasyl V. Tkach and Holly L. Lutz et al.(2020). An inverse latitudinal gradient in infection probability and phylogenetic diversity for
Leucocytozoon
blood parasites in New World birds . Journal of Animal Ecology. 89. (2). p. 423--435. Wiley
Terrence C. Demos and Paul W. Webala and Holly L. Lutz and Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans and Steven M. Goodman and Natalia Cort{\'{e}}s-Delgado and Michael Bartonjo and Bruce D. Patterson(2020). Multilocus phylogeny of a cryptic radiation of Afrotropical long‐fingered bats (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae) . Zoologica Scripta. 49. (1). p. 1--13. Wiley
Holly L. Lutz, Elliot W. Jackson, Paul W. Webala, Waswa S. Babyesiza, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Terrence C. Demos, Bruce D. Patterson, Jack A. Gilbert, Nicole S. Webster (2019). Ecology and Host Identity Outweigh Evolutionary History in Shaping the Bat Microbiome . mSystems.
Caleb D Phillips and Jonathan L Dunnum and Robert C Dowler and Lisa C Bradley and Heath J Garner and Kathryn A MacDonald and Burton K Lim and Marcia A Revelez and Mariel L Campbell and Holly L Lutz and Nict{\'{e}} Ord{\'{o}}{\~{n}}ez Garza and Joseph A Cook and Robert D Bradley and Sergio Ticul Alvarez-Casta{\~{n}}eda and Jeff E Bradley and Robert D Bradley and Leslie N Carraway and Juan P Carrera-E and Christopher J Conroy and Brandi S Coyner and John R Demboski and Carl W Dick and Robert C Dowler and Kate Doyle and Jonathan L Dunnum and Jacob A Esselstyn and Eliecer Guti{\'{e}}rrez and John D Hanson and Paula M Holahan and Thorvald Holmes and Carlos A Iudica and Rafael N Leite and Thomas E Lee and Burton K Lim and Jason L Malaney and Bryan S McLean and Suzanne B McLaren and Nancy D Moncrief and Link Olson and Nicte Ord{\'{o}}{\~{n}}ez-Garza and Caleb D Phillips and Marcia A Revelez and Eric A Rickart and Duke S Rogers and Cody W Thompson and Nathan S Upham and Paul M Velazco and(2019). Curatorial guidelines and standards of the American Society of Mammalogists for collections of genetic resources . Journal of Mammalogy. 100. (5). p. 1690--1694. Oxford University Press ({OUP})
Holly L. Lutz, S. Tabita Ramírez-Puebla, Lisa Abbo, Amber Durand, Cathleen Schlundt, Neil R. Gottel, Alexandra K. Sjaarda, Roger T. Hanlon, Jack A. Gilbert, Jessica L. Mark Welch, et al.(2019). A Simple Microbiome in the European Common Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis . mSystems. 4. (4). American Society for Microbiology
Lisa N. Barrow and Sabrina M. McNew and Nora Mitchell and Spencer C. Galen and Holly L. Lutz and Heather Skeen and Thomas Valqui and Jason D. Weckstein and Christopher C. Witt(2019). Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi‐host, multi‐parasite system . Ecology Letters. 22. (6). p. 987--998. Wiley
Holly L. Lutz, S. Tabita Ramírez-Puebla, Lisa Abbo, Amber Durand, Cathleen Schlundt, Neil R. Gottel, Alexandra K. Sjaarda, Roger T. Hanlon, Jack A. Gilbert, Jessica L. Mark Welch, et al. (2019). A Simple Microbiome in the European Common Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis . mSystems.
Holly L. Lutz, Alan Fecchio, Jeffrey A. Bell, Rafael B.P. Pinheiro, Victor R. Cueto, Cristian A. Gorosito, Milene G. Gaiotti, Luciana V. Paiva, Leonardo F. França, Guilherme Toledo‐Lima, et al. (2019). Avian host composition, local speciation and dispersal drive the regional assembly of avian malaria parasites in South American birds . Molecular Ecology.
Holly L. Lutz, Alan Fecchio, Konstans Wells, Jeffrey A. Bell, Vasyl V. Tkach, Jason D. Weckstein, Sonya M. Clegg, Nicholas J. Clark, Peter Thrall(2019). Climate variation influences host specificity in avian malaria parasites . Ecology Letters. 22. (3). p. 547--557. Wiley
Lutz, H.L., Patterson, B.D., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Stanley, W.T., Webala, P.W., Gnoske, T.P., Hackett, S.J., Stanhope, M.J.(2016). Diverse sampling of East African haemosporidians reveals chiropteran origin of malaria parasites in primates and rodents . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99. p. 7-15.
Lutz, H.L., Marra, N.J., Grewe, F., Carlson, J.S., Palinauskas, V., Valkiūnas, G., Stanhope, M.J.(2016). Laser capture microdissection microscopy and genome sequencing of the avian malaria parasite, Plasmodium relictum . Parasitology Research. 115. (12). p. 4503-4510.
Lutz, H.L., Hochachka, W.M., Engel, J.I., Bell, J.A., Tkach, V.V., Bates, J.M., Hackett, S.J., Weckstein, J.D.(2015). Parasite prevalence corresponds to host life history in a diverse assemblage of afrotropical birds and haemosporidian parasites . PLoS ONE. 10. (4).
Lutz, H.L., Hochachka, W.M., Engel, J.I., Bell, J.A., Tkach, V.V., Bates, J.M., Hackett, S.J., Weckstein, J.D.(2015). Correction: Parasite prevalence corresponds to host life history in a diverse assemblage of afrotropical birds and haemosporidian parasites . PLoS ONE. 10. (5).
Lutz, H.L., Hochachka, W.M., Engel, J.I., Bell, J.A., Tkach, V.V., Bates, J.M., Hackett, S.J., Weckstein, J.D.(2015). Parasite prevalence corresponds to host life history in a diverse assemblage of afrotropical birds and haemosporidian parasites . PLoS ONE. 10. (4).
Lutz, H.L., Weckstein, J.D., Patané, J.S.L., Bates, J.M., Aleixo, A.(2013). Biogeography and spatio-temporal diversification of Selenidera and Andigena Toucans (Aves: Ramphastidae) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69. (3). p. 873-883.
PREPRINT
Holly L. Lutz, Justin P. Shaffer, Louis-Félix Nothias, Luke R. Thompson, Jon G. Sanders, Rodolfo A. Salido, Sneha P. Couvillion, Asker D. Brejnrod, Shi Huang, Franck Lejzerowicz, et al.(2021). Multi-omics profiling of Earth’s biomes reveals that microbial and metabolite composition are shaped by the environment . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Holly L. Lutz, Elliot W. Jackson, Roland C. Wilhelm, Mitchell R. Johnson, Isabelle Danforth, Joseph K. Gaydos, Michael W. Hart, Ian Hewson (2020). Diversity of sea star-associated densoviruses and transcribed endogenized viral elements of densovirus origin .
OTHER
Holly L. Lutz, Elliot W. Jackson, Roland C. Wilhelm, Mitchell R. Johnson, Isabelle Danforth, Joseph K. Gaydos, Michael W. Hart, Ian Hewson(2020). Diversity of sea star-associated densoviruses and transcribed endogenized viral elements of densovirus origin . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Holly L. Lutz, S. Tabita Ramírez-Puebla, Lisa Abbo, Amber Durand, Cathleen Schlundt, Neil Gottel, Alexandra K. Sjaarda, Roger T. Hanlon, Jack A. Gilbert, Jessica L. Mark Welch(2018). A simple microbiome in the European common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
L. Lutz Holly, W. Jackson Elliot, W. Dick Carl, W. Webala Paul, S. Babyesiza Waswa, C. Kerbis Peterhans Julian, C. Demos Terrence, D. Patterson Bruce, A. Gilbert Jack(2018). Associations between Afrotropical bats, parasites, and microbial symbionts . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
BOOK CHAPTER
Holly L. Lutz and Sophia Carryl and Rachel M. Santymire(2019). Wildlife Microbial Genomics and Endocrinology . Microbial Ecology: Current Advances from Genomics, Metagenomics and Other Omics. Caister Academic Press
Methods for Specimen-based Studies of Avian Symbionts @book{2017, doi = {10.1201/9781315120454}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1201%2F9781315120454}, year = 2017, month = {jul}, publisher = {{CRC} Press}, title = {The Extended Specimen}} . The Extended Specimen: Emerging Frontiers in Collections-Based Ornithological Research.