Charles Kazilek

In 1999, Kazilek began a collaboration with Gene Valentine (b: July 29, 1938 | d: February 22, 2022) and later Jennifer Tsukiama that became the Paper Project. The project combined science and art and would ultimately produce printed canvas works, 3-D anaglyph work, a 3-D dance performance, and a room installation that allowed visitors to explore the three-dimensional structure of historic and contemporary handmade paper. The experience provided an early form of virtual reality VR. The final canvases were displayed at the Paper Discovery Center in Appleton, Wisconsin, the Arizona Science Center, the Dard Hunter Studio in Utah, and Arizona State University. The performance was part of the American College Dance Festival in 2002. Some of Kazilek's microscopy images from the Paper Project have also been featured in Nikon Small World (2004, 2006, 2008, and 2017) and in one instance (2004) displayed on Times Square to start the year-long traveling tour.^[3][4]

Among the works in Kazilek's artistic portfolio is a piece created in 2008, based on a newly discovered whirligig beetle named after singer Roy Orbison, Orectochilus orbisonorum. Kazilek created a commemorative digital watercolor presentation piece titled "Whirligig" that featured nine images of the beetle in the style of Andy Warhol.^[5][6]

In 1997, Kazilek launched the Ask A Biologist website. What began as a single webpage that partnered questions submitted by K-12 students with answers from university biology professors and graduate students, now offers more than 4,000 pages of multimedia content. Accessed by millions annually, Ask A Biologist offers students, teachers, and life-long learners biology learning materials that range from stories, activities, games, gamelets (short-play games), escape room experiences, and videos to podcasts.^[7][8]

One particularly unique feature of the website is the collection of 360-degree experiences and their related content. These virtual tours make use of VR photography allowing visitors to explore many of the biomes of the world using a desktop, laptop, or mobile device including phones.^[9]

An educational escape room is based on earlier escape room video games and is a style of puzzle-based learning that is well suited for web-based games, which also provide access to a larger audience. In 2012, the Ask A Biologist website trialed this by building "Science Detectives: Training Room Escape," a click-through online escape room for preK-12 learners that combined fun with using the scientific method to succeed. Kazilek sees escape rooms as a natural problem-solving environment. The game has been played more than 170,000 times, and one student commented, "It's okay to trick us into learning."^[10]

• Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) – 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).^[11]
• Donald J. Nash Memorial Award, 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division (SWARM)
• 2005 Classics Award Winner for Teacher Education. Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).^[12]

• Chandler, Douglas E.; Merkle, Carrie J.; Kazilek, Charles J. (1989). "Detection of Calcium Signals in Neutrophils Using Fluorescent Dyes". Luminescence Applications. ACS Symposium Series. Vol. 383. American Chemical Society. pp. 70–83. doi:10.1021/bk-1989-0383.ch005. ISBN 978-0-8412-1560-3.
• Peter Gentenaar, Gangolf Ulbricht, John Risseeuw, Gene Valentine, Charles Kazilek. 2002. Timeless Paper. Compress Bv, Paperback, 240 pp. ISBN 90-73803-03-9
• David L. Pearson, C. Barry Knisley, Charles J. Kazilek. 2006 Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada. Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelidae. Oxford University Press. 292 pp. ISBN 0-19-518156-5
• David L. Pearson, C. Barry Knisley, Charles J. Kazilek, Daniel Paul Duran. 2015. Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada (2nd Edition) Identification, Natural History, and Distribution of the Cicindelidae. Oxford University Press. 232 pp. ISBN 0-19-936718-3

• Charles Kazilek, Frederic Martini, Kim Cooper, Lucia Tranel, Alice Mills. 1998. Instructor's Manual Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology (Fourth Edition). Prentice-Hall. 237 pp. ISBN 0-13-751728-9
• Charles Kazilek, Frederic Martini, Kim Cooper. 2001. Instructor's Manual Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology (Fifth Edition). Prentice-Hall. 229 pp. ISBN 0-13-019676-2
• Charles Kazilek, Frederic Martini, Kim Cooper. 2004. Instructor's Manual Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology (6th Edition). Prentice-Hall. 392 pp. ISBN 0-13-046409-0
• Alan D. Magid, Charles Kazilek and Kim Cooper. 2006. Instructor's Manual Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology (7th Edition). Pearson Benjamin Cummings. 245 pp. ISBN 0-8053-7281-4
• Alan D. Magid, Charles Kazilek and Kim Cooper. 2009. Instructor's Manual Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology (8th Edition). Pearson Benjamin Cummings. pp 147. ISBN 9780321510976

• Chandler, Douglas E.; Kazilek, Charles J. (1986). "Chemotactic peptide-induced exocytosis in neutrophils: Granule fusion patterns depend on the source of messenger calcium". Journal of Cell Science. 83: 293–311. doi:10.1242/jcs.83.1.293. PMID 3100542.
• Chandler, Douglas E.; Kazilek, Charles J. (1986). "Extracellular coats on the surface of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus eggs: Stereo electron microscopy of quick-frozen and deep-etched specimens". Cell and Tissue Research. 246 (1): 153–161. doi:10.1007/BF00219012. PMID 3779797.
• Chandler, Douglas E.; Kazilek, Charles J. (1987). "Calcium signals in neutrophils can be divided into three distinct phases". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 931 (2): 175–179. doi:10.1016/0167-4889(87)90204-7. PMID 3663715.
• Kazilek, C. J.; Merkle, C. J.; Chandler, D. E. (1988). "Hyperosmotic inhibition of calcium signals and exocytosis in rabbit neutrophils". American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology. 254 (5): C709–C718. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.1988.254.5.C709. PMID 3364556.
• Racowsky, C.; Baldwin, K. V.; Larabell, C. A.; Demarais, A. A.; Kazilek, C. J. (1989). "Down-regulation of membrana granulosa cell gap junctions is correlated with irreversible commitment to resume meiosis in golden Syrian hamster oocytes". European Journal of Cell Biology. 49 (2): 244–251. PMID 2776774.
• Sharp, W. P.; Kazilek, C. J. (1990). "Scanning Light Microscopy: Maximize Sharpness and Contrast" (PDF). Darkroom and Creative Camera Techniques. 11 (1): 43–45.
• Sharp, W. P., C. J. Kazilek, 1991. Scanning Light Microscopy. In Controlling Color Photography, Preston Publications, Chapter 4: pg 31–33.
• Satterlie, Richard A.; Norekian, Tigran P.; Jordan, Sheryl; Kazilek, Charles J. (1995). "Serotonergic Modulation of Swimming Speed in the Pteropod Mollusc Clione Limacina: I. Serotonin Immunoreactivity in the Central Nervous System and Wings". Journal of Experimental Biology. 198 (4): 895–904. Bibcode:1995JExpB.198..895S. doi:10.1242/jeb.198.4.895. PMID 7730752.
• Caitlin M. Schrein; John M. Lynch; Sarah K. Brem; Gary E. Marchant; Karen Schedler; Mark A. Spencer; Charles J. Kazilek; Margaret G. Coulombe (2009). "Preparing Teachers to Prepare Students for Post-Secondary Science: Observations From a Workshop About Evolution in the Classroom". The Journal of Effective Teaching. 9 (2): 68–79.
• Kazilek, Charles (2010). "Got a Question? "Ask a Biologist"". Science. 330 (6008): 1192–1193. Bibcode:2010Sci...330.1192K. doi:10.1126/science.1186993. PMID 21109662.
• Kazilek, Charles (2010). "Ask a Biologist: Bringing Science to the Public". PLOS Biology. 8 (10) e1000458. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000458. PMC 2953523. PMID 20967230.