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Justen, L.*, Rushford, C.*, Hershey, O., Floyd-O’Sullivan, R., Grimm, S., Bradshaw, W., …, Sabeti, P., Kaufman, J., Johnson, M. (2026). Deep untargeted wastewater metagenomic sequencing from sewersheds across the United States. medRxiv. (* co-first authors)

Justen, L.*, Bhasin, H.*, Cunningham-Bryant, D., Esvelt, K., Sabeti, P. (2026). Leveraging the U.S. blood supply to detect emerging viral threats. medRxiv. (* co-first authors)

Justen, L. (2025). LLMs Outperform Experts on Challenging Biology Benchmarks. arXiv [cs.CY].

Götting, J., Medeiros, P., Sanders, J., Li, N., Phan, L., Karam, E., Justen, L., Hendrycks, D., Donoughe, S. (2025). Virology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark. arXiv [cs.CY].

Carline, K., González, J. A. R., Sajjad, W., Justen, L. (2025). A Primer on Pathogen Research and Biological Weapons. The Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology Summit.

Justen, L., Grimm, S., Esvelt, K., & Bradshaw W. (2025). Indoor Air Sampling for Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids. Journal of Aerosol Science.

Li, N., Pan, A., Gopal, A., …, Justen, L., …, Esvelt K., Wang A., Hendrycks, D. (2024). The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

Gopal, A., Helm-Burger, N., Justen, L., Soice, E., Tzeng, T., Jeyapragasan, G., Grimm, S., Mueller, B., & Esvelt, K. (2023). Will releasing the weights of future large language models grant widespread access to pandemic agents? arXiv [cs.AI].

Görlitz, M.*, Justen, L.*, Rochette, P., …, Brenner, D., Sliney D., Esvelt, K. (2023). Assessing the safety of new germicidal far-UVC technologies. Photochemistry and Photobiology. (* co-first authors)

Justen, L., Müller, K., Niemann, M., & Becker, J. (2022). No Time like the Present: Effects of Language Change on Automated Comment Moderation. 2022 IEEE 24th Conference on Business Informatics.

Justen, L., Carlsmith, D., Paskewitz, S., Bartholomay, L., & Bron, G. (2021). Identification of public submitted tick images: A neural network approach. PloS ONE.