Anne Vardo-Zalik
Assistant Professor of Biology
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0118 Main Classroom Building
York, PA 17403 - She/Her
- amv12@psu.edu
- 717-771-4000
Research Summary
The ecology and population genetics of malaria parasites and their vectors
Huck Affiliations
Most Recent Publications
Pennsylvania’s appalachian bat count: Trends from summer roost surveys and a comparison of surveys before and after the arrival of white-nose syndrome
Nathan Zalik, Anne Vardo-Zalik, Calvin Butchkoski,
Drought correlates with reduced infection complexity and possibly prevalence in a decades-long study of the lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium mexicanum
Allison Neal, Joshua Sassi, Anne Vardo-Zalik, 2023, PeerJ
Epidemiological risk factors for clinical malaria infection in the highlands of Western Kenya
Walters M. Essendi, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, Eugenia Lo, Maxwell G. Machani, Guofa Zhou, Andrew K. Githeko, Guiyun Yan, Yaw A. Afrane, 2019, Malaria Journal
Impacts of antimalarial drugs on plasmodium falciparum drug resistance markers, Western Kenya, 2003-2015
Elizabeth Hemming-Schroeder, Emuejevuoke Umukoro, Eugenia Lo, Becky Fung, Pedro Tomás-Domingo, Guofa Zhou, Daibin Zhong, Amruta Dixit, Harrysone Atieli, Andrew Githeko, Anne Vardo-Zalik, Guiyun Yan, 2018, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on p. 692-699
Genetic differentiation over a small spatial scale of the sand fly Lutzomyia vexator (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Allison T. Neal, Max S. Ross, Jos J. Schall, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, 2016, Parasites and Vectors on p. 1-9
Leukocyte profiles for western fence lizards, sceloporus occidentalis, naturally infected by the malaria parasite plasmodium mexicanum
Victoria L. Motz, Victoria Motz-Patel, William D. Lewis, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, 2014, Journal of Parasitology on p. 592-597
Discrimination of the Plasmodium mexicanum vectors Lutzomyia stewarti and Lutzomyia vexator by a PCR-RFLP assay and Wolbachia infection
G. Hughes, S. Samuels, K. Shaikh, Jason Rasgon, A. M. Vardo-Zalik, 2014, Journal of Vector Ecology on p. 224-227
Alterations in Plasmodium falciparum genetic structure two years after increased malaria control efforts in western Kenya
Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, Guofa Zhou, Daibin Zhong, Yaw A. Afrane, Andrew K. Githeko, Guiyun Yan, 2013, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on p. 29-36
The effects of available glucose concentration on the population dynamics of growing Escherichia coli cultures
Shehzad Siddique, Anne Vardo-Zalik, 2012, John T. and Paige S. Smith Undergraduate Science Research Symposium Proceedings on p. 7-12
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of genes associated with acute desiccation stress in Anopheles gambiae
Mei Hui Wang, Osvaldo Marinotti, Anne Vardo-Zalik, Rajni Boparai, Guiyun Yan, 2011, PLoS One
Most-Cited Papers
Impacts of antimalarial drugs on plasmodium falciparum drug resistance markers, Western Kenya, 2003-2015
Elizabeth Hemming-Schroeder, Emuejevuoke Umukoro, Eugenia Lo, Becky Fung, Pedro Tomás-Domingo, Guofa Zhou, Daibin Zhong, Amruta Dixit, Harrysone Atieli, Andrew Githeko, Anne Vardo-Zalik, Guiyun Yan, 2018, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on p. 692-699
Epidemiological risk factors for clinical malaria infection in the highlands of Western Kenya
Walters M. Essendi, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, Eugenia Lo, Maxwell G. Machani, Guofa Zhou, Andrew K. Githeko, Guiyun Yan, Yaw A. Afrane, 2019, Malaria Journal
Genetic differentiation over a small spatial scale of the sand fly Lutzomyia vexator (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Allison T. Neal, Max S. Ross, Jos J. Schall, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, 2016, Parasites and Vectors on p. 1-9
Leukocyte profiles for western fence lizards, sceloporus occidentalis, naturally infected by the malaria parasite plasmodium mexicanum
Victoria L. Motz, Victoria Motz-Patel, William D. Lewis, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, 2014, Journal of Parasitology on p. 592-597
Discrimination of the Plasmodium mexicanum vectors Lutzomyia stewarti and Lutzomyia vexator by a PCR-RFLP assay and Wolbachia infection
G. Hughes, S. Samuels, K. Shaikh, Jason Rasgon, A. M. Vardo-Zalik, 2014, Journal of Vector Ecology on p. 224-227
Drought correlates with reduced infection complexity and possibly prevalence in a decades-long study of the lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium mexicanum
Allison Neal, Joshua Sassi, Anne Vardo-Zalik, 2023, PeerJ