Anne Vardo-Zalik

Assistant Professor of Biology

Anne Vardo-Zalik

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