Anne Vardo-Zalik

Assistant Professor of Biology

0118 Main Classroom Building
York, PA 17403
She/Her
amv12@psu.edu
717-771-4000

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Research Summary

The ecology and population genetics of malaria parasites and their vectors

Huck Affiliations

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Center for Malaria Research

Publication Tags

Malaria Infection Parasites Kenya Genes Plasmodium Polymerase Chain Reaction Population Insecticides Epidemiology Psychodidae Lizards Infections Genome Culicidae Plasmodium Falciparum China Leukocytes Insect Vectors Parasite Wolbachia Lutzomyia Myanmar Anopheles Gambiae Genetic Variation

Most Recent Papers

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,

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

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, 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. L. Hughes, S. K. Samuels, K. Shaikh, J. L. 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

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

Genetic diversity of Plasmodium vivax malaria in China and Myanmar

Daibin Zhong, Mariangela Bonizzoni, Guofa Zhou, Guangze Wang, Bin Chen, Anne Vardo-Zalik, Liwang Cui, Guiyun Yan, Bin Zheng, 2011, Infection, Genetics and Evolution on p. 1419-1425

Changing patterns of malaria epidemiology between 2002 and 2010 in western kenya

Guofa Zhou, Yaw A. Afrane, Anne M. Vardo-Zalik, Harrysone Atieli, Daibin Zhong, Peter Wamae, Yousif E. Himeidan, Noboru Minakawa, Andrew K. Githeko, Guiyun Yan, 2011, PLoS One

Most-Cited Papers