Current Lab Members

• Serap Aksoy, Ph.D.
• Geoffrey Attardo, Ph.D.
• Michelle Bailly, M.S.
• Josh Benoit, Ph.D.
• Oleg Kruglov
• Laura Cronin
• Michele Maltz, Ph.D.
• Veronika Michalkova
• Amy Savage, Ph.D.
• Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva
• Erich Telleria, Ph.D.
• Jingwen Wang, Ph.D.
• Brian Weiss, Ph.D.
• Xin Zhao, Ph.D.
• Yineng Wu, M.Sc.

Past Lab Members

• Leyla Akman, Ph.D.
• Uzma Alam, Ph.D.
• Corey Brelsfoard, Ph.D.
• Xiao-ai Chen, Ph.D.
• Quing Cheng, Ph.D.
• Nurper Guz
• Zhengrong Hao, Ph.D.
• Changyun Hu, Ph.D.
• Youjia Hu, Ph.D.
• Song Li, Ph.D.
• Claudia Lohs
• Dana Nayduch, Ph.D.
• Roshan Pais, Ph.D.
• Sarah Perkin, Ph.D.
• Sandesh Regmi, Ph.D.
• Rita Rio, Ph.D.
• Patricia Strickler-Dinglasan Ph.D.
• Guangxiao Yang, Ph.D.
• Jian Yang, Ph.D.
• Suleyman Yildirim, Ph.D.

Veronika Michalkova

Lab Phone: (203) 737-4134
Fax: (203) 785-4782
Email: veronika.michalkova@savba.sk

Publications

Benoit JB, Attardo GM, Michalkova V, Takac P, Bohova J, Aksoy S. Sphingomyelinase Activity in Mother's Milk Is Essential for Juvenile Development: A Case from Lactating Tsetse Flies. Biol Reprod. 2012 Apr 18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 22517621.

Attardo GM, Benoit JB, Michalkova V, Yang G, Roller L, Bohova J, Takáč P, Aksoy S. Analysis of lipolysis underlying lactation in the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2012 May;42(5):360-70. PubMed PMID: 22509523.

Korenko S, Michalková V, Zwakhals K, Pekár S. Host specificity and temporal and seasonal shifts in host preference of a web-spider parasitoid Zatypota percontatoria. J Insect Sci. 2011;11:101. PubMed PMID: 22216929; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3281363.

V. Michalková, S. Pekár. How glyphosate altered the behaviour of agrobiont spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) and beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Biological Control, Volume 51, Issue 3, December 2009, Pages 444-449, ISSN 1049-9644, 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.08.003.

Valigurová A, Michalková V, Koudela B. Eugregarine trophozoite detachment from the host epithelium via epimerite retraction: fiction or fact? Int J Parasitol. 2009 Sep;39(11):1235-42. Epub 2009 May 19. PubMed PMID: 19460380.

Michalková V, Valigurová A, Dindo ML, Vanhara J. Larval morphology and anatomy of the parasitoid Exorista larvarum (Diptera: Tachinidae), with an emphasis on cephalopharyngeal skeleton and digestive tract. J Parasitol. 2009 Jun;95(3):544-54. PubMed PMID: 18942884.