Korpe P, Chilufya R, Maradana MR, Greigert V, Pallett M, Nötzel C, Walzer KA, Balestra A, Key M, Shaw S, Baragaña B, and Meyers MJ (2026). The second Cryptosporidium meeting: Edinburgh’s parasite deep dive. Trends in Parasitology. 42(8): 674-679.
Wallbank BA, Smith EJ, Dumaine Carrasco JE, Xiao R, Walzer KA, Riley JR, and Striepen B. (2025). Cryptosporidium aspartyl protease 2 is required for host cell egress of merozoites and male gametes. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbcE25060306.
Walzer KA, Tandel J, Byerly JH, Daniels AM, Gullicksrud JA, Whelan EC, Carro SD, Krespan E, Beiting DP, and Striepen B. (2024). Transcriptional control of the Cryptosporidium life cycle. Nature. 630, 174-180.
Pardy RD, Walzer KA, Wallbank BA, Byerly JH, O’Dea KM, Cohn IS, Haskins BE, Roncaioli JL, Smith EJ, Buenconsejo GY, Striepen B, and Hunter CA. (2024). Analysis of intestinal epithelial cell responses to Cryptosporidium highlights the temporal effects of IFN-γ on parasite restriction. PLoS Pathogens. 20(5): e1011820.
Tandel J, Walzer KA, Byerly JH, Pinkston B, Beiting DP, and Striepen B. (2023). Genetic ablation of a female specific Apetala 2 transcription factor blocks oocyst shedding in Cryptosporidium parvum. mBio.14(2):e0326122.
Walzer KA, Fradin H, Emerson LY, Corcoran DL, and Chi JT. (2019). Latent transcriptional variations of individual Plasmodium falciparum uncovered by single-cell RNA-seq and fluorescence imaging. PLoS Genetics. 15(12): e1008506.
Yang WH*, Doss JF*, Walzer KA*, McNulty SM, Wu J, Roback JD, and Chi JT. (2019). Angiogenin-mediated tRNA cleavage as a novel feature of stored red blood cells. British Journal of Haematology. 185: 752-806. [*co-first authors]
Walzer KA, Kubicki DM, Tang X, and Chi JT. (2018). Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Distinct Gene Expression and Heterogeneity in Male and Female Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes. mSphere. 3:e00130-18.
Walzer KA and Chi JT. (2017). Trans-kingdom small RNA transfer during host-pathogen interactions: The case of P. falciparum and erythrocytes. RNA Biology. 14(4): 442-449.
Park HS, Rinehart MT, Walzer KA, Chi JT, and Wax A. (2016). Automated Detection of P. falciparum Using Machine Learning Algorithms with Quantitative Phase Images of Unstained Cells. PLoS ONE. 11(9): e0163045.
Rinehart MT, Park HS, Walzer KA, Chi JT, and Wax A. (2016). Hemoglobin consumption by P. falciparum in individual erythrocytes imaged via quantitative phase spectroscopy. Scientific Reports. 6: 24461.
Healy JA, Nugent A, Rempel RE, Moffitt AB, Davis NS, Jiang X, Shingleton JR, Zhang J, Love C, Datta J, McKinney ME, Tzeng TJ, Wettschureck N, Offermanns S, Walzer KA, Chi JT, Rasheed SAK, Casey PJ, Lossos IS, and Dave SS. (2016). GNA13 loss in germinal center B cells leads to impaired apoptosis and GC B cell persistence and promotes lymphoma in vivo. Blood. 127(22): 2723-31.
LaMonte G*, Walzer KA*, Lacsina JR, Nicchitta CV, and Chi JT. (2015). Methods to investigate the regulatory role of small RNAs and ribosomal occupancy of Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (106), e53214. [*co-first authors]
Walzer KA, Wier GM, Dam RA, Srinivasan AR, Borges AL, English ED, Herrmann DC, Schares G, Dubey JP, and Boyle JP. (2014). Hammondia hammondi harbors functional orthologs of the host-modulating effectors GRA15 and ROP16 but is distinguished from Toxoplasma gondii by a unique transcriptional profile. Eukaryotic Cell. 13(12): 1507-18.
Walzer KA, Adomako-Ankomah Y, Dam RA, Herrmann DC, Schares G, Dubey JP, and Boyle JP. (2013). Hammondia hammondi, an avirulent relative of Toxoplasma gondii, has functional orthologs of known T. gondii virulence genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 110(18): 7446-51.
Walzer KA and Boyle JP. (2012). A single chromosome unexpectedly links highly divergent isolates of Toxoplasma gondii. mBio. 3(1):e00284-11.