Email: c.meszoely@neu.edu

Phone: 617.373.2285
Fax: 617.373.3724

Location: 414 Mugar Life Sciences
Mail: NU/Biology
         134 Mugar Life Sciences
         360 Huntington Avenue
         Boston, MA 02115 USA

Research Description

My research work in paleontology is focused on the fossil record of amphibians, lizards, and snakes. I am involved in two faunal studies, one from the Late Eocene of the Isle of Wight, England, and the other from the Late Paleocene of Wyoming. In addition to identifying and classifying the faunal elements, I am also assessing the relative abundance of each species. In the past I studied the systematics of cryptobranchid salamanders and anguid and varanoid lizards. I have a good collection of fossil vertebrates from the Isle of Wight and a collection of recent comparative material.

As a parasitologist I employ the techniques of freeze-fracturing to study the ultrastructure of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium. I am studying the sporozoan and gametocyte stages of Plasmodium. Formerly, I studied the asexual erythrocytic and exoerythrocytic stages of the malarial organisms. One of my graduate students studies the development of the gametocytes of Plasmodium falciparum.

Selected Publications

Meszoely, C.A.M. and Gasparik, M. 2002. First record of an agamid lizard from the Pleistocene of Hungary. Frag. Paleo. Hung. 20, 1-2.

Meszoely, C.A.M., E.F. Erbe, W.P. Wergin and S.L. Hoffman. 1995. Plasmodium vivax: Freeze-fracture studies on the ultrastructure of the sporozoites within the salivary gland of the mosquito Anopheles stephensi. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 52 (5): 443-449.

Meszoely, C.A.M.., E.F. Erbe, L.M. Beaudoin and R.L. Beaudoin. 1989. Freeze-fracture studies on the sporzblast and sporozoite development in the early oocyst. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 41 (5): 499-503.

Meszoely, C.A.M., Z. V. Spinar and R. E. Ford. 1984. A new Eocene frog (Palaeobatrachidae) from the British Islands. J. Vert. Paleont. 3:143-147.

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