#TickImmunity

RESULTS

Read below for coverage of our most exciting and engaging outreach event - the Tick Immunity Symposium - where we share and discuss our work with the broader scientific community, thanks to P01 funding from the NIH.

Preliminary findings related to this project are also highlighted below.

Up-to-date results from our studies can be found in the Publications tab, which lists all relevant peer-reviewed literature from this program. For information about the technologies and methodologies that have been created or optimized through our project, please refer to the Technical Resources tab.

Message in a Vesicle – Trans-kingdom Intercommunication

Joao H. F. Pedra of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and his team published a new review paper that briefly discusses...

Preliminary Findings

Mar 18, 2019

Role of Mannose Binding Lectin in the Immune Response against Borrelia

Erol Fikrig and team at the Yale University School of Medicine published a new paper examining the role of Mannose Binding Lectin (MBL)...

Preliminary Findings

Feb 5, 2019

Borrelia Protein Interactions Critical for Persistence in Mammals

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park published a review on the interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi...

Preliminary Findings

Feb 1, 2019

Activation of the Immune Deficiency Pathway in Black-legged Ticks

Researchers identify the molecule p47 as a binding partner that induces a signaling cascade to limit microbial infection Researchers at...

Preliminary Findings

Jan 2, 2019

Characterization of Tick OATPs on Bacterial and Viral Infections

Utpal Pal and his team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper characterizing the roles of Ixodes scapularis ...

Preliminary Findings

Nov 14, 2018

Vector Immunity and Evolutionary Ecology: The Harmonious Dissonance

How evolution has shaped vector immunity, calling for immunologists and evolutionary ecologists to work together to tackle some of these...

Preliminary Findings

Nov 1, 2018

Team of Investigators Across Institutions to Pave the Way in Tick-borne Illness

Receives $7.7 million grant for first-of-its-kind Tick Immunity research program to examine tick immune responses to pathogens that cause...

Jul 30, 2018

Identification of Lyme Borreliae Proteins Promoting Survival in Ixodes Nymphs

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper identifying proteins that affect survival of...

Preliminary Findings

Jul 1, 2018

Visualization of Microbiota in Tick Guts by Whole-mount In Situ Hybridization

Erol Fikrig and team from the Yale University School of Medicine have published a method to visualize the microbiota in tick guts using...

Preliminary Findings

Jun 1, 2018

Host-Specific Expression of Tick Salivary Genes

Findings provide new insight into vector-host interactions and offer a functional paradigm to better understand the phenomenon of...

Preliminary Findings

Jun 1, 2018

Ixodes Immune Responses Against Lyme Disease Pathogens

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new review of recent studies in immune response against Lyme...

Preliminary Findings

May 29, 2018

Borrelia Surface Protein Processed into Peptides for Microbial Persistence

Utpal Pal and team at the University of Maryland, College Park, published a new paper highlighting a newly discovered mechanism for...

Preliminary Findings

May 10, 2018

Protein Used to Outsmart the Human Immune System

Findings have major implications for tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease A UMD researcher has uncovered a mechanism by which the...

Preliminary Findings

Apr 2, 2018

Methods in Microbiology: Artificial Infection of Ticks with Borrelia

Utpal Pal of the University of Maryland, College Park, edited a book in the Methods in Microbiology series on Borrelia burgdorferi...

Preliminary Findings

Oct 15, 2017