Ticks and tick-borne pathogens constitute a growing burden for animal and human health worldwide.
The development of effective control strategies of these medically important arthropods, along with pathogens they transmit, is currently hampered by our limited understanding of their complex interactions.
Specifically, the interrelationship between pathogens, entering tick body, and tick signalling systems literally represents a “black box”.
This neglected area in tick research, along the scientific curiosity of both PI’s created a base line for an establishment of the NeuroPaTick.
We believe that investigation of tick signaling system interactions with the pathogens they transfer will ultimately generate a unique research area that we have named "Neural basis of tick-pathogen interactions".