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Saravanan Thangamani, MS, PhD., Principal Investigator


Dr. Saravanan Thangamani is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is also the Director of SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, and Vector Biology Laboratories. He is an expert in vector-borne diseases, specifically tick-borne and mosquito-borne diseases caused by pathogens such as the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, Powassan virus, Heartland virus, Chikungunya virus, West Nile virus and Zika virus. His research attempts to: (1) understand the environmental factors contributing to the emergence and reemergence of vector-borne diseases in the United States; (2) develop anti-tick vaccines; (3) develop novel transmission control methods, including the development of transmission blocking vaccines for mosquito and tick-borne diseases; (5) vector determinants of arbovirus transmission; (4) effect of co-infections on the clinical outcome of Lyme disease.


E-mail: thangams@upstate.edu

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Erin Reynolds, Principal Research Support Specialist

Erin Reynolds has over a decade of infectious disease research experience which includes conducting in-vivo and in-vitro experiments in high level biocontainment laboratories, assisting in development of animal models for disease transmission and pathogenesis, and working under Good Laboratory Practice requirements. Through the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science she has completed Laboratory Animal Technologist and Institute of Laboratory Animal Management certifications. Her current research interests include development of a non-lethal animal model for Heartland Virus and evaluating the differences in disease progression between male and female mice.  

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Charles Hart, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Charles Hart graduated with a B.S. in biochemistry from Central Connecticut State University in 2013. He entered the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2014 in the human pathophysiology and translational medicine program and joined the Thangamani lab in 2015. Primary interests include vector-pathogen interactions and pathogen-pathogen interactions during coinfection. Charles Hart’s current project focuses on the interaction between Powassan virus and Borrelia burgdorferi in terms of tick pathogen acquisition and transmission, as well as the effect of dual infection in vertebrates.

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Allen Esterly, Graduate Student

Research Focus: Mosquito determinants of Alphavirus and Flavivirus transmission and dissemination.

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Jahnavi Bhaskar, Research Support Specialist

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Alicia Quattropani, Research Support Specialist

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Erin Hassett, Research Support Specialist

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Ivona Petzlova, Research volunteer

Lab alumni

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Dr. Meghan Hermance, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama

Dr. Dar Heinze MD, PhD

Research Fellow, Boston Medical Center

Dr. Rodrigo Santos, PhD

Research Scientist,  Cornell University

Dr. Payal Maharaj, PhD

Research Scientist,  CDC

Lane Warmbrod, MS

Biosecurity and Biosafety analyst, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Ian Patterson, PhD

Research Fellow, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Nicole Hausser, MS

Research Associate, UTMB Galveston

Jing Huang, BS

Retired

Thangamani Lab, SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY 13210