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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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Dakota Paine, Graduate Student

Research Project: 

Immunomodulation at the tick-virus-host interface during Powassan virus transmission.

Jessica Crooker, MD/PhD Graduate Student

Research Project: 

Impact of co-infections on the clinical outcome of Powassan encephalitis and Lyme disease

Ivona Petzlova, Research Associate

Research Projects: 

1. Rearing & maintenance of mosquito colonies.

2. Mosquito vector competency studies.

3. Education and Outreach


Alex Schmidt, Research Associate

Research Project: 

1. Ecology of tick-borne pathogen transmission in the US

2. Upstate Tick Testing Program


Meha Authi, Research Aide

Research Project: 

1. Upstate Tick Testing Program


Thangadurai Ramu, Ph.D

Research Project: 

1. Upstate Tick Testing Program

2. Pre-clinical evaluation of vaccines and therapeutics against emerging viruses

Lab alumni

Dr. Meghan Hermance, PhD

Graduate Student, Post-doctoral fellow, and Research Scientist.

Current status: Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama

Dr. Allen Esterly, PhD

Graduate Student, and Post-doctoral fellow

Current status: Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale University

Dr. Charles Hart, PhD

Graduate Student, and Post-doctoral fellow

Current status: Scientist, US Army

Dr. Dar Heinze MD, PhD

Graduate Student.

Current status: Research Fellow, Boston Medical Center

Dr. Rodrigo Santos, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

Current status: Research Scientist, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Dr. Payal Maharaj, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

Current status: Research Scientist, CDC

Dr. Jacob Nelson, PHD

Post-doctoral Fellow

Jahnavi Bhaskar, MS

Research Associate

Current status: Research Scientist, UC Berkeley

Lane Warmbrod, MS

MS Student

Current status: Biosecurity and Biosafety analyst, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Ian Patterson, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

Current status: Assistant Professor, Queen's University, Canada

Nicole Hausser, MS

Research Associate

Current status: Research Associate, UTMB Galveston

Jing Huang, BS

Research Associate

Current status: Retired

Alicia Quattropani, BS

Research Associate

Current status: MPH student, London School of Tropical Medicine

Jordan Popov, BS

SURF Student

Current status: Columbia University

Bryce Linehan, BS

BS Student 

Current status: SUNY ESF

Kayleigh Filkins, BS

Research Associate

Current status: Graduate Student, University of Rochester

Erin Hassett, MS

Research Associate

Current status: Graduate Student, SUNY ESF

Serena Bradley, BS

SURF Student

Current status:  Skidmore College

Gary Wang

Research Associate

Current status:  Graduate student, Syracuse University

Erin Reynolds, BS

Sr. Research Associate

Joelee Tooley, MS

Research Associate

Ben Andrews, BS

Research Associate

Thangamani Lab, SUNY Center for Vector-Borne Diseases, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY 13210

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