Milder winters & rainy springs make for prime breeding grounds for ticks says Asst Prof Thomas Hart @tmhartbio.bsky.social an infectious-disease microbiologist @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social The warmer it is, the more ticks are able to survive through the seasons he says www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live. Here's what to know to protect yourself.

Today! 3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore April 30, 2025 publichealth.jhu.edu/lyme-and-tic... #MicroSky 🦠

Happy to share our new ScienceTM paper from Yingjun Cui, Erol Fikrig and @aaronmring.bsky.social et al. We built a yeast display library of 3,000+ I. scapularis proteins to profile antigens recognized by tick-resistant hosts, and developed a new anti-tick vaccine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're looking for a postdoc to join my group @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social MMI department to investigate host-pathogen interactions in Lyme disease! If interested, please email a cover letter, CV, and contact information for three references to me at [email protected].