We have several research projects focused on the ecology and epidemiology of ticks and tick-borne diseases of California and elsewhere. Collaborators on tick-borne disease projects include Drs. Wuchun Cao and Jing He at the Beijing Institute for Microbiology and Epidemiology in the People's Republic of China, Dr. Bob Lane in the Division of Insect Biology at UC Berkeley, Dr. Rick Brown in the Department of Wildlife at Humboldt State University, Dr. Patrick Foley in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University Sacramento, Dr. Steve Dumler at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Joon Seuk Chae at Chonbuk National University in South Korea, and others

Here are a few of our favorite projects:

1. Forest change and the emergence of disease transmitted by Ixodes ricinus group hard ticks in northern California and northeastern China (Foley lead investigator).

2. The spread and maintenance of EBA in cattle and the soft tick Ornithodorus coriaceus in California (Teglas).

3. Modeling the enzootic maintenance of granulocytic anaplasmosis in California wildlife (J. Foley and P. Foley).

4. Understanding high anaplasmosis and Lyme- risk regions of far northern California through wildlife and tick studies (Rick Brown and Foley).

5. Comparative habitat analysis for hard-tick borne disease in the western US (Nieto).

6. Developing an active surveillance program for exotic ticks of cattle in California (Foley).

California Bovine Tick-borne Disease Surveillance Program

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