One Gift. Three Impacts:
Affordable Tick Testing, Actionable Intelligence, and Advancing Research
Advancing Tick Surveillance. Protecting Public Health
The Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory at SUNY Upstate Medical University combines molecular diagnostics, citizen science, surveillance, and research to generate trusted data that help individuals, healthcare professionals, researchers, and public health agencies better understand tick-borne disease risk. Our work transforms individual tick submissions into actionable public health intelligence that supports prevention, research, and informed decision-making.
Turning Tick Data into Public Health Actionable Intelligence
tickMAP
Every tick submitted to the Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory contributes to a growing understanding of tick distributions, pathogen prevalence, and emerging tick-borne disease risk. TickMAP transforms these laboratory-confirmed data into interactive maps and surveillance dashboards that help the public, healthcare providers, researchers, and public health agencies monitor changing patterns of tick activity across the United States.
Research & Innovation
The Thangamani Lab at SUNY Upstate Medical University serves as the research and innovation division of the Upstate Tick Lab, advancing discoveries in vector biology, emerging infectious diseases, pathogen transmission, host immunity, diagnostics, and surveillance to improve prevention and control of tick-borne diseases.
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TickBytes
A podcast from the Upstate Tick Lab.
Every scientific discovery has a story.
Every scientist has a journey.
TickBytes is dedicated to preserving both.
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TickCast
Transforming Human Tick Encounter Data into Real-Time Predictors of Tick-Borne Disease Risk