News and Events
3rd Annual Ticks and Tickborne Diseases Symposium
Join us on April 30, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland!
Hear from leading experts on tick surveillance, disease risk, and innovative anti-tick strategies. Explore B. burgdorferi bacterial genetics and pathogenesis.
Engage in panels discussing interventions, new tickborne diseases, human study challenges, and Lyme disease pathogenesis.
Other Events
Rafal Tokarz, PhD
January 23, 2025: Rafal Tokarz, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University joined us to discuss tickborne disease diagnostics and epidemiology.
The title of his talk was “Insights into multi-agent assay development for tick-borne diseases”
Noon Seminars
March 6, 2025: Speaker TBD
October 10th, 2024 Janis J. Weis, PhD, Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah gave a seminar talk entitled Molecular analysis of Type I IFN involvement in Lyme arthritis.
Summer Newsletter
Pleased to share our Summer 2024 newsletter, where we highlight LTBDI activities and team members!
Lyme-Fighting Power Duo
An interview with our director, Nicole Baumgarth and Karen Peetz, who are aligning their talents and resources to energize the field.
Tick Talk
The inaugural director of the Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Institute tackles the growing threat of tickborne illnesses.
Researcher Nicole Baumgarth Joins Bloomberg School’s Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Institute as Inaugural Director
Baumgarth is known for efforts to understand host responses to Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease via the bite of infected blacklegged ticks.
Media Coverage
GameChanger: Nicole Baumgarth
Baltimore Magazine profiles our Institute Director whose work and mission is focused on the fight against tickborne diseases
Dr. Baumgarth was featured on Bloomberg News to discuss the spread of Lyme Disease in the United States. (interview begins at 21:30)
A feature in the Johns Hopkins Hub focused on the vision for the Institute.