Jani Sormunen | PhD

jjtsor@utu.fi

I am an ecologist/microbiologist specialized on ticks and tick-borne pathogens. I am serving as the head of the tick and tick-borne pathogen research group at the Department of Biology and Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku. 

My research interests are: 

  • Citizen science in tick research 
  • Artificial tick feeding systems 
  • Tick blood meal analyses 
  • Tick-pathogen interactions