Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tufts University.  She has been involved in Lyme Research for 10 years and has been focused on studies of immunological responses to the bacterium. Her studies have expanded on the knowledge of how receptors recognize microbial products and fine tune immune responses. She has also been working on understanding how the nature of the long term infection alters the immune response in the host over time.  She can often be found in the lab thinking of ideas nobody likes but luckily for her eventually everyone changes their mind. She wants to see Lyme disease eradicated so the ticks don’t get such a bad rap.

Fun fact:  Tanja speaks multiple foreign languages and is still waiting for that skill to become critical to her studies, preferably on some tropical island.

Read more about Dr. Petnicki-Ocwieja at: https://gsbs.tufts.edu/facultyResearch/staff/petnicki-ocwieja-tanja