Jonathan D. Oliver

This study shows that the tick's vitellogenesis pathway regulates the transcriptional state of its endosymbiont Rickettsia buchneri, independent of bacterial abundance.

This study shows that tick extracellular vesicles alter keratinocyte function in the epidermis by inhibiting proliferation and wound closure, linked to phosphoinositide 3-kinase, KGF-1, and TGF-β.

This study evaluates nanopore adaptive sampling for detecting Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks, finding it highly specific but with moderate sensitivity and high false-negative rates.

This paper uses the Oxford Nanopore Adaptive Sampling pipeline to sequence mitogenomes of hematophagous insects and identify their bloodmeal hosts, aiding in disease transmission studies.