ewa.mierzejewska@cent.uw.edu.pl

I am veterinarian and biologist working simultaneously in both fields. First I graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Academy of Agriculture in Wrocław (currently the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences) with a DVM diploma in 2003.  Since then I was working in Wrocław, Warsaw and Dubai as a clinician involved in internal medicine and critical care. In 2011, I directed my interest to ticks and tick-borne diseases with special attention to these threatening dog populations in Poland. This is how I became a PhD student at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw. As PhD student at the Parasitology Department I conducted research on possible causes and significance of expansion of Dermacentor reticulatus tick, the main vector of Babesia canis causing severe diseases of dogs, canine babesiosis.  In 2015 I defended my dissertation „Expanding geographical range of Dermacentor reticulatus tick (Amblyommidae) in Poland: the reasons, significance and the influence on the transmission of tick-borne pathogens”.  For the next three years I worked as postdoc at the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw and continued my research on D. reticulatus and epidemiological consequences of its expansion in Poland. Work in this project has sparked my interest in the application of vector-pathogen-host models in the research on the eco-epidemiology of vector-borne diseases.

Currently, I am working on a scientific – technical position in the Wild Urban Evolution & Ecology Lab where I am conducting research on the haemosporidian infections in urban populations of Parus major and Cyanistes caeruleus. I am also involved as academic teacher at Faculty of Biology and Faculty of Antropozoology at University of Warsaw.

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