Surveillance Team

Faculty: The following Michigan Tech faculty members are committed to the public health monitoring of ticks in the U.P. They represent several academic disciplines: biological sciences, forest resources and environmental science, computer science, and health/biomedical informatics.

Kristin Brzeski

  • Assistant Professor

Guy Hembroff

  • Associate Professor, Applied Computing
  • Graduate Program Director, MS in Health Informatics
  • Graduate Program Director, PhD in Computational Science and Engineering

Dukka KC

  • Professor, Computer Science
  • Associate Dean for Research, College of Computing
  • Associate Director, ICC

Jared Wolfe

  • Assistant Professor

Stephen Techtmann

  • Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Associate Director, Great Lakes Research Center

Staff and Students

The following are Michigan Tech staff members and students contributing to the public health tick surveillance initiative.

Name Status Email Department Affiliation
Harikrishnan Changarnkothapeecherikkal Graduate Student hchangar@mtu.edu Data Science 
Trisha Colling, MS Sequencing Laboratory Scientist  tscollin@mtu.edu Biological Sciences
Ifunanya Ezeumeh Graduate Student ieezeume@mtu.edu Health Informatics
Dr. Hamid Ismail, PhD Staff - Postdoctoral Scholar hdismail@mtu.edu  Computer Science
Garret Kucharski

Undergraduate Student

gjkuchar@mtu.edu

CFRES Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 

Dr. Aimee Marceau, PhD

Staff - Research Scientist

Genomic Surveillance Facility Lead

ahmarcea@mtu.edu

Biological Sciences