Connecticut State The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Jamie L. Cantoni

Department of Entomology
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
123 Huntington Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Voice: (203)-974-8533 Fax: (203)-974-8502
E-mail: Jamie.Cantoni@ct.gov

Webpage: The State of Connecticut Active Tick Surveillance Program

 

Expertise:

Jamie provides highly adaptable, organized, and diverse technical support and field assistance to a variety of annual and long-term tick management and tick monitoring research projects. She facilitates all field collections for the state-wide Active Tick Surveillance Program, and demonstrates expertise in tick identification, ecology, life cycle, and phenology.

 

Education:

B.S. Ecology, Biodiversity, and Evolutionary Biology, Central Connecticut State University, 2013

A.S. Environmental Science, Naugatuck Valley Community College, 2009

 

Station Career:

Agricultural Research Technician I: 2022-Present

Agricultural Research Assistant III: 2019-2022

Seasonal Research Assistant: 2014-2016; 2018-2019

 

Selected publications are available from the author, Jamie.Cantoni@ct.gov, online or in books.

Publications:

  • Price, L. E., Winter, J. M., Cantoni, J. L., Cozens, D. W., Linske, M. A., Williams, S. C., Dill, G. M., Gardner, A. M., Elias, S. P., Rounsville, T. F., Smith, R. P., Palace, M. W., Herrick, C., Prusinski, M. A., Casey, P., Doncaster, E. M., Savage, J. D. T., Wallace, D. I., & Shi, X. (2024). Spatial and temporal distribution of Ixodes scapularis and tick-borne pathogens across the northeastern United States. Parasites & Vectors 17:481. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-024-06518-9

     

  • Earnest, R., Hahn, A. M., Feriancek, N. M., Brandt, M., Filler, R. B., Zhao, Z., Breban, M. I., Vogels, C. B. F., Chen, N. F. G., Koch, R. T., Porzucek, A. J., Sodeinde, A., Garbiel, A., Keanna, C., Litwak, H., Stuber, H. R., Cantoni, J. L., Pitzer, V. E., Castillo, X. A. O., Goodman, L.B., Wilen, C.B., Linske, M.A., Williams, S.C., & Grubaugh, N. D. (2023). Survey of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in Connecticut, USA reveals low SARS-COV-2 seroprevalence and infection with divergent betacoronaviruses. DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.22.559030v1.full

     

  • Holcomb, K. M., Khalil, N., Cozens, D. W., Cantoni, J. L., Brackney, D. E., Linske, M. A., Williams, S. C., Molaei, G., & Eisen, R. J. (2023). Comparison of acarological risk metrics derived from active and passive surveillance and their concordance with tick-borne disease incidence. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 14(6), 102243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2023.102243

     

  • Khalil, N., Dugas, K. D., Cantoni, J. L., Stafford, K. C., & Molaei, G. (2022). Anomalous morphologies in Ixodes scapularis feeding on human hosts. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 13(5), 101993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101993

     

  • Cantoni, J. L., Andreosso, A., & Seymour, J. (2020). An in vitro comparison of venom recovery methods and results on the box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri. Toxicon, 184, 94–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2020.06.003

     

  • Fact Sheets: 

    Tracking the Ticks: The Active Tick Surveillance Program