Vytautas Magnus University

BalTick25 – Baltic Tick Conference Will Take Place at VMU

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We are pleased to announce that the BalTick25 – Baltic Tick Conference will take place at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas, Lithuania, on October 1-3, 2025.

BalTick25 will focus on the latest knowledge and findings related to ticks and tick-borne diseases, providing an excellent platform for both experienced and early-career researchers to present and discuss their innovative research.

Main topics:

  • Biology and Ecology of Ticks
  • Ticks as Disease Vectors
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Tick-Borne Diseases
  • Prevention and Tick Control
  • Veterinary Aspects
  • Innovative Methods and Technologies

Plenary speakers for BalTick25 – Baltic Tick Conference:

  • Per-Eric Lindgren, Professor in Medical Microbiology, Linköping University, Sweden

    Per-Eric Lindgren, Professor and Discipline Coordinator in Microbiology including Clinical Microbiology, Head of Division of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, and research leader, Laboratory Medicine, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden.

    Per-Eric Lindgren has extensive and long experience in One Health aspects of ticks and tick-borne infections including pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology and diagnostics. Lindgren have worked as project leader and coordinator on projects such as ScandTick Innovation, a project within the EU-Interreg ÖKS-programme, and NorthTick, a project within the EU-Interreg North Sea Region – programme. Lindgren is leading a research group at Linköping University and County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, consisting of several PhD-students, technicians and project students.

  • Snorre Stuen, Professor emeritus, University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norway

    Snorre Stuen (MSc, DVM, PhD, Dr. philos) is a professor emeritus at the University of Life Sciences in Norway and has been working with ticks and tick-borne infections in several national and international projects for nearly 40 years. He has especially worked with Anaplasma phagocytopilum infections in animals, using particularly sheep as a model animal.

  • Professor Anna Bajer, PhD, Head of the Department of Eco-epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw

    In recent years there is a growing impact of parasitic diseases of environmental and zoonotic origin on human and animal health. My research interest is in ecological and epidemiological studies on such parasites. In Bajer lab we plan and perform a range of eco-epidemiological studies on ticks and vector-borne diseases (babesiosis, borreliosis, bartonellosis, dirofilariasis); on factors influencing parasite communities in rodents, as model free-living hosts (i.e. helminths and haemoparasite community); and on reservoir of intestinal microparasites (Cryptosporidium, Giardia). We are interested also in molecular diversity and molecular phylogeny of micro- and macroparasites of medical and veterinary significance.

You can find the official webpage of the BalTick25 at the following link.

Please note that it is already possible to register and submit the abstract(s). The deadline for abstract submissions is September 1, 2025.

Save the dates and check the conference website regularly for the latest updates and important information.

The event will be photographed and/or filmed; therefore, please note that you might be featured in photos or videos which can be published in various media outlets.