Swetha Madesh received her MS in Veterinary Biomedical sciences from Kansas State University in 2021 and is now pursuing PhD in Comparative and Experimental Medicine at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has worked as a Graduate research assistant from 2019 and her research focused mainly on vaccine development against canine and bovine tick-borne bacterial pathogens. Her current research focuses on peptide-based vaccines for tick-borne canine pathogens. Keywords: Bacteria, Tick-borne, Vaccines.