Xavier Bailly leads a research unit that focuses on the epidemiology of animal and zoonotic diseases, with a particular interest in tick dynamics and the epidemiology of tick-borne pathogens. He is a molecular epidemiologist working on various tick-borne pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. The aim of this talk is to share ideas about the implementation of a web portal that could be used to centralize data on tick dynamics and infection by tick-borne pathogens. These data could be used to model the spatial and temporal distribution of ticks and in the longer term, the distribution of tick borne diseases.