(Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media) Goudarz Molaei, a research scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven and director of the State of Connecticut tick testing program right, in the tick testing lab at the experiment station with research assistants Kristina D’Agostino, left, and Mallery Breban, center, as they prepare to extract the DNA of a tick to identify the disease agent that it may carry. Molaei, an Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University, has expertise in the areas of molecular biology, physiology, genetics, vector biology, epidemiology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases.  