Vett Lloyd, PhD
Sackville, New Brunswick
Dr. Vett Lloyd is a professor of Biology at Mount Allison University working on ticks and the pathogens they transmit.
Dr. Lloyd is the co-founder of the Canadian Lyme Science Alliance, an organization that aims to unite scientists, clinicians, and patients in the quest for a more comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease.
She is also the founding member of the Canadian Lyme Consortium and the Mount Allison Lyme Disease Network, interdisciplinary networks of researchers tackling the biological, social and human dimensions of Lyme disease and incorporating the Lyme patient community as full partners in this endeavor.
She has a special interest in encouraging community and citizen science in tick surveillance activities as a way to help “tick proof” communities.
More about Dr. Lloyd’s publications.
CanLyme news
Borrelia burgdorferi hijacks cellular metabolism of immune cells: Consequences for host defense
Abstract Changes in cellular metabolism have proven to be important…
Transgenic functional complementation with a transmission -associated protein restores spirochete infectivity by tick bite
Abstract The relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii and the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia…