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
The immune system cannot generate immunological memory during infection with the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorfer
R.A. Elsner, S.W. Barthold, N. Baumgarth https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043466613003542 Graduate Group in…
The Global Search for Education: In Search of Solutions – Ticks
To date in my “Ticks” series, we have learned from…
CBC News: Reports of Lyme disease triple in southern Manitoba
The number of black-legged ticks in southeastern Manitoba is on…