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 Early Dissemination Defect Attributed to Disruption of Decorin-Binding Proteins Is Abolished in Chronic Murine Lyme Borreliosis
doi: 10.1128/IAI.01359-12 Infect. Immun. May 2013 vol. 81 no. 5 1663-1673 Denise M. Imaia, D.…
New study to discover preventive use of antibiotics for Lyme disease
At the start of the “Tick Week”, the Netherlands National…
Listen to Kathryn Maroun, host of the TV show ‘What A Catch’ and Mount Allison University biologist Vett Lloyd discuss Lyme disease
Kathryn Maroun, host of popular TV show about fishing, What…