Lorenza Beati
Curator of the U.S. National Tick Collection - Institute for Coastal Plain Science
Professor - Biology Department
| Personal data | |
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| Professional address | Institute for Coastal Plain Science - Georgia Southern University 75 Georgia Avenue - Building 204 PO BOX 8056 Statesboro, GA 30460 |
| Telephone number | 1-912-478-0553 |
| Fax number | 1-912-478-0559 |
| E-mail address | |
| Education | |
| 1993 | Ph.D.; Unité de Rickettsies, W.H.O. Collaborative Center for Rickettsioses, University Aix-Marseille II, France |
| 1990 | Medical Doctoral Thesis; Faculté de Medecine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1987 | M.D.; Faculté de Medecine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1985 | DEA in Parasitology (post-grad diploma); Laboratoires de Parasitologie, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Positions | |
| 1993-1996 | Postdoctoral Researcher; Unité de Rickettsies - W.H.O. Collaborative Center for Rickettsioses, University Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France |
| 1996-1999 | Invited Visiting Scientist and W.H.O. Fellow; Viral and Rickettsial Zoonosis Branch,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA |
| 2000-2004 | Associate Researcher; Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 2004-2006 | Assistant Curator; U.S. National Tick Collection - Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
| 2006-2011 | Curator and Associate Professor; U.S. National Tick Collection - Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology and Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
| 2011-present | Curator and Professor; U.S. National Tick Collection - Institute for Coastal Plain Science and Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
| 2011 | Appointed Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC). |
| Teaching | |
| Laboratory | Laboratory techniques and theoretical approach of systematic biology research projects since 1993 (vector and vector-borne diseases) |
| USNTC | Seminars on ticks and on the USNTC to students and the public |
| Classroom | Spring 2007: Molecular phylogenetics Spring 2008: Systematic Biology Spring 2009: Systematic Biology Fall 2010: Applied Biology (co-taught with L. Durden and W. Irby): malaria in all it's aspects. |
| Combined classroom and Field study abroad |
Summer 2009: Biodiversity and Ecology of Arthropods in the Swiss Alps (Field class abroad at the Center of Alpine Biology in Piora, Switzerland) (co-taught with E. Mondor) Summer 2010: Biodiversity and Ecology of Arthropods in the Swiss Alps (Field class abroad at the Center of Alpine Biology in Piora, Switzerland) Summer 2011: Biodiversity and Ecology of Arthropods in the Swiss Alps (Field class abroad at the Center of Alpine Biology in Piora, Switzerland) (co-taught with W. Irby) Summer 2012: Biodiversity and Ecology of Arthropods in the Swiss Alps (Field class abroad at the Center of Alpine Biology in Piora, Switzerland) (co-taught with W. Irby) |
| Awards, fellowships, grants, and contracts | |
| 1990 | Porphyrogenis Award for Medical Doctoral Thesis: Cartographic analysis of canine leishmaniasis in Corsica Faculté de Medecine, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1990-1991 | Swiss National Research Foundation (Switzerland), Fellowship |
| 1992 | Joined Swiss National Research Foundation (Switzerland) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Fellowship |
| 1992 | Société Académique Vaudoise, Fellowship |
| 1996-1999 | W.H.O. Fellowship |
| 2003-2007 | Co-PI and, later, subcontractor, National Institutes of Health grant #AI 056254-01; Phylogeography of Verrucarum sand fly disease vectors P.I. Dr Leonard E. Munstermann |
| 2005 | GSU Faculty Research Grant: Genetic structure of Ixodes scapularis populations in the South-East U.S. |
| 2007 | GSU Faculty Research Grant: Phylogenetic systematics of the genus Haemaphysalis. |
| 2008 | Subcontract with Michigan State University - Development of microsatellite markers of I. scapularis. |
| 2008 | Smithsonian Institution Internal Care and Preservation grants for maintaining the U.S. National Tick Collection and for digitizing images of the USNTC types. |
| 2008 | Research Service Agreement with Ross University (St Kitts & Nevis, WI) for the study of the phylogeographical history of Amblyomma variegatum. |
| 2009 | NSF Collaborative-Linked EID award #914390 - Testing alternative hypotheses for gradients in Lyme disease in the eastern United States: climate, host, community and vector genetic structure. |
| 2010 | REVSYS NSF grant #1026146 - Exploiting a large existing resource for biogeographical and host-parasite data: linking immature and adult amblyommine ticks |
| 2011 | Georgia Southern University SPRInG Grant "Pilot Assessment of Murine Typhus in the Southeastern USA". PI M. Eremeeva; CO-PIs L. Durden, L. Beati |
| 2012 | Georgia Southern University Academic Year 2012-2013 Award in Excellence in Research |
| 2013 | Georgia Southern University Faculty Research Seed Award “Genetic diversity of Ixodes trianguliceps, a nidicolous tick which maintains pathogenic microorganisms in nature” CO-PI W. Irby. |
| Miscellaneous activities: consulting, workshops, and seminars | |
| 1992-1993 (4 months) | Invited Visiting Scientist; Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| 1996 | Consultant for the Centro de Estudos de Vectores e Doenças Infecciosas Dr Ricardo Jorge, Aguas de Moura, Portugal |
| 1997 | Organization with Prof. P.J. Kelly of a W.H.O. sponsored workshop on "Ticks and Rickettsiae", Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| 1998 | Invited seminar speaker at the International Course "Actualización en Medicina Tropical: Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores" Organizaton of a workshop on PCR for the identification of Bartonella and Lutzomyia species. Universidad Nacionál Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. |
| 2001-2003 | Consultant for the Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. |
| 2002-2003 | Co-organizer of the "Molecular biology in vector ecology" weekly seminar, EPH, Yale University. |
| 2003 | Invited seminar speaker at the Microbiology and Immunology Department, University of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador |
| 2005 | Scientific Committee for the TTP5 meeting in Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| 2006 | Invited seminar speaker and workshop on tick systematics, Veterinary School, Ross university (St Kitts, West Indies) |
| 2007 | Invited seminar speaker, Graduate program for MPH in Epidemiology, Introduction to Public Health Course (Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, GSU) |
| 2007 | Invited seminar speaker and workshop on tick systematics, Veterinary School, Ross University (St Kitts, West Indies) |
| 2008 | Invited seminar speaker and workshop on tick systematics, Veterinary School, Ross University (St Kitts, West Indies) |
| 2008 | Invited lecturer: Acarology Summer Program (Med-Vet section), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2009 | Invited seminar speaker and workshop on tick systematics, Veterinary School, Ross University (St Kitts, West Indies) |
| 2009 | GSU-Biology Department internal seminar with Dr Lance Durden: Field REsearch in a Neotropical Ecosystem in French Guiana |
| 2009 | Invited seminar speaker: Systematic Research at the U.S.N.T.C., Field Museum, Chicago. |
| 2010 | Organizer of the symposium "Conventional and Molecular tick Taxonomy" at the XIII International Congress of Acarology, Recife, Brazil. |
| 2010 | Invited lecturer: Acarology Summer Program (Med-Vet section), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2010 | Invited speaker: Workshop on Neotropical Tick Systematics, Rafaela, Argentina. |
| 2010 | GSU-Biology Department seminar: Research on tick systematics at the U.S.N.T.C (genera Amblyomma and Ixodes) |
| 2011 | Invited Speaker: Valdosta State University - The Science seminar series: Lyme Disease: North vs. South. |
| 2012 | Member of the Organizing Committee of the 76th Annual Meeting of the Georgia Entomological Society |
| 2012 | Invited lecturer: Acarology Summer Program (Med-Vet section), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2012 | Acceptance seminar: Georgia Southern University - Focus on Excellence Lectures: Research on ticks and tick-borne diseases at the U.S. National Tick Collection |
| 2012 | Invited Speaker: Savannah River Site Ecology Laboratory - Seminar: Ixodes scapularis and Lyme disease in the southern U.S. |
| 2013 | Tick boot at the GSU "i2Explore" event |
| 2013 | Invited Dr Thierry de Meeus, IRD (Burkina Faso) who offered a population genetics workshop for GSU Biology and Mathematics students |
| 2014 | Invited lecturer: Acarology Summer Program (Med-Vet section), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2014 | Invited seminar speaker at Old Dominion University: " The U.S. National Tick Collection: tick systematics |
| 2015 | Co-organized with Colleen Evans, exhibit on ticks and the USNTC for the Georgia Association of Museums Conference at the GSU Museum (Statesboro, GA; January, 2015) |
| 2015 | Co-organized with Colleen Evans, exhibit on ticks and the USNTC for the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon, GA, June 2015) |
| 2016 | Invited lecturer: Acarology Summer Program (Med-Vet section), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2016 | Organized exhibit on ticks and the USNTC for the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon, GA, September, 2016) |
| Outreach-Links | |
| 2013 | Simple key for the adult tick stages of the Eastern U.S. |
| 2015 | Webinar: "Tick Ecology for Epidemiologists" |
| Memberships | |
| Société Académique Vaudoise ; Entomological Society of America; The Acarological Society of America; Systematic and Applied Acarology Society; Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution; Willi Hennig Society; Society of Systematic Biologists; European Society for Evolutionary Biology. | |
