An interview with Robert S. Lane, Ph.D.

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An interview with Robert S. Lane, Ph.D.

 

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2010 Mar;10(2):211-5.

 

Lane RS.

 

Dr. Robert Lane received a B.A. degree in psychology from the

University of California at Berkeley (UCB), an M.A. degree in

biology at San Francisco State College, and a Ph.D. in entomology

at UCB. While employed as a California State public health

biologist he began his long-standing studies of the biology of

ticks and the ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne disease

agents. In 1984, Dr. Lane joined the faculty of UCB as a medical

entomologist, a position he has held until the present. The

diseases he and his many co-workers have investigated include

Colorado tick fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, relapsing

fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and particularly

Lyme disease. Findings from these studies have elucidated the

basic transmission cycles of and risk factors for spotted

fever-group rickettsiae and Lyme disease spirochetes in the far

western United States. Bob is a Fellow of both the California

Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the

Advancement of Science, a recipient of a UCB Biology Faculty

Research Award and the C.W.

Woodworth Award from the Pacific Branch of the Entomological

Society of America, and a member of the Council for the

International Congresses of Entomology.

Also, he has served as president of the Acarological Society of

America, the International Northwestern Conference on Diseases in

Nature Communicable to Man, the Northern California

Parasitologists, and the Society for Vector Ecology, as well as

the Chair of Section D (Medical/Veterinary Entomology),

Entomological Society.

 

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