Lorenza Beati
Curator of the U.S. National Tick Collection - Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology
Associate Professor - Biology Department
| Personal data | |
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| Professional address | James H. Oliver Jr. Institute - Georgia Southern University 114 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-present | Curator and Associate Professor; U.S. National Tick Collection - Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology and Biology Department, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA |
| 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 (syllabus) |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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. | |
