Lane Foil furthers science with numerousresearch grants over 40-year span

摘要

Lane Foil joined the LSU AgCenter Department of Entomology in 1980 with a specific mission: to study horse flies.Foil subsequently spent his career studying insect vectors as disease carriers and their economic costs. He started with horse flies as a vector of diseases — anaplasmosis in cattle and equine infectious anemia, or "swamp fever," in horses. "Cattlemen wanted information about the transmission of the pathogens causing these diseases, so the AgCenter created a unique positon dedicated to groups of flies," Foil said.