Donald Wilson Roberts

Dr. Donald Roberts is well established in the field of insect pathology and microbial control. He has been President of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology and has received all three of its highest honors. Many prominent insect pathologists have trained and/or collaborated with him. Almost all of his publications are on basic and applied insect pathology. He heads up an active research team of 5-10 people. He has surveyed for new insect-pathogenic fungi in almost all continents, and has conducted projects to identify those isolates most promising for biocontrol of pest insects. He also organized long-term microbial control projects in Brazil and the Philippines. Currently, he is a Research Professor in the Department of Biology at Utah State University. Dr. Roberts was speaker and/or organizer of more than 200 symposia, conferences, workshops, and seminars worldwide on various topics in insect pathology; including co-chairing the Society for Invertebrate Pathology annual meeting in 2009. Subjects of these talks and meetings were principally general insect pathology, microbial control, entomopoxviruses, entomopathogenic fungi (from field applications to molecular biology and toxins), mosquito diseases, and the role of microbial control in international agriculture.

bachelor's at Zoology (Bonaty) from Brigham Young University (1957), master's at Entomology from Iowa State University (1958) and doctorate at Entomology (Insect Pathology) from University of California, Berkeley (1964). Has experience in Agronomy, acting on the following subjects: controle microbiano de insetos, metarhizium anisopliae and uv and heat tolerance.