Donald W. Roberts

Early life and education Born in Phoenix, Arizona, US, in 1933.

Postdoctoral career In 1965, Roberts was hired as an Assistant Rank Insect Pathologist by the Boyce Thompson Plant Research Institute.

When that was completed in 1978 he then traveled to work for the Brazilian government on fungal controls of pasture spittlebugs. That lasted until 1981.

Roberts was a frequent collaborator of Raymond J. St. Leger, who was also chosen to give the Society for Invertebrate Pathology's Founders Lecture in his honor in 2009.

19881990 The Society for Invertebrate Pathology President

1989 ESA-EB L.O. Howard Distinguished Achievement Award

1996 Boyce Thompson Institute made Roy A. Young Scientist Emeritus Entomological Society of Brazil (Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia) honorary membership and recognition award

2009 Society for Invertebrate Pathology Founders' Honoree award, and Founders' Lecture on his career

Personal life and death Roberts and his wife, Mae, had two children. He died on May 2, 2021, at the age of 88.

Selected bibliography Ph.D. dissertation, 1964:

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