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Assistant Professor of Pathology
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Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
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(352) 392-2239, ext. 392
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Immunology of infectious disease; vaccine development; bacterial infections and host response
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Research Assistant Professor
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Emerging Pathogens Institute
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(352) 273-7526
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Vibrios; Vibro cholera; long term persistence; polysaccharide coatings; bacterial pathogenecity; biofilms
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| Ahmed, Chulbul |
Associate Scientist |
Agricultural and Life Sciences, IFAS: Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science |
(352) 392-6883 |
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| Expertise: | Poxviruses; antivirals; interferons; immune modulators; cytokines; bioterrorism | ||||
| Allan, Sandra |
USDA Research entomologist; UF Courtesy Faculty | U.S.D.A., Agriculture Research Services; UF Dept. of Entomology and Nematology | (352) 374-5940 | ||
| Expertise: | Mosquito; mosquito ecology; tick; vector biology; behavior; trapping; attractants; surveillance; Aedes; Culex; control |
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| Allred, David | Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 826 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Babesia; babesiosis; malaria; Plasmodium; antigenic variation; cytoadhesion | ||||
| Anderson, Peter | Professor; and Whitney Laboratory Director | The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience | (904) 461-4028 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Cnidaria; jellyfish stings; neurobiology; ion channels | ||||
| Archer, Douglas | IFAS Associate Dean for Research | Institute for Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS) | (352) 392-1784 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Foodborne illness incidence; foodborne bacteria; microbiological food safety; food safety regulation | ||||
| Azzam, Hala | EPI Director of international Programs; Research Assistant Professor | EPI; College of Public Health and Health Professions | |||
| Expertise: | Cancer; infectious disease; HIV; cervical cancer; International public health; HPV | ||||
| Baker, Henry | Professor and Interim Chair | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 392-0680 | ||
| Expertise: | Gene expression profiling; growth-rate regulation; regulation of glycolytic gene expression | ||||
| Barbet, Tony | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 581 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Anaplasma; Ehrlichia; antigenic variation; tick-borne diseases; outer membrane proteins; molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis | ||||
| Batich, Chris | Professor; and Associate Director of Clinical and Translational Science Institute |
Engineering: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; and Clinical and Translational Science Institute |
(352) 392-6630 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Translational medicine; Microbicidal dressings; drug delivery; biomaterials; diagnostic devices | ||||
| Batz, Mike | EPI, Head of Food Safety Programs | Emerging Pathogens Institute | (352) 273-7010 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Food safety; risk assessment; computer modeling; quantitative policy analysis; decisions under uncertainty | ||||
| Behringer, Don | Research Assistant Professor | IFAS: Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Science | (352) 273-3634 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Crustacean diseases; marine ecology; behavior; spiny lobster; PaV1 | ||||
| Bélanger, Myriam | Research Associate Professor | Dentistry: Dept. of Oral Biology | (352) 392-5937 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Bacterial pathogenesis; Porphyromonas gingivalis; bacterial-host interactions; oral biology; adherence and colonization | ||||
| Berns, Ken | Director, UF Genetics Institute | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Mircobiology |
(352) 273-8100 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Adeno-associated virus, latent viral infection, gene therapy, viral DNA replication, viral DNA integration | ||||
| Blackburn, Jason K. |
EPI Assistant Professor, and Assistant Professor of Geography | EPI; Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of geography |
(352) 392-0494 | Link | |
| Expertise: | GIS, remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, disease ecology, spatial distributions of disease, anthrax, Bacillus anthracis, bacterial zoonoses | ||||
| Blackmore, Carina | State Public Health Veterinarian; State Env. Epidemiolologist |
(850) 245-4732 | |||
| Expertise: | Zoonotic disease; environmental epidemiology | ||||
| Bloom, David | Associate Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
(352) 392-8520 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Vaccine, epigenetics, persistent infection, latency, neuroinvasion, neurovirulence, neurotropism | ||||
| Bolker, Ben | Associate Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Zoology | (352) 392-5697 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Epidemic modeling; evolution of virulence; population dynamics | ||||
| Bonilla, Fred | Research Assistant Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology; IFAS/FMEL | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5825 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Malaria; Plasmodium; autophagy; proteases; parasitology; water quality; microbiologist | ||||
| Borovsky, Dob | Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences, IFAS: Dept. of Entomology and Nematology | (772) 778-7200 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Bioengineering; hormonal control; mosquito; molecular biology; physiology; biochemistry; biorational insecticides | ||||
| Bowers, Doria | Associate Professor (UNF) | Univ. of North Florida; College of Arts and Science: Dept. of Biology | (904) 219-4936 | ||
| Expertise: | Mosquito; Sindbis virus; alpha viruses; virus persistence; salivary glands; midgut; apoptosis | ||||
| Brahmbhatt, Dipa | PhD, Candidate at Texas A&M Univ. | Texas A&M Univ.; Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science: Dept. of Vet. Integrative Biosciences | (979) 845-3240 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Large animal veterinarian; epidemiologist; GIS specialist; disease modeling; public health; animal health | ||||
| Brown, Daniel | Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 294-4004 | ||
| Expertise: | Cellular microbiology, infectious diseases, bacteriology, bacterial genome sequencing and annotation, Mycoplasma, mycoplasmology, glycosidases, signal transduction | ||||
| Brown, Mary | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 3970 | Link | |
| Expertise: | quot;>Pathogenic mechanisms of mycoplasmas; respiratory infection; urogenital infection | ||||
| Bowen, Walter | Associate Director | IFAS: International Programs | (352) 392-1965 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Soil science; agriculture; environment | ||||
| Brlanksky, Ron | Professor | IFAS / Citrus Research and Education Center | (863) 956-1151 | ||
| Expertise: | Citrus systemic pathogen; Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus; Huanglongbing; stem pitting citrus tristeza virus; citrus variegated Chlorosis; Xylella fastidiosa; insect vector plant pathogens | ||||
| Burne, Bob | Professor and Chair | Dentistry: Dept. of Oral Biology | (352) 392-4370 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Bacterial virulence; molecular mechanisms; environmental influences; microbiological, biochemical, and recombinant DNA technologies | ||||
| Burridge, Michael | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 3920 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Invasive ticks; pheromone-based control; reptiles; international trade in live reptiles |
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| Castleman, Bill | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 3920 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Viral disease pathology; comparative pathology; viral respiratory disease pathogenesis; influenza virus pathogenesis | ||||
| Chen, Yuansha | Assistant Scientist | Medicine: Dept. of Pathology | (352) 392-0311 |
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| Expertise: | Pathogenic Vibrios; surface polysaccaride; bioinformatics; genomics | ||||
| Condit, Rich | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 392-3128 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Virology; genetics; transcription; virus assembly; vaccinia; poxviruses | ||||
| Connelly, Roxanne | Associate Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences, IFAS: Dept. of Entomology and Nematology | (772) 778-7200 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Medical Entomology; Mosquito Identification; Mosquito Biology; Mosquito Control | ||||
| Conti, Lisa | Director, Division of Environmental Health at Fla. Dept. of Health | Florida Department of Health | (850) 528-4687 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Public health practice; zoonoses; environmental health; one health | ||||
| Crawford, Patti | Research Assistant Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Small Animal Clinical Services | (352) 258-9263 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Canine and feline infectious disease and immunology; diagnostic tests and vaccines; transfusion medicine; blood banking | ||||
| Crawford, James | Physician/Scientist | Medicine: Dept. of Pathology | (352) 273-7839 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Microarchitecture of the liver; hepatic pathology, experimental and human; gene therapy: inherited diseases, diabetes; optical imaging of malignant and premalignant lesions | ||||
| Dai, Jianli | Research Assistant Scientist | Emerging Pathogens Institute | (352) 846-1054 | ||
| Expertise: | Mycobacterium; genome; bioinformatics; multilocus sequence typing; evolution | ||||
| Dame, John | Professor and Chair | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5818 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Parasitology; malaria; molecular parasitology; molecular biology; anti-malarial drug target identification and validation; attenuated anti-malarial vaccine; proteases | ||||
| Dark, Michael | Assistant professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5838 | Link |
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| Expertise: | Anaplasma; veterinary pathology; high-throughput genome sequencing; comparative bacterial genomics | ||||
| Day, Jonathan | Professor of Medical Entomology | IFAS: Florida Medical Entomology Lab | (772) 778-7200 ext.132 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Arboviral surveillance; arboviral transmission; arboviral amplification; arboviral transmission risk assessment; West Nile virus; eastern equine encephalitis virus; St. Louis encephalitis virus | ||||
| Derendorf, Hartmut | Distinguished professor and Chair | Pharmacy: Dept. of Pharmaceutics | (352) 273-7856 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Pharmacokinectis; pharmacodynamics; PK-PD modeling; drug development; tissue Levels of anti-infective agents; microdialysis; kill curve analysis | ||||
| Dickinson, Richard | Professor | Engineering: Dept. of Chemical Engineering | (352) 392-0898 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Actin-based motility; invasive pathogens; Listeria; Shigella; Rickettsia; polymerization motors | ||||
| Dunn, Ben | Distinguished Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Biochemisry | (352) 392-3362 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Protease enzymology; protein structural biology; aspartic proteinases; drug discovery; peptide chemistry;HIV, malaria | ||||
| Duran, Randolph | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Agronomy | (352) 392-2011 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Conducting polymers; polymer and liquid crystal thin films; non-linear optics; scanning probe microscopy; Langmuir-Blodgett-Kuhn films; polymer glasses; x-ray diffractometry and reflectometr; physical, analytical, and organic studies of polymers | ||||
| Fan, Z.Hugh | Associate Professor | Engineering: Dept. of Engineering | (352) 846-3021 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Microfluidics, sensors, proteomics, toxins, protein expression, PCR | ||||
| Gallo, Maria | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Agronomy | (352) 273-8124 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Molecular genetics of plants; peanuts; Florida agronomic crops; novel genotypes; mechanisms of gene regulation | ||||
| Gao, Bin | Assistant Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering | (352) 392-1864, ext. 285 | ||
| Expertise: | Water quality; hydrologic modeling; pathogen fate and transport | ||||
| Gaskin, Jack | Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5862 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Veterinary microbiology; Veterinary bacteriology; Veterinary virology; Veterinary mycology; Veterinary infectious disease; Veterinary parasitology; public health | ||||
| Gibbs, Paul | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5882 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Veterinary virology; epidemiology of arboviruses; zoonoses; disease control policy; vaccine development; international organizations; distance learning | ||||
| Giguere, Steeve |
Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Large Animal Clinical Sciences | (352) 392-2229, ext. 5678 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Equine infectious diseases; antimicrobial therapy; pharmacokinetics; Rhodococcus equi infections | ||||
| Giron, Jorge | Professor | Medicine: Depart. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 392-7077 | ||
| Expertise: | Structural microbiology; E. coli; pili; V. cholera; host colonization; genetic expression of virulence | ||||
| Gray, Gregory | Professor; Chair of Environmental and Global Health (as of Jan. 2010) | Public Health and Health Professions: Depart. of Environmental and Global Health | (352) 273-9188 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Epidemiology; infectious diseases; zoonotic diseases | ||||
| Greiner, Ellis | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5861 | ||
| Expertise: | Parasites; parasite diagnostics; terrestrial or human hosts; helminths; protozoans; arthropods | ||||
| Grieshaber, Scott | Assistant Professor | Dentistry: Dept. of Oral Biology | (352) 846-0265 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Intracellular pathogens; Chlamydia; Rickettsia; cell biology; cytoskeleton; microtubules; actin | ||||
| Gulig, Paul | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 392-0050 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Bacterial pathogenesis; Vibrio vulnificus; microbe detection; bacterial genetics; phage display | ||||
| Gums, John | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Community, Health and Family Medicine; and Pharmacy: Dept. of Pharmacy Practice | (352) 392-4541 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Antibiotic surveillance; data mining in antibiotic resistance; improving antibiotic stewardship; antibiotic resistance; correlating resistance trends to antibiotic utilization; documenting outcomes of antibiotic stewardship efforts; Antimicrobial Resistance Management (A.R.M.) Program |
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| Handfield, Martin | Associate Professor | Dentistry: Dept. of Oral Biology | (352) 846-0763 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Molecular characterization of human bacterial infections; integrated tools of molecular biology; genetics and immunology; pathogenic microorganism protein expression | ||||
| Hansen, Peter | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Animal Sciences; IFAS | (352) 392-5590 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Ruminant reproduction; cellular stress; embryonic function | ||||
| Harmon, Carrie Lapaire | Associate Director, Southern Plant Diagnostic Network | IFAS: Dept. of Plant Pathology | (352) 392-3631, ext. 254 | Link | |
| Expertise: | National Plant Diagnostic Network; Southern Plant Diagnostic Network; plant diagnostic lab; international plant diagnostics training; first detector; plant pathology and disease | ||||
| Harvey, Bill | Professor, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience | Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience: Dept. of Physiology | (904) 461-4045 | Link | |
| Expertise: | V-ATPase; amino acid transporters; Na+/H+ Antiporters; Na+/H+ exchangers; mosquito midgut; Anopheles gambiae; Aedes aegypti; pH regulation; cation regulation; Bacillus thuringiensis Israelensis | ||||
| Hernandez, Jorge | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Large Animal Clinical Science | (352) 392-2212, ext. 4105 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Clinical epidemiology;disease; food animal; equine athlete; wildlife | ||||
| Hoel, David | Program Manager, Medical Ento Collaborations, NMCPHC Det. CMAVE | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture: Agriculture Research Services | (352) 374-5924 | ||
| Expertise: | Mosquito; Aedes albopictus; mosquito trap; light emitting diode; octenol; lactic acid; bionomics | ||||
| Holt, Robert | Professor, and Chair | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Zoology | (352) 392-6917 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Ecology | ||||
| Isaza, Ramiro | Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Small Animal Clinical Sciences | (352) 392-2235, ext. 5743 | ||
| Expertise: | Zoological medicine; non-domestic species; wildlife; zoonotic diseases; tuberculosis; elephants; pharmacokinetics | ||||
| Jacobson, Elliott | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Small Animal Clinical Sciences | (352) 392-2226, ext. 5775 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Reptiles; infectious diseases; pathology; medicine; blood values | ||||
| Jermaine, Christopher | Assistant Professor | Engineering: Dept. of Computer and Information Science Engineering | (352) 392-2691 | Link | |
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| Jin,Shouguang | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Mircobiology | (352) 392-8323 | ||
| Expertise: | Host-pathogen interaction; antibiotic resistance; bacterial pathogenesis; pathogen and toxin detection; membrane permeability; Type III secretion; Pseudomonas aeruginosa | ||||
| Johnson, Judith | Director of CORE laboratories, and Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Pathology | (352) 392-2165 | Link | |
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Clinical microbiology; bacterial polysaccharides; antibiotic resistance; molecular typing |
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| Kane, Andy | Director of Aquatic Pathobiology Lab; Associate Professor | Public Health and Health Professions: Environmental Health Program | (352) 273-7983 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Aquatic pathobiology; fish; fish disease; water; toxicology; environment; outreach; aquatic animal health | ||||
| Keesling, James | Professor, and Chair | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Mathematics | (352) 392-0281, ext. 289 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Biomathematical modeling; modeling insect migration; modeling transmission of dengue hemorrhagic fever; chaotic dynamics; fractal geometry; stochastic processes | ||||
| Kima, Peter | Associate Professor | IFAS | (352) 392-0384 | ||
| Expertise: | Parasitology; immunoparasitology; tropical infectious disease; cell biology | ||||
| Klein, Paul | Professor Emeritus | Medicine: Pathology | (352) 331-8557 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Immunology, virology, microbial pathogenesis and host defense mechanisms in lower vertebrates; serodiagnosis and seroepidemiology of infectious diseases of wildlife | ||||
| Koroly, Mary Jo | Director, Center for Pre-Collegiate Education and Training; Academic Affairs | Medicine: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | (352) 392-7685 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Research Education; HHMI pre-college grant on emerging pathogens |
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| Lamont, Richard | Professor | Dentistry: Oral Biology | (352) 273-8861 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Molecular pathogenesis of oral bacteria, bacterial host cell interactions, multi-species community development, oral-systemic disease associations | ||||
| Larkin III, Joseph | Assistant Professor | IFAS | (352) 392-6884 | Link | |
| Expertise: | T cell tolerance; regulatory T cell; thymic development; autoimmune disease; diabetes | ||||
| Lauzardo, Michael | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Medicine | (352) 265-7682 | ||
| Expertise: | Pulmonary medicine; tuberculosis | ||||
| Lee, Won Suk | Associate Professor | IFAS: Agricultural and Biological Engineering | (352) 392-1864 ext. 227 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Image processing; hyperspectral imaging; citrus greening disease; Huanglongbing, HLB | ||||
| Levy, Julie | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Small Animal Clinical Sciences | (352) 392-2226, ext. 5717 | ||
| Expertise: | Feline infectious diseases; canine infectious diseases; feral cat population control; immunocontraception; animal welfare; shelter medicine | ||||
| Linser, Paul | Professor | Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience | (904) 461-4036 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Larval mosquito biology; vector insects; cell biology; molecular biology; molecular physiology | ||||
| Liu, Chen | Associate Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Pathology | (352) 273-5413 | ||
| Expertise: | HBV; HCV; innate immunity; apoptosis; interferon; adaptive immunity | ||||
| Long, Maureen | Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 14026 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Veterinary medicine; large animal medicine; equine; viruses; West Nile virus; Ehrlicia; eastern equine encephalitis virus | ||||
| Lord, Cynthia | Associate Professor | Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | (352) 778-7200 ext. 157 | Link | |
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| Lounibos, L. Philip | Professor | Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | (772) 778-7200 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Invasive species; mosquito biology; vector ecology | ||||
| Mai, Volker | Assistant Professor | IFAS | (352) 846-0956 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Gut microbiota; microbial ecology; infectious causes of cancer; diet and cancer; novel diarrhea pathogens; bacteriophage treatment | ||||
| Marois, Jim | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Plant Pathology; IFAS | (850) 875-7120 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Emerging plant pathogens; soybean rust; plant epidemiology | ||||
| Maruniak, James E. | Associate Professor | IFAS Dept, of Entomology and Nematology; Microbiology and Cell Science | (352) 273-3960 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Virology; arboviruses; mosquitoes; insect viruses; baculovirus biocontrol; protein expression | ||||
| Mayer, Brian | Assistant Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Sociology | (352) 392-0265, ext. 228 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Environmental sociology; risk communication; social and behavioral sciences | ||||
| Mergia, Ayalew | Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 3939 | Link | |
| Expertise: | HIV; foamy virus vectors; molecular virology | ||||
| Moore, Gloria | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Horticultural Sciences | (352) 392-4711, ext. 221 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Citrus pathogens; citrus greening; citrus canker; systemic acquired resistance | ||||
| Morris, J. Glenn | EPI Director; Professor | EPI; Public Health and Health Professions: Dept. of Public Health | (352) 273-7526 | ||
| Expertise: | Foodborne illness; antimicrobial resistance; emerging pathogens | ||||
| Moussatche, Nissin | Associate Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 392-3093 | ||
| Expertise: | Poxvirus; vaccinia virus; viral replication; virus morphogenesis; antiviral research | ||||
| Moyer, Richard | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 273-5230 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Poxviruses; animal models; virus mediated control of apoptosis; host response | ||||
| Mulligan, Connie | UF Genetics Institute Associate Director; Associate Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Anthropology | (352) 273-8092 | Link | |
| Expertise: | HIV; Yemen; Horn of Africa; molecular genetics; population history | ||||
| Myers, Paul | Assistant Director, Alachua County Health Department | Alachua County Health Department | (352) 334-7902 | ||
| Expertise: | Environmental health; public health; septic tanks | ||||
| Neira Oviedo, Marco | Post-doctoral Researcher | Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience | (904) 718-0567 | ||
| Expertise: | Mosquito larval biology; medical entomology; molecular biology; gene expression analysis; bioinformatics; vector competence; arthropod-borne viruses | ||||
| Nishida, Toshikazu | Associate Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Small Animal Clinical Services | (352) 392-2226, ext. 5286 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Virus; novel pathogen; marine; veterinary; disease; marine mammal | ||||
| Okech, Bernard | Research Assistant Scientist | Public Health and Health Professions: Dept. of Epidemiology and Statistics | (904) 461-4024 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Malaria; gametocytes; vector competence; larval biology and ecology; Anopheles mosquitoes; mosquito midgut; Africa integrated malaria control | ||||
| Oli, Madan | Associate Professor | Agricultural and Life Sciences: Dept. of Wildlife and Ecology Conservation | (352) 846-0561 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Disease dynamics; disease models; transmission rates; ecology of infectious diseases; population dynamics; population models | ||||
| O'Meara, George | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | (772) 778-7200 | ||
| Expertise: | Mosquito biology; mosquito control; invasive species | ||||
| Osenberg, Craig | Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Zoology | (352) 392-9201 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Population and community ecology; aquatic ecology; meta-analysis; coral reef ecology; impact assessment design | ||||
| Peloquin, Charles | Director, Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory; and Professor | Pharmacy; and EPI | (352) 273-6266 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Therapeutic drug monitoring; pharmacokinetics; tuberculosis; mycobacterial infections; agressive infections; multi-drug regimens | ||||
| Petty, Denise | Clinical Assistant Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Large Animal Clinical Services | (352) 392-9617, ext. 229 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Aquaculture; aquatic animals; finfish; shellfish | ||||
| Polston, Jane | Professor | IFAS: Dept. of Plant Pathology | (352) 392-3631, ext. 341 | ||
| Expertise: | Plant virus; transgenic resistance; ssDNA virus; Geminivirus | ||||
| Progulske-Fox, Ann |
Distinguished Professor |
Dentistry: Dept. of Oral Biology |
(352) 273-8835 | ||
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| Rajanna, Chythanya |
Research Assistant Professor | College of Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
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| Expertise: | Yersinia pestis; bacteriophage; molecular epidemiology; Vibro cholerae; bacterial pathogenesis; bacterial biofilms | ||||
| Radonovish, Lewis | Director of Biosecurity Programs, Office of Program Development, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System | College of Medicine: Dept. of Medicine | (352) 376-1611, ext.4985 |
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| Expertise: | Biosecurity; influenza; personal protective equipment; respirators; occupational health; infection control; epidemics | ||||
| Rand, Kenneth | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Pathology, Imunology and Laboratory Medicine | (265) 265-111 ext. 72039 | ||
| Expertise: | Clinical microbiology; clinical virology; infectious diseases; antibiotic susceptibility; antibiotic synergy; real-time PCR | ||||
| Rashid, Mohammed | Associate Post-Doctoral | Emerging Pathogens Institute | (352) 273-5423 |
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| Expertise: | Bacterial pathogenesis; molecular epidemiology; bacterial biofilms; Vibrio cholerae; rugose exopolysaccharide; Yersinia pestis; bacteriophage | ||||
| Reed, David | Assistant Curator of Mammalogy | Florida Museum of Natural History: Mammology Range | (352) 273-1971 | ||
| Expertise: | Mammamlogy; phylogenetics; host/parasite coevolution; population genetics; phylogeography; genomics; bioinformatics | ||||
| Rey, Jorge | Professor | IFAS: Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | (772) 778-7200, ext. 136 | ||
| Expertise: | Mosquito; vector; ecology; wetlands; urban; dengue; GIS | ||||
| Richards, Stephanie | Research Assistant Scientist | IFAS: Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | (772) 778-7200 | ||
| Expertise: | Vector competence; vector-virus interactions; arbovirology; West Nile virus; Saint Louis encephalitis virus | ||||
| Roberts, Stephen | Professor and Program Director | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Physiological Sciences | (352) 392-2243, ext. 5500 |
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| Expertise: | Immunotoxicology; nanomaterial biocompatibility; risk assessment | ||||
| Roderick, Gary | Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Food Science | (352) 392-1991 |
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| Expertise: | Food safety; seafood safety; Schistosomiasis; molluscan control; oyster processing and post harvest treatments | ||||
| Romero, Carlos | Research Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Disease and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 5871 |
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| Expertise: | Animal virology: exotic viruses of livestock and poultry; emerging viruses of marine mammals; development and testing of conventional and recombinant vaccines for livestock and poultry based on pox- and herpes-virus vectors | ||||
| Roy, Manojit | Postdoc | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Zoology | (352) 392-1040 |
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| Expertise: | Theoretical ecology; disease ecology; infectious disease epidemiology; population ecology; community ecology | ||||
| Sabarinath, Sreedharan Nair | Postdoctoral Fellow | Pharmacy: Dept. of Pharmaceutics | (352) 273-7855 |
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| Expertise: | Pharmacokinetics (PK); pharmacometrics; pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD); modeling and simulation; pharmaceutics | ||||
| Salemi, Marco | Medicine: Dept. of Pathology |
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| Expertise: | Phylogenetic analysis; molecular evolution; molecular epidemiology; viral evolution; HIV evolution; phylodynamics; viral population genetics | ||||
| Sammons, David | Dean, International Center | IFAS: Dept. of Agronomy | (352) 273-1536 |
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| Expertise: | International agriculture; food systems; environment; natural resources; plant genetics; crop breeding | ||||
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| Schuerger, Andrew |
Plant Pathologist | Agriculture: Dept. of Plant Pathology | (321) 861-3478 |
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| Expertise: | Astrobiology; aerobiology; pathogen dispersal; global dispersal; planetary protection; Mars exploration; pathogen ecology | ||||
| Schultz, Gregory | Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology | (352) 273-7560 | ||
| Expertise: | Herpes simplex; bacterial biofilms; microbicidal dressings; rapid point-of-care diagnostics; matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors | ||||
| Shenkman, Elizabeth | Professor and Chair | Medicine: Dept. of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research | (352) 265-7220, ext. 86333 | ||
| Expertise: | Child health outcomes | ||||
| Sigmund, Wolfgang | Professor | Engineering: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering | (352) 846-3343 | ||
| Expertise: | Aerosol filter; water filter; filter regeneration; electrospinning; nanofiberfilter; nanoparticle; photocatalysis | ||||
| Simonne, Amarat | Associate Professor | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Family, Youth and Community Services | (352) 273-3536 |
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| Smart, Chelsea | Assistant Professor | Agriculture and LIfe Sciences: Dept. of Nematology and Entomology | (772) 778-7200 |
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| Smith, Dave | EPI Associate Director of Disease Ecology; Associate Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Zoology | (202) 684-6806 | ||
| Expertise: | Malaria; antimalarial drug resistance; antibiotic resistance; bioeconomics of infectious diseases; spatial ecology; vector-borne diseases | ||||
| Smith, John | Director, Florida A&M University, Public Health Entomology Research & Education Center | Florida A&M University, JAMS Public Health Entomology Research & Education Center | (850) 872-4184 Ext 23 | ||
| Expertise: | Medical and veterinary entomology; arbovirus ecology; mosquito population sampling and dynamics | ||||
| Song, Wen-Yuan | Associate Professor | Agricultural and Life Sciences: Dept. of Plant Pathology | (352) 392-3631 | ||
| Expertise: | Plant-pathogen interactions | ||||
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| Expertise: | Macrophages; neutrophils; anthrax; shigella; listeria; actin-regulatory proteins; cell motility | ||||
| Stanek, Danielle | Medical epidemiologist | Florida Dept. of Health | (850) 245-4117 | ||
| Expertise: | Zoonotic disease; zoonoses; rabies; brucella; vectorborne; tick | ||||
| Staras, Stephanie | Research Assistant Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Epidemiology and Health Policy | (352) 265-0111, ext. 86523 | ||
| Expertise: | Epidemiology; HIV; STDs; alcohol; adolescents; partner selection | ||||
| Sulakvelidze, Alexander | Associate Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Biology | (410) 913-7943 |
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| Tabachnik, Walter | Professor; Director of Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory | Agricultural and Life Sciences: Dept. of Entomology and Nematology; IFAS | (772) 778-7200 | ||
| Expertise: | Vector-borne pathogens; arboviruses; vector competence; genetics; population genetics | ||||
| Tan, Weihong | Chair Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Chemistry | (352) 846-2410 |
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| Expertise: | Chemical biology; molecular engineering; bionanotechnology; bioanalysis; aptamers; aptamer applications in infectious diseases; ultrasensitive bacterium monitoring using nanotechnology; nanoparticles | ||||
| Tatem, Andy | Assistant Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Geography | (352) 392-0494, ext. 211 |
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| Expertise: | Malaria; GIS; remote sensing; vector-borne disease mapping; populations at risk; transport networks; invasive species | ||||
| Tennant, Michele | University Librarian | Health Science Center: Libraries | (352) 273-8426 | ||
| Expertise: | Information-seeking behavior; bioinformatics resources | ||||
| Triplett, Eric | Professor and Chair | Agriculture and Life Sciences: Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science | (352) 392-5430 |
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| Expertise: | Microbe-plant interactions; microbial ecology; genomics; biodiversity | ||||
| Vallad, Gary | Assistant Professor | IFAS: Gulf Coast REC | (813) 633-4121 |
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| Van Bruggen, Ariena | Professor of Plant Pathology | Agriculture and Life Sciences: plant pathology; IFAS; and EPI | 352 392-3631, ext. 383 |
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| Vitek, Christopher | Postdoctoral Associate | Agricultural and LIfe Sciences: Dept. of Entomology and Nematology; IFAS | (772) 778-7200, ext. 189 |
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| Waylen, Peter | Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Geography | (352) 392-0494 ext. 203 | ||
| Expertise: | Climate variability | ||||
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| Expertise: | Quantitative genetics; evolution of virulence | ||||
| White, Graham Bruce |
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Agricultural and Life Sciences; IFAS: Dept. of Entomology and Nematology | (352) 328-9473 | ||
| Expertise: | Biology and control of vector-borne diseases | ||||
| Wiens, Brenda | Research Assistant Professor | Public Health and Health Professions: Dept. of Clinical and Health Psychology | (352) 273-5120 | ||
| Expertise: | Post-disaster stress; mental health; psychological response to disasters; psychological response to terrorism | ||||
| Wright, Anita | Associate Professor | Agricultural and Life Sciences: Dept. of Food Science and Health Nutrition | (352) 392-1991, ext. 311 | ||
| Expertise: | Vibrios; oysters; shellfish; diagnostics; food safety | ||||
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Professor | Veterinary Medicine: Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Pathology | (352) 392-2239, ext. 3945 | ||
| Expertise: | T-cell based vaccinology; cellular immunology; immunoinformatics; comparative immunology; comparative retrovirology; transplantation immunology | ||||
| Yilmaz, Ozlem | Assistant Professor | Dentistry: Dept. of Periodontology | (352) 273-8003 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Gram-negative anaerobe bacteria; epithelial cell signaling; apoptosis; persistence; receptor-ligand interaction; RNA interference; fluorescence microscopy | ||||
| Yost, Richard | Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Chemistry | (352) 392-0557 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; trace analysis; imaging | ||||
| Young, Alyson | Assistant Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences: Dept. of Anthropology | (352) 392-1896 | Link | |
| Expertise: | Medical anthropology and child survival; zoonotic and waterborne disease transmission; East Africa; Tanzanian pastoralists; harm reduction and risk perception; human-livestock interaction; household resource security | ||||
| Zhou, Lei | Associate Professor | Medicine: Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | (352) 273-8169 | ||
| Expertise: | Apoptosis; vector biology; mosquito cell death; pro-apoptotic genes; genetic insecticide | ||||
