membership directory WORKING TOGETHER TO FIGHT INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The Emerging Pathogens Institutes has members that span among 11 different colleges and units at the University of Florida. With more than 250 distinguished faculty members, EPI supports the best minds. Biologists, epidemiologists, geographers, biostatisticians, mathematicians, physicians, veterinarians and other scientists create the strong collaborative spirit of EPI.
Soohyoun (Soo) Ahn, PhD
Lecturer
Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN), College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS)
- Food safety
- Foodborne pathogens
- Sensors
- Detection
Andrew Allison, PhD
Assistant Professor of Veterinary Virology
Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Wildlife virology
- Virus evolution and emergence
- Host range and cross-species transmission
- Babesia spp.
- Tick-borne diseases
- Immune evasion
- Antigenic variation
- Cell biology
Barry Alto, PhD
Associate Professor, Association Director (FMEL)
Entomology and Nematology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Mosquito ecology
- Invasive species
- Arbovirology
Benjamin Anderson, MPH, PhD, CPH
Assistant Professor
Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- Epidemiology
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Virology
- Global health
- Zoonoses
Jennifer Andrew, PhD
Margaret A. Ross Professor
Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
- Nanomedicine
- Hydrogels
- Nanocomposites
- Human-animal interaction
- One Health
- Social determinants of health
- Health disparities
- HIV
Thomas Bannister, PhD
Research Professor
Molecular Medicine - UF Scripps, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
- Drug discovery
- Antiviral agents
- Anticancer agents
- Neurogegenerative diseases
- Medicinal chemistry
- Mosquito control
- Advanced wound dressings
- Polymeric biomaterials
Norman Beatty, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, College of Medicine
- Chagas disease
- Triatomines
- Kissing bugs
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- Tropical medicine