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 200 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.
- Food safety microbiology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Genomic epidemiology
- Global health
- Outbreak investigations
- COVID
- Infectious diseases
- Surveillance
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Clinical medicine
- Plant pathology
Jason Smith, PhD
Professor
School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- One health
- Forest health
- Fungal disease
- Mycology
- Environmental microbiology
- Fungal infections
- Respiratory infections
- Host defense
- Mathematical modeling
- Mucosal immune response
- Enteric pathogens
- Respiratory pathogens
- Interferons
- Organoids
Kuttichantran Subramaniam, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Genomics
- Phylogenomics
- Diagnostics
- Next-generation Sequencing
- Viruses
Daniel Swale, PhD
Associate Professor
Entomology and Nematology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Neurotoxicology
- Arboviruses
- Tickborne pathogens
- Insecticide
- Pathogen-vector interactions
Eric Triplett, PhD
Professor and Chair
Microbiology and Cell Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Drivers of microbial diversity