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.
Ana Maria Porras, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
- Human microbiome
- Tissue engineering
- Biomaterials
- Global health
- Neglected tropical parasitic infections
Boone Prentice, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Imaging mass spectrometry
- Metabolomics
- Clostridium difficile infection
- Molecular pathology
- Staphylococcus aureus infection
Cindy Prins, PhD. MPH
Clinical Associate Professor
Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- Hospital epidemiology
- Infection prevention and control
- Vaccine uptake
Mattia Prosperi, PhD
Professor, Associated Dean for AI and Innovation
Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- AI
- Data science
- Biomedical informatics
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology
- Phage therapy
- Genetics
- Immunology
- Cancer research
Adam Rivers, PhD
Computational Biologist
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Courtesy Faculty)
- Microbiomes
- Microbial consortia engineering
- Animal and plant disease diagnostics
- Machine learning
Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP
Associate Professor
Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Dermatopathology
- Pathology
- Anatomic
- Microbiome
- Fungi
- Mathematical modeling
- Viral and immune dynamics
- HIV HCV and influenza
- Epidemiology
- Multiscale models
Kathleen Ryan, MD
Associate Professor and Associate Chief Pediatric Infectious Disease
Pediatrics, College of Medicine
- Influenza
- School-located influenza vaccination programs
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Other viral respiratory infections
Sadie Ryan, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Geography
Geography, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Vector-borne disease
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Disease ecology
- Climate health