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The Emerging Pathogens Institutes has members that span among 13 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.
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Bikash Sahay, B.V.Sc&A.H, M.V.Sc., PhD
Research Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Gut-microbiota
- Vaccine development
- Host-pathogen interaction
Karla Saldana Ochoa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Architecture, College of Design Construction and Planning
- AI
- Architecture
- Disaster response
- Digital twin
- Data analysis
Marco Salemi, PhD
Professor and EPI Associate Director for Research Initiatives
Pathology Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine
- Virus evolution
- Phylogenetic analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- Food safety microbiology
- Pyelonephritis
- Fungal infections
- Iron
- Hepcidin
- Immunology
- 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 biology
- Systematics
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Plant pathogens