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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.
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- Medical errors
- Leadership
- Change management
- Medical teamwork
- Toyota production system
- 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
Banikalyan Swain, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Vaccinology
- Molecular biology
- Immunology
Daniel Swale, PhD
Associate Professor
Entomology and Nematology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Neurotoxicology
- Arboviruses
- Tickborne pathogens
- Insecticide
- Pathogen-vector interactions
Xin Tang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Biomechanics in cancer and metastasis
- Coupled mechano-electro-physiology
- Quantitative in vivo/in vitro functional bio-imaging
- Bio-nanotechnology
- Development of unconventional biophysical tools
Matthew Thomas, PhD
Professor and Director of the Invasion Science Research Institute
Entomology & Nematology, IFAS
- Vector-borne disease
- Ecology
- Invasive species
- Climate change
- Vector control
Eric Triplett, PhD
Professor and Chair
Microbiology and Cell Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Drivers of microbial diversity
Apichai Tuanyok, PhD
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Melioidosis
- Glanders
- Burkholderia
- Phage
- SARS-CoV-2
- Plant pathology
- Disease management
- Epidemiology
- Microbial ecology
- Plant-microbe interactions