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.
Donald Behringer, PhD
Professor
School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Marine
- Disease
- Ecology
- Crustacean
- Invasion
- Insect-pathogen interactions
- Insect viruses
- Bacteria derived pesticidal proteins
- Insect gut physiology
- Biotechnology
- Enteric viruses and their pathogenesis
- Interferons and cytokines
- Polarized intestinal epithelial cells and organoids
- Single cell omics to host/pathogen interactions
- Bioengineering and organ on chips
Daniel R. Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Cellular microbiology
- Veterinary medicine
- Mycoplasma
- Systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Shantrel Canidate, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor; EPI Associate Director for Outreach and Community Partnerships
Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions/College of Medicine
- Health disparities
- HIV
- Substance use
- Artifical intelligence
- Biobehavioral interventions
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Non-tuberculous mycobacteria
- Antibiotics
- Mechanism-of-action
- Antibiotic resistance
Marc Chevrette, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Secondary metabolism
- Anitimicrobials and therapeutic discovery
- Microbial interactions
- Microbial ecology and evolution
- Microbiome