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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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Norman Beatty, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, College of Medicine
- Chagas disease
- Triatomines
- Kissing bugs
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- Tropical medicine
Torben Becker, MD, PhD, MBA
Vice-Chair of Critical Care, Director of Global Health
Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine
- Global health
- Cardiac arrest
- Point-of-care ultrasound
- Infectious diseases
- Prehospital care
Donald Behringer, PhD
Professor
School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Marine
- Disease
- Ecology
- Crustacean
- Invasion
Sophie Berube, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- Malaria
- Genomics
- Serology
- Modeling
- Macrosystems biogeography
- Human-environment interactions
- Medical geography
- Spatial epidemiology
- Anthrax
- Brucellosis
- Animal movements
- Insecticide and repellent chemistry
- Toxicology
- Design
- 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