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 200 distinguished faculty members, EPI supports the best minds. Biologists, epidemiologists, geographers, biostatician, mathematicians, physicians, veterinarians and other scientists create the strong collaborative spirit of EPI.
Rhoel Dinglasan, PhD, MPH, MPhil
Professor
Infectious Diseases & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Malaria
- Arbovirus
- Vector biology & ecology
- Systems biology of vector-borne diseases
- Global one health
Mariola Edelman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Salmonella
- Extracellular vesicles
- Bioactive lipids
- Innate immunity
- Proteomics
- Phage
- Phageome
- Microbiome
- Multi-drug resistant organisms
- Cancer (stem cell transplant, colorectal, head and neck)
Aria Eshraghi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Toxins
- Bacterial secretion systems
- Microbiology