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.
Robert Cook, MD, MPH
Professor and Center Director
Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- HIV
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Alcohol and drug use
- Diverse populations
Cynda Crawford, DVM, PhD
Fredrica Saltzman Endowed Professorship Chair in Shelter Medicine
Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Pathogenesis and epidemiology of canine respiratory pathogens in shelters
- Development and validation of diagnostic assays for canine respiratory and gastrointestinal pathogens
- Epidemiology
- Disease transmission
- Arboviruses
- Viral infections
- Respiratory infections
Daniel Czyz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Cell Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Bacteriophages
- Proteostasis
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Microbiota
Michelle Danyluk, PhD
Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
- Food safety
- Produce
- Salmonella
- E. coli
- L. monocytogenes
Michael Dark, DVM, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor / Executive Director
Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Pathology
- Bacteriology
- Genomics
- Informatics
- Oncology
Cleverson de Souza, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVP
Associate Professor
Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Machine learning applied to cancer diagnostic in companion animals
- Peptide vaccines against bovine paratuberculosis
- Canine macrophages
Sally DeNotta, DVM, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Equine infectious disease
- Equine event outbreak
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Natural products
- Synthetic biology
- Antibiotics
- New target
- Drug resistance
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