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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.
Robert Huigens, PhD
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
- Drug discovery
- Chemical synthesis
- Medicinal chemistry
- Antibiotics
- Bacterial biofilms
- Emerging infections
- Multi-drug resistant bacteria
- Influenza
- COVID-19
- Clinical trials
Ramiro Isaza, DVM, MPH
Professor of Zoological Medicine
Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Elephant diseases, management and physiology
- Zoonotic diseases of non-domestic species
- Epidemiology in captive animal populations
- Public health pertaining to non-domestic species
- HIV
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Food safety
- Nanotechnology
- Probiotics
Melissa Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Microbiology and Cell Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Noroviruses
- Bacterial extracellular vesicles
- Mucosal immunology
- Microbiome
- Host-pathogen interaction
Andy Kane, PhD, MS
Director, Aquatic Pathobiology Laboratory
Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- Environmental and public health issues
- Pathology and toxicology of aquatic biota
- Occupational health and safety
- Extant coastal oyster habitat
- Scientific communications
- Norovirus pathogenesis
- Virus-microbiota interactions
- Neonatal immunity to viruses
- Microbial metabolite control of virus infections
- Behavioral disease ecology
Peter Kima, MSPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Cell Science, College of Agriculture and Life Science
- Leishmania pathogenesis
- Extracellular vesicle biology
- PI3K/AKT signaling
- Cell biology of infection