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.
- Infectious diseases transmission and control
- Vaccine trials
- Biostatistics
- Stochastic processes
- Mathematical modeling
- Malaria
- 13C metabolic flux analysis
- Kinetic modeling
Cynthia Lord, PhD
Associate Professor
Florida Medical Entomology Lab, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Vector population dynamics
- Modeling
- Transmission dynamics
- Ticks
- Mosquitoes
Brittany Magalis, PhD
Research Assistant Scientist
Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine
- Virus evolution
- Molecular epidemiology
- Phyloanatomy
- Sociovirology
Volker Mai, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions, College of Medicine
- Microbiota
- Diet
- Infectious disease
- Cancer
- Epidemiology
- Agent-based modeling and simulation for epidemics
- Geospatial network analysis
- Spatial accessibility and disparities
Nicole Maranchick, PharmD
Pharmacist
Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Treatments for serious infections
- Mosquito
- Virus
- Vector control
- Vector competence
- Fungal pathogenesis and immunology
- Fungal biofilms
- Central nervous system fungal infections
Anthony Maurelli, PhD
Professor
Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions
- Bacterial pathogenesis
- Chlamydia genetics and pathogenesis
- Shigella genetics and pathogenesis
- Wastewater based surveillance
- Water security