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.
Angela Lindsey, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Family, Youth, & Community Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Crisis communication
- Disaster
- Resilience
- Issues management
- Communication
Maureen Long, DVM, PhD
Professor, Virology and Large Animal Internal Medicine
Comparative Diagnostic Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Arboviruses
- SARS-CoV-2
- Animal infections
- 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
Simone Marini, PhD
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions; College of Medicine
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Inflammation
- Artificial intelligence
- Genomics
- Single-cell RNA sequencing