Marta Reguera Gómez wins the 2025 postdoctoral research poster competition
Marta Reguera Gómez, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate at the UF College of Dentistry, won first place in the postdoctoral poster competition at EPI Research Day 2025.
Marta Reguera Gómez, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate at the UF College of Dentistry, won first place in the postdoctoral poster competition at EPI Research Day 2025.
A multidisciplinary team of scientists will study how wildfire smoke spreads fungi that can affect human health, using artificial intelligence to predict future threats.
A known pathogenic fungus, so far only reported to cause disease in two crops, has ensnared a third victim: eggplants. UF plant pathologists affiliated with both UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and the EPI, were the first to describe Lasiodiplodia hormozganensis’s jump to a new host.
Plant pathology researchers with UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute and IFAS seek to uncover what drives the spread of laurel wilt disease, an emerging forest pathogen responsible for killing more than 300 million redbays. A new study led by IFAS-EPI postdoctoral researcher Robin Choudhury found that the biggest indicator of a Laurel family trees’ susceptibility was having a large diameter trunk and dense clustering.