From engineering to infectious disease research, Brittany Russ’s path reflects the power of pivoting with purpose. A South Florida native and graduate of the University of Florida, Brittany earned her undergraduate degree in materials science and engineering before completing a master’s in biomedical engineering. She now works in the lab…
We are pleased to recognize Nicole Adams of Dr. Mary Brown’s Lab for receiving the Rookie of the Year Superior Accomplishment Award! The University of Florida 2026 Superior Accomplishment Awards program honors faculty and staff who have demonstrated outstanding and meritorious service, efficiency and economy in their work, and who…
Dorothea Megarani’s PhD focus is Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV), which she is researching under the supervision of Dr. Kuttichantran Subramaniam. Her goal is to develop a CRISPR-based field diagnostic tool and to explore how environmental factors like glyphosate affect disease outcomes in aquaculture. Originally from Indonesia, Dorothea plans to return…
Nimra Khalid is this month’s featured researcher and a Ph.D. student in the Eshraghi Lab. She’s tackling bacterial infections through innovative strategies that kill pathogens or block their ability to cause disease. Originally trained as a veterinarian in Pakistan, her clinical work sparked a deeper interest in drug-resistant infections. Her…
We’re excited to highlight the work of Opeoluwa Iwaloye, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate conducting innovative research in Dr. Clayton Mathews’s lab and affiliate of the University of Florida Diabetes Institute. Her research focuses on the IFIH1 gene, a known risk factor for type 1 diabetes, and how it shapes immune…
We’d like to thank all faculty, staff, and students who attended making the event a success. We enjoyed learning about the exciting, innovative research happening across our community and celebrating the hard work of all our presenters. Congratulations to everyone who participated! We’re proud to share the winners of…
Sergio Ray, a third-year undergraduate student working in the laboratory of Dr. Julie Moore, a professor and chair of the college’s department of infectious diseases and immunology, received an AI Scholars award from UF to work with Moore next year on a project relating to malaria. Read more…
Dr. Rowan Milner and Dr. Maria von Chamier of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine are part of a collaboration with the UF Colleges of Engineering and Medicine to characterize the microanatomy of the Yucatan miniature swine model to study targeting and delivery of alpha-particle dosimetry. The model characterization will…
Isabelle M. Llabona, Dr. Aria Eshraghi, and Ashley Clarke have unexpectedly found that a widely used pesticide also hampers the growth of a highly infectious bacterial pathogen responsible for tularemia, a disease affecting both animals and humans. Please click here for the full story.
UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute has written an article on the rise of babesiosis, a tick-borne disease, throughout the US. It details the work that IDI’s postdoctoral associate Dr. Jeff Gruntmeir and the Dinglasan Lab have done to track the spread of this emerging pathogen. Please click…
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