Dr. Apichai Tuanyok is a microbiologist specializing in melioidosis, a deadly tropical disease caused by B. pseudomallei, which is also classified as a Tier 1 biothreat agent. Born and educated in Thailand, with a Ph.D. from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he has spent more than two decades investigating…
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…
Dr. Clayton Mathews is the IDI Chair, Director of the Center for Cellular Reprogramming, and a professor at the University of Florida with over 30 grants and 150 publications. His research focuses on diabetes, energy metabolism, and the genetic and cellular drivers of beta cell failure and autoimmunity. His lab…
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…
Dr. Clayton Mathews, Sebastian Family Professor for Diabetes Research Dr. Clayton Matthews has been named chair of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, following a national search. Read more here.
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…
Dear CVM Community, I’m proud to announce that Rhoel Dinglasan, Ph.D., M.P.H., a professor of infectious diseases in the college’s department of infectious diseases and immunology, has received a UF Research Foundation professorship. This recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and…
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.
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