Faculty

College

Research Interests

Amy Alman

COPH

Oral Microbiome and type 1 diabetes

Andreas Seyfang

MCOM

Membrane permeases and drug delivery

Barbara Hansen

MCOM

Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease, Cardiovascular Sciences, Metabolic Regulation and Disorders

Bill Baker

CAS - Chemistry

Drug discovery/marine microbiomes

Cesar V. Borlongan

Neurosurgery & Brain repair

Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease, Biomedical Engineering & Nanomedicine, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Metabolic Regulation and Disorders, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroscience

Chengqi Wang

COPH

Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Parasitology

Christina Richards

CAS

Ecology of wild plants, the role of plant-microbe interactions in response to stress, the role of plant-microbe interactions in the process of biological invasions, the role of plant-microbe interactions in ecosystem level processes and response to global change.

Chuanhai Cao

Byrd Institute

role of immune system in disease development and find a cure to treat diseases through immune modulation approach including vaccination and natural product.

David Himmelgreen

CAS - Anthropology

Food Security/insecurity

Elizabeth Wood

MCOM - Core Facility

Proteomics

Feng Cheng

COPH

Drug discovery and development using computational methods (including molecular docking, pharmacophore mapping, and machine learning).

Ganesh Halade

Heart Institute

chronic inflammation and immune responsive metabolic dysregulation contributes to ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure.

George Philippidis

Patel College of Sustainability

Microbiomes, Red Tide, Omics

Hariom Yadav

Neurosurgery & Brain repair

Gut Brain Axis/ Aging

Hong Yuan (Rays) Jiang

COPH

Genomics

Jasenka Zubcevic

Neurosurgery & Brain repair

Microbiomes and Metabolic Diseases. Lab website: https://zubceviclab.com/

Jim Leahy

CAS - Chemistry

Drug discovery

Jolan Walter

MCOM

allergic diseases, immunodeficiencies and immune dysregulation

Kami Kim

MCOM

Pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis and malaria

Kellie Larsen

MCOM

How gut health affects immune system specifically immune disregulation

Kim Rathbun

College of Nursing

Oral Microbiome 

Larry Dishaw

COPH

Immunological Mechanisms of The Gut Microbiome

Laura A. Szalacha

College of Nursing

Statistics

Laurent Calcul

CAS- Chemistry

Proteomics - Natural product chemistry involving extraction, chromatographic separation, purification and structure elucidation of bioactive small molecules

Lindsey 'Les' Shaw

CAS - Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Molecular mechanisms of disease causation in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

Lynn B. (Marty) Martin

COPH

Ecological and evolutionary microbiome science, with a focus on wildlife gut microbiomes as mediators of disease dynamics, stress responses, zoonotic risk, and ecological invasiveness.

Marie Bourgeois

COPH

Lactational transfer/lactobiome and infant gut microbiome

Mark Kindy

Taneja

Inflammation in neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition, our interested in cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases and epigenetic effects.

Monica Uddin

COPH

Stress-related mental disorders

Mya Breitbart

College of Marine Science

Marine Microbiomes, virus and Phages

Niketa Patel

MCOM

Understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and metabolic pathways in neurodegenerative diseases.

Paul Camilo Zalamea

CAS - Integrative Biology

Plant-soil-microbial dynamics

Paula C. Bickford

MCOM

Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease, Biomedical Engineering & Nanomedicine, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroscience

Robert Deschenes

MCOM

Recruiting faculty with microbiome research interests, especially in drug discovery and mechanistic areas. 

Ryan Pace

College of Nursing

Molecular biologist and microbiome scientist working to advance human health and development across the lifespan.

Santosh Kumar Prajapati

MCOM

Shalini Jain

Neurosurgery & Brain repair

Role of microbiome and its metabolites in predicting human health conditions as well as determining the role of different microbiome modifiers on ameliorating these conditions.

Sophie E Darch

College of Medicine

Our lab focuses on multikingdom interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the context of the cystic fibrosis lung. We are interested in understanding the interplay between bacterial, viral and fungal species. 

Srinivas Tipparaju

Taneja

Drug discovery

Stanley Stevens

CAS - Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Proteomics,

Subhra Mohapatra

MCOM

Role of onco-immune environment, which plays a critical role in tumor growth, drug resistance and recurrence.

Susanne Lincoln Gibboney

USF St. Petersburg Morsani

How the microbiome interacts with immune maturation

Tara Randis

COPH

Pathogenesis of Group B Streptococcus in the Neonate

Thao (Tina) Ho

COPH

Anemia and intestinal healthin very low birth weight infants

Thomas Sharp III

Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology / Heart Institute

Cardiovascular Sciences, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Metabolic Regulation and Disorders

Ulla Uusitalo

MCOM

Probiotics, gut microbiome and risk of type 1 diabetes related autoimmunity

Umesh Kumar Jinwal

Taneja

Molecular mechanism of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and other neurological disorders.

Valerie Harwood

CAS - Integrative Biology

Water quality microbiology and microbial ecology

Xingmin Sun

COPH

Focused on the pathogenesis of Clostridioides difficile and the development of novel therapeutics including vaccines to prevent and treat C. difficile infection (CDI)

Yicheng Tu

COPH

Genomics

Yu Sun

Engineering and Computer Science/AI

AI/bioinformatics