Emerging Pathogens Institute
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Research. Education. Outreach. From the molecular level to ecosystems, the EPI will lead the fight against infectious diseases.
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New research: Dr. Sadie ๐ฎ๐ก๐ฆ ๐บ Ryan (she/her) and colleagues find an overall trend of increased risk and geographic shifts among mosquito-borne diseases in Central and South America
journals.plos.org/climate/articlโฆ
Dr. Anna Stewart Ibarra
Summer doesn't just mean mosquitoes. Follow along with First Coast News as Norman Beatty explores a North #Florida home and provides recommendations on how homeowners can protect their homes from #KissingBugs .
firstcoastnews.com/video/life/aniโฆ
Excited to share our new findings on the role of metabolic immaturity and breastmilk bile acids in governing neonatal vulnerability to norovirus diarrhea: Stephanie N. Langel Quyen Marco.Grodzki UF Microbiology University of Florida Research biorxiv.org/content/10.110โฆ
We're proud that our film 'The Kissing Bug Doctors of Florida' is an official selection for the World Health Organization (WHO) #Film4Health Film Festival!
The film tells the story of how Norman Beatty and his team at Emerging Pathogens Institute are working to #endtheneglect of #Chagas
๐ฝ๏ธ youtube.com/watch?v=WTdIYOโฆ
EPI member and UF PHHP faculty Dr. Ben Anderson recently discussed reverse zoonoses with Discover Magazine.
โIn the case of the flu, we know there are some strains that are able to bind to human receptors, canine receptors, and or feline receptors,โ he said.
discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/zโฆ
A recent study with EPI member Dr. Burt Singer, in collaboration with researchers from Yale School of Public Health, explores the #PublicHealth risks that changes in #healthcare coverage can pose.
Read the paper to learn more about their findings ๐: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10โฆ.
A new paper that combines antigenic analysis of #dengue with 2 decades of hospital data in Thailand teases apart how different combinations of serotypes shape the risk of severe secondary infections in children. Henrik Salje Derek Cummings Lin Wang GeneticsCambridge scim.ag/6Km
Newly published!
UF Infectious Diseases & Immunology UFVetMed Emerging Pathogens Institute
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33โฆ
Enjoy this version of our mapping of climate driven potential dengue transmission in the The Economist, part of a really scary account of changing dengue in Latin America.
economist.com/the-americas/2โฆ
Read this piece! So grateful to have chatted with Roxanne Scott (Roxanne L. Scott) for this astonishing New York Amsterdam News piece about vector borne disease risk at the intersection of redlining and climate change.
UF Geography Emerging Pathogens Institute Florida Climate Inst
Hosting incredible speakers like Jesse Shapiro from McGill University is what makes the EPI Seminar Series stand out. ๐ซ
Missed his seminar? Visit our website to watch the recording๐: go.ufl.edu/arqia23.
โWhat weโve discovered will be a pathway to new diagnostics, a pathway to better think about antibiotic resistance mitigation,โ said EPI member & UF PHHP UF Medicine faculty Dr. Eric Nelson.
UF Health covers his recent study published in Science Magazine.
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Delighted to have presented my research seminar on 'Building surveillance, mitigation, and humanitarian strategies: examples for diseases of avocado, cassava, potato and sweetpotato' at UF/IFAS Plant Pathology Department on April 16, 2024.
Thanks to all who joined Karen Garrett Emerging Pathogens Institute The Global Food Systems Institute at UF IFAS
LOOOVE hearing from Aaron Plex on his cool work aggregating a massive dataset of diseases and hosts at a global scale, nice to see the power of such a dataset for wheat as a nifty case study Karen Garrett
#IEW13 #sketchnotes
A classic field-spanning talk by Karen Garrett (and presented by Jacobo Robledo) on how we can use the R2M toolbox to model and adapt for fast emerging epidemics in critical food systems around the world, always inspiring to hear about Karen's work!
#IEW13 #sketchnotes
A new paper from members of Karen Garrett provides a framework for addressing how the multifaceted relationships among these elements threaten plant health,local and global economies, and food security.
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