Microbiomes Institute
Faculty
Institute Management Team
- Christian Brechot, MD, PhD Director, Infectious Disease & International Medicine
- Hariom Yadav, PhD Director, USF Center for Microbiome Research
- Shyam Mohapatra, PHD, MBA Division Director and Associate Dean, MCOM/ Associate Dean, Graduate Programs, College of Pharmacy
- Yu Sun, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Wayne Guida, PhD Professor, Department of Chemistry/Drug Discovery Program at Moffitt
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Robert Engelman, DVM, PhD
Associate Vice President & Professor, Animal Facilities -
Aline Valle, MS
Instructional / Multimedia Developer - Education and Training -
Gerri Graca
Unit Research Administrator
| Faculty | College/Department | Research Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Alman | College of Public Health | Oral Microbiome and type 1 diabetes |
| Bill Baker | CAS - Chemistry | Drug discovery/marine microbiomes |
| Paula C. Bickford | MCOM | Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease, Biomedical Engineering & Nanomedicine, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroscience |
| Cesar V. Borlongan | Neurosurgery & Brain repair | Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease, Biomedical Engineering & Nanomedicine, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Metabolic Regulation and Disorders, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroscience |
| Mya Breitbart | College of Marine Science | Marine Microbiomes, virus and Phages |
| Laurent Calcul | CAS- Chemistry | Proteomics - Natural product chemistry involving extraction, chromatographic separation, purification and structure elucidation of bioactive small molecules |
| 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. |
| Bala Chandran | MCOM | Kaposi's sarcoma associated human herpesvirus (KSHV) |
| Feng Cheng | COPH | Drug discovery and development using computational methods (including molecular docking, pharmacophore mapping, and machine learning). |
| Sophie Darch | MCOM | Complex bacterial populations and their relationship to disease/ Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| Larry Dishaw | COPH | Immunological Mechanisms of The Gut Microbiome |
| Maureen Groer | College of Nursing | Mother-infant microbiome |
| Ganesh Halade | Heart Institute | chronic inflammation and immune responsive metabolic dysregulation contributes to ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure. |
| Barbara Hansen | MCOM | Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease, Cardiovascular Sciences, Metabolic Regulation and Disorders |
| Valerie Harwood | CAS - Integrative Biology | Water quality microbiology and microbial ecology |
| 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. |
| Hong Yuan (Rays) Jiang | COPH | Genomics |
| Umesh Kumar Jinwal | Taneja | molecular mechanism of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and other neurological disorders. |
| Kami Kim | MCOM | Pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis and malaria |
| Mark Kindy | Taneja | inflammation in neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition, our interested in cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases and epigenetic effects. |
| Jim Leahy | CAS - Chemistry | Drug discovery |
| Subhra Mohapatra | Molecular Medicine | Role of onco-immune environment, which plays a critical role in tumor growth, drug resistance and recurrence. |
| Niketa Patel | MCOM | Understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and metabolic pathways in neurodegenerative diseases. |
| George Philippidis | Patel College of Sustainability | Microbiomes, Red Tide, Omics |
| Stephanie Prescott | College of Nursing | Effects of microbiota perturbations on health, disease, and response to therapy |
| Tara Randis | COPH | Pathogenesis of Group B Streptococcus in the Neonate |
| Jennifer Seminerio-Diehl | MCOM | IBD, leaky gut |
| Andreas Seyfang | MCOM | Membrane permeases and drug delivery |
| Lindsey 'Les' Shaw | CAS - Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology | Molecular mechanisms of disease causation in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) |
| Stanley Stevens | CAS - Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology | Proteomics, |
| Laura A. Szalacha | College of Nursing | Statistics |
| Thao (Tina) Ho | COPH | Anemia and intestinal healthin very low birth weight infants |
| Srinivas Tipparaju | Taneja | Drug discovery |
| Yicheng Tu | COPH | Genomics |
| Monica Uddin | COPH | Stress-related mental disorders |
| Jolan Walter | MCOM | allergic diseases, immunodeficiencies and immune dysregulation |
| Elizabeth Wood | MCOM - Core Facility | Proteomics |
| Xingmin Sun | COPH | Focused on the pathogenesis ofClostridioides difficileand the development of novel therapeutics including vaccines to prevent and treat C. difficile infection (CDI) |
| Paul Camilo Zalamea | CAS - Integrative Biology | Plant-soil-microbial dynamics |