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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
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