UF Geography was well represented at this year’s Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) Research Day.
Simrik Bhandari, a first year Masters student working in the Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) lab, presented a poster on the spatial patterns of dengue incidence in Nepal.
Gavriella Hecht, a second-year PhD student in the Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) Lab, presented a poster on research assessing the compound vulnerability landscape of mosquito-borne disease in Florida.
At the event, Tan Luong was awarded third place in the pre-doctoral poster competition for his presentation, “One Health on the edge, results from a network analysis of policies governing human health and animal health planning in Vietnam.”
Also presenting work at this event:
- Catherine Lippi presented, “Assessing the value and retention of knowledge from an online tick identification and tick-borne disease management course for the southeastern United States.”
- Ian Pshea-Smith presented, “Spatiotemporal patterns of three mosquito species in Haiti, 2018-2019.”
- Aryn O’Dell presented, “Evaluating livestock commingling in areas of sustained brucellosis risk in Kazakhstan.”
- Morgan Metrailer presented, “Exploratory spatial data and phylogenetic analysis of bacillus anthraces diversity within and between outbreaks across northern Vietnam, 2008-2023.”
- Treenate Jiranantasak presented, “Toxin and capsule production by bacillus cereus biovar anthraces influence pathogenicity in macrophages and animal models.”
- Dr. Sadie Ryan presented, “Mapping geographic and demographic shifts for container breeding mosquito-borne disease transmission suitability in Central and South America in a warming world.”
See more at epi.ufl.edu/events/epi-research-day/.