EPI research day will feature 74 posters

February 8, 2011

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The fourth annual University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute Research Day 2011 on Thursday will exhibit 74 posters featuring interdisciplinary research spanning novel and re-emerging infectious diseases affecting plants, humans, animals and food safety.

Keynote speakers include Frederick M. Ausubel, a professor of genetics in the department of molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Lonnie King, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University.

UF professors, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students, as well as collaborators from the Florida Medical Entomology Lab in Vero Beach, Fla., and the Florida Department of Health will display their posters on the front lawn of the Emerging Pathogens Institute on the UF campus. Presentations will be made in the auditorium (Room 101) of the nearby Cancer/Genetics Research Complex.

Event hours are 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with speakers from 1:15 to 3:30 p.m.