MZT Fellows and Facilitators
Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Fellows:
Salvador Almagro-Moreno, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida
Cheryl Andam, Biological Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY
Tavis Anderson, Virus and Prion Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Angela Arenas, Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station
Justin Bahl, Infectious Disease, University of Georgia
Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Daniel Becker, Biology, University of Oklahoma
Ana Isabel Bento, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington
Paola Boggiatto, Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Patricia Calvo, Chemistry, Kansas State University
Yanling Chang, Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M University, College Station
Lauren Charles, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University
Christopher Cleveland, Population Health, University of Georgia
Nsa Dada, Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Nicholas DeFelice, Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Nicole Eikmeier, Computer Science, Grinnell College
Pilar Fernandez, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University
Hannah Frank, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University
Jenna Guthmiller, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Hayden Hamby, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA/APHIS
Amy Hartman, Center for Vaccine Research, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Crystal Hepp, Pathogen Genomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute
Claudia Herrera, Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health
Matthew Hopken, Rabies Research Project, USDA/APHIS
Diego Huet, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia
Silvie Huijben, Life Sciences, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Joyce Jose, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Kristin Koutmou, Chemistry, University of Michigan
Jason Ladner, Biology, Northern Arizona University
Steven Lakin, Veterinary Services, USDA/APHIS
Kimberly Lehman, Veterinary Services, USDA/APHIS
Charles Lewis, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University
Efrem Lim, Life Sciences, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Hongfu Liu, Computer Science, Brandeis University
Louise Moncla, Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania
Muhammad Muzafar Makhdoomi, National Veterinary Services Laboratories – Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, USDA/APHIS
Jenny Maloney, BARC Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Lab, USDA/ARS
Kezia Manlove, Wildland Resources and Ecology Center, Utah State University
Bethany McGregor, Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Gisselle Medina, USDA/ARS National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)/ Plum Island Animal Disease Center
Angad Mehta, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dana Mitzel, Foreign Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Adela Oliva Chavez, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station
Dan Peach, Savannah River Ecology Lab & Dept. of Infectious Disease, University of Georgia
Sen Pei, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Kim Pepin, National Wildlife Research Center
Alex Perkins, Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Catalina Picasso Risso, Veterinary Preventive Medicine, Ohio State University
Lars Plate, Chemistry and Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Erik Procko, Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Crystal Reid, Center for Veterinary Biologics – Virology, USDA/APHIS
Brenda Rubenstein, Chemistry, Brown University
Audrey Ruple, Public Health, Purdue University
Karla Saavedra-Rodriguez, Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University
Liliana Salvador, Infectious Diseases & Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia
Danae Schulz, Biology, Harvey Mudd College
Michael Schulz, Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Stacey Scroggs, Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Stephanie Seifert, Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
Prashant Singh, Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, Florida State University
Rebecca Smith, Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Timothy Smyser, USDA/APHIS
Avery Strait, Veterinary Services, USDA/APHIS
Troy Sutton, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Yun Tao, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia
Laurene Tetard, Physics / Nanoscience Technology Center, University of Central Florida
Christoph Thaiss, Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Environmental Sciences, Emory University
Heather Walden, Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine, University of Florida
Mark Wilber, Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
William Witola, Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Wu, Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaohu Xia, Chemistry, University of Central Florida
Anni Yang, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
Ahmet Ali Yanik, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sara Zimmer, Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Facilitators:
Sara Cherry, Program for Chemogenomic Discovery, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Dorhout, Vice President for Research, Iowa State University
Matt Erdman, Center for Veterinary Biologics, USDA/APHIS
Roxann Motroni, USDA/ARS
Suelee Robbe-Austerman, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, USDA/APHIS
Zac Schultz, Ohio State University
Wilfred Van der Donk, Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Amy Baker, USDA/ARS
William Wilson, USDA/ARS
Michael Wimberly, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma