CHeRI - Staff
Director | Affiliate Scientists | Post-Doctoral Researchers | Students | Staff
Who We Are: We are a collective of scientists, veterinarians, entomologists and extension specialists from the University of Florida who work to increase health outcomes for captive deer throughout Florida.
Director
Dr. Samantha Wisely
Associate Professor
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
352-846-0645 | wisely@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: Disease ecology, molecular ecology, biogeography, wildlife biology
Affiliate Scientists
Dr. Jason K. Blackburn
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
352-294-7501 | jkblackburn@ufl.edu | @JasonKBlackburn
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Field of Study/Research: Zoonotic diseases, wildlife diseases, disease transmission pathways, ecological niche modeling, spatio-temporal modeling of epidemiology, disease ecology, anthrax transmission dynamics
Dr. Nathan Burkett-Cadena
Assistant Professor
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
772-778-7200 ext. 141 | nburkettcadena@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: Host preference of blood-feeding insects, transmission ecology of arboviruses, pathogen surveillance
Dr. Juan Campos
Wildlife Extension Veterinarian
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences and Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
(352) 294-4327 | jmcampos@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: Extension and outreach programming to deer farmers in Florida
Dr. John Lednicky
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental & Global Health
352-273-9204 | jlednicky@phhp.ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: Microbiology, virology
Dr. Nicole Stacy
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Aquatic Animal Health and Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
352-294-4093 | stacyn@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: clinical pathology of exotic species, especially aquatic species and reptiles, environmental toxicology and wildlife conservation
Dr. Kuttichantran Subramaniam
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
352-215-7278 | kuttichantran@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: Emerging Aquatic Animal Viruses (EAAV)
Dr. Heather Walden
Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
352-294-4125 | hdstockdale@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: parasites of importance to veterinary medicine, the relationships between parasite and host and resulting pathogenesis of disease, parasitic infections or infestations
Dr. Marcelo Wallau
Assistant Professor- Forages Extension Specialist
Agronomy Department
352-260-2254 | mwallau@ufl.edu
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Field of Study/Research: Forage production and management
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Pacharapong (First) Khrongsee
PI: Kuttichantran Subramaniam
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
firstpachar@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Virus phylogeny
Students
An-Chi Cheng
Graduate Student, PhD | Advisor: Juan Campos-Krauer
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
anchicheng@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Microbial ecology, Farmed and wild deer diseases in Florida, Antimicrobial resistance, Wildlife epidemiology
Emily DeRuyter
Graduate Student, PhD | Advisor: John Lednicky
Department of Environmental & Global Health
emilyderuyter@phhp.ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Microbiology, virology
Savannah Grace
Graduate Student, PhD | Advisor: Samantha Wisely
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
savannah.grace@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Wildlife disease ecology and molecular ecology
Miranda Imeri
Graduate Student, PhD | Advisor: Marcelo Wallau
Agronomy Department
imeri.miranda@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Wildlife conservation, interactions of wildlife and domestic animals and humans at the peri-domestic interface
Lily Maxwell
Dual BS-MS Student | Advisor: Juan-Campos-Krauer
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
lillianmaxwell@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Wildlife disease ecology, large animal disease research, deerpox epidemiology
Vilma Montenegro Castro
Graduate Student, PhD | Advisor: Nathan Burkett-Cadena
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
vilma.montenegro@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Culicoides research, sustainable agriculture, pest management strategies, and public education
Morgan Rockwell
Graduate Student, MS | Advisor: Nathan Burkett-Cadena
Department of Entomology
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
morganrockwell@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Vector-host interactions, disease ecology, and deer malaria
Austin Surphlis
Graduate Student, MS | Advisor: Kuttichantran Subramaniam
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
youngsurph@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Microbial ecology, antimicrobial resistance, microbiome resistance, wildlife epidemiology
Staff
Thien Nguyen
Necropsy Technician
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
thien.nguyen@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: zoonoses of wildlife
Braxton Sizemore
Necropsy Technician
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
braxton.sizemore@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: evolutionary biology and disease ecology, diseases of vertebrate communities at agroecological interfaces
Tanise Stenn
Molecular Biology Lab Technician
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
772-778-7200 ext. 161
tanise@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Molecular biology and host preference of blood-meal
Kristen Wilson
Biological Scientist
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
knwilson@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Epidemiology of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, disease ecology using a One Health approach