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
https://wec.ifas.ufl.edu/people/wec-faculty/samantha-wisely/
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
http://geog.ufl.edu/people/faculty/blackburn/
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
https://fmel.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/n-burkett-cadena/
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
jmcampos@ufl.edu
https://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/about-the-college/faculty-directory/juan-manuel-campos-krauer/
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
http://egh.phhp.ufl.edu/personnel/faculty-2/primary-faculty/john-lednicky-phd/>
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
http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/about-the-college/faculty-directory/nicole-stacy/
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
https://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/about-the-college/faculty-directory/kuttichantran-subramaniam/
Field of Study/Research: Emerging Aquatic Animal Viruses (EAAVs)
Dr. Heather Walden
Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
352-294-4125
hdstockdale@ufl.edu
http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/about-the-college/faculty-directory/heather-walden/
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
http://agronomy.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/marcelo-wallau/
Field of Study/Research: Forage production and management
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Agustin IE Quaglia
Postdoctoral Associate
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
aquaglia@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Culicoides assemblages change at time and habitat scale, the way midges are using host as food resource
Dr. Pedro Viadanna
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
pedro@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Discovery and characterization of infectious diseases impacting wildlife and aquatic mammals
Students
An-Chi Cheng
Graduate Student
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
Savannah Grace
Graduate Student
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
savannah.grace@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Wildlife disease ecology and molecular ecology
Vilma Montenegro Castro
Graduate Student
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
vilma.montenegro@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Culicoides research, sustainable agriculture, pest management strategies, and public education
Daniel Tuzzolino
Graduate Student
Department of Entomology
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
dtuzzolino1@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Vector-host interactions, disease ecology, and Culicoides as vectors of disease
Morgan Rockwell
Graduate Student
Department of Entomology
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
morganrockwell@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Vector-host interactions, disease ecology, and deer malaria
Staff
Megan Cox
Necropsy Technician
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
cox.mh@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: One Health, wildlife ecology, and epidemiology of wildlife disease
Hilda Lynn
Laboratory Technician
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
hclynn@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Midge Identification
Jeremy Orange
Biological Scientist
Department of Geography
jporange@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Spatial Epidemiology and Ecology
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
Zoe White
Biological Scientist
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
zseganish@ufl.edu
Field of Study/Research: Microbiome assay and analysis
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
