Department: Department of Environmental and Global Health
Afsar Ali
Research Associate Professor
Email:
aali@epi.ufl.edu
Department: MD-CHILD HEALTH RES INSTITUTE
Eric J Nelson M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor (tenured)
Phone: (352) 273-5400
Email:
eric.nelson@ufl.edu
Dr. Afsar Ali, Research Associate Professor for EGH and the Emerging Pathogens Institute, and Dr. Eric Nelson, Assistant Professor, were published in PNAS for their research in “Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae evolution and establishment of reservoirs in aquatic ecosystems.” In the article from EPI below, read more about his research and see Meer T. Alam, a biological scientist working in Dr. Ali’s laboratory, collecting surface water in Haiti for the isolation and characterization of cholera pathogen.
Read PNAS paper here.